The Philadelphia Eagles’ 2026 season is cooked, just six weeks in, and the whole mess surrounding Jalen Hurts’ blood clots and that ill-fated trip to London looks like the final, ugly chapter. The narrative around how much sleep Hurts actually got before taking the field in England kept changing by the hour. He didn’t play on zero sleep, but reports say he only managed a few hours just before the game. Honestly, the decision to even play him in that state remains a seriously questionable one.
This London Fiasco Was A Bad Look
Let’s be real, these international games are awful. Seriously, they need to stop. Playing football is dangerous and exhausting enough without forcing guys to fly for five or six hours over an ocean, then try to re-acclimate their body clocks, and risk their health. What happens if a player gets injured seriously enough to need a hospital stay? They’re stuck doing it in a foreign country where a trans-continental flight might not even be safe for days. That’s probably exactly what should have happened with Hurts, but that’s a whole different battle for the league and the NFLPA to figure out. Right now, it just feels like the Eagles totally messed this whole thing up. We’re watching a Super Bowl championship roster crumble, and it feels like the end of an era.
A Disastrous Season With More Questions Than Answers
This 2026 season is a full-blown disaster, and there are no playoffs in sight. Even if they somehow manage to win the NFC East with a losing record, another title is completely out of the question. The offensive line as we know it? Gone. The wide receiver room is missing that game-breaking superstar, even with DeVonta Smith out there. Saquon Barkley can’t run behind this line, can’t stay healthy, and they’re down to RB4. There’s literally one tight end left. The offensive coordinator looks totally overmatched. The defense is healthier, but it’s still not healthy. Vic Fangio is probably retiring after this season, and honestly, who could blame him? What happens to that side of the ball once he’s gone? It’s tough to imagine any head coach sustaining a winning record with all these injuries and an incomplete roster. Maybe that buys Nick Sirianni some time, or maybe it’s just the excuse Howie Roseman and Jeffrey Lurie need to tear it all down and bring in a head coach who can also call plays as the offensive coordinator.
What’s Next For Hurts?
All these are fascinating questions that will get answered eventually, but the biggest one of all is still Jalen Hurts. After this blood clot incident, it’s getting harder to see a future with him under center in 2027. It’s not because Hurts is a bad quarterback, because he clearly isn’t. But even when things looked their most optimistic, there were always questions about whether the Eagles would hitch their wagon to Hurts for the long term after this season. His contract extension only just got going, and now this. There’s a lot to sort out in Philadelphia, and the future looks incredibly murky.
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Originally reported by Bleeding Green Nation.
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