The Eagles' Struggles: Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts

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00:00We're going to start by talking about what makes me happy.

00:06The problems with the Philadelphia Eagles and how the media is now getting to Nick Sirianni

00:11and it only took two weeks.

00:12Well, yes, and I think what's happening, okay, I didn't know we're going to go with Sirianni,

00:16but let me start with that because I could give you some insight.

00:19So there's been this thought around the NFL that Nick Sirianni is the guy that keeps his

00:24emotions in check and doesn't always handle himself the right way or how other teams think

00:29he should handle himself.

00:30And I don't think there's some people around the league very sorry that he was lost on

00:34Monday night to the Falcons in Philly at Lincoln Financial Stadium, a stadium you've been into

00:38before.

00:39We've seen you there.

00:40But that's one thing.

00:41But the Eagles now with Jalen Hurts, Scott, I know that Hurts threw the ball to Saquon

00:46Barkley.

00:47Barkley dropped it.

00:48It should have been a touchdown.

00:50That's not why they lost.

00:52Jalen Hurts has this really bad habit going back to last season.

00:57When he's not under pressure sometimes, I don't know why he rolls to his right.

01:01He kills plays where the play should have been to a tight end, Dallas Scott or to a

01:07receiver, and he doesn't throw the football.

01:10He rolls to his right and waits and waits and waits, and he throws it in completion

01:13and the fans go, oh, that was a bad play, bad as I know.

01:17The quarterback has to stop moving when he's not supposed to move.

01:20The ball supposed to be out quickly and he doesn't do it.

01:23So this is a, you and I are going to talk about this from coast to coast, okay?

01:27The Eagles are what we call a national team.

01:29They're a marquee team.

01:30A lot has been expected of this team.

01:32Okay, I thought they'd be 11 and 6.

01:34They still have a very good shot to do it.

01:36That's a bad division, but Hurts has got to play better.

01:39The defense, we'll talk about them later in the show.

01:41We'll talk about it briefly right now.

01:43It didn't play well.

01:44Kirk Cousins, dude, Scott, you could have come out of retirement and got a touchdown

01:48late against that Eagles defense.

01:49They were terrible against Atlanta on that last drive.

01:52But Jalen Hurts has got to play better.

01:54When guys are open, he's got to hit them.

01:56This is just not good quarterback play.

01:59He was better against Green Bay, but not great.

02:01Widely inconsistent last season.

02:04We got to look at it.

02:05The Eagles have a quarterback problem right now.

02:06He's got to play better.

02:08That's one thing we got to keep an eye on, Scott.

02:09He didn't play well.

02:11And they face a buzzsaw in New Orleans this week.

02:14So they went to the Super Bowl with him.

02:17And then everyone was higher than a kite on this guy that he was the next great quarterback.

02:22And since that Super Bowl, he's been almost disastrous.

02:27And so have they.

02:28Last year was definitely a bloodletting.

02:31And now the game the other night was embarrassing because 95% of the betters were on the Eagles.

02:36I was on the Falcons in five and a half, hate to tell you.

02:39But here's the deal.

02:42I agree about Hurts is overrated.

02:45Fair enough?

02:46You didn't say that.

02:47I did.

02:48He's overrated.

02:49Secondly, his pass to Barkley was on the money.

02:52Barkley dropped the ball.

02:53He didn't drop it.

02:54Yeah, they would have won, obviously, if he would have caught it.

02:56That's not Hurts' fault.

02:57No, it's not.

02:58But, Scott, I'm telling you, guys are, despite not having A.J. Brown, who, by the way, is

03:02not going to play this week.

03:03He didn't practice today.

03:04And they have another injury, which I'm going to add, which I just got a minute ago.

03:08We'll talk about in a second.

03:10But A.J. Brown has got a hamstring injury.

03:12I get that.

03:13John Dotson filled in.

03:14He had one target for six catches, one catch for six yards.

03:18That's not good enough.

03:19Was Washington right about him?

03:21Well, my understanding is Washington didn't want him.

03:25This new staff was not happy with him at all when they had him.

03:30He was drafted by another general manager.

03:32Was it Adam Peters?

03:33So the fact, Scott, that they traded Johan Dotson in their own division, what does that

03:38tell you?

03:39But the Eagles took him like he was some stud that they were stealing.

03:46You would have thought, when they got him, that they knew what they were doing.

03:51It's like Barkley being traded from the Giants, except Barkley's good and Dotson's done nothing.

03:56And he never did anything in Washington either.

03:58Yeah.

03:59He had a decent rookie season.

04:00Remember, he was a former first-round pick, who the Eagles liked two years ago.

04:03He's a college player.

04:04I know.

04:05He's got to step up.

04:06They need him because Brown's got the hamstring injury.

04:08And this just came in.

04:09T.J. Garner Johnson, one of their starting safeties, has a foot injury.

04:12Didn't work today.

04:13He's had a history of injury.

04:14Pretty good football player.

04:16They're not very deep in the safety position.

04:18That is a bad sign for them.

04:20And they play New Orleans this weekend.

04:22But look, it's a very bad division.

04:24The NFL's worst right now.

04:26On paper, it certainly looks like that.

04:28They should win the division.

04:30But this team is not as good as people thought.

04:32They have been on a downward slide.

04:34Let's not forget, losing six out of seven.

04:37They got hammered.

04:38You and I talked about that many times.

04:40They got embarrassed at Tampa Bay.

04:42They didn't play great week one.

04:44I give them credit for fighting back and winning that game in a knockdown, dragout fight in Brazil.

04:48This game, at home at the Lanky, you got to beat Atlanta.

04:51Atlanta didn't look good.

04:53They looked good late.

04:54But man, that was a bad performance, and one they're not going to forget.

04:57That was a tough loss, but it's going to get harder for them in New Orleans this week.

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