The Philadelphia Eagles are looking to repeat as Super Bowl champions. However, this year’s Eagles team has been miles away from the dominant group that fans watched play a season ago. Most notably, things have been drastically different for the Eagles on offense.
Earlier in the season, the Eagles were winning games, but star wide receiver A.J. Brown was extremely unhappy with his reduced role in the offense and made it clear to anyone who would listen how he felt about things.
In the last three games, including Monday night’s game against the Los Angeles Chargers, quarterback Jalen Hurts has been able to get Brown the ball. Unfortunately for the team, all three of those games have been losses.
On Monday, the offensive rhythm really seemed to suffer from the overreliance on throwing the ball, as Hurts threw a staggering four interceptions in the game. One interception in particular, in a play where Hurts briefly recovered a fumble from the defensive back before fumbling himself, put the quarterback in the record books for the worst of reasons.
“Per my data, we all did in fact just witness a moment of NFL history. Jalen Hurts becomes the first QB since the NFL starting tracking turnovers (1933) to record two turnovers on the same play. He then proceeded to throw another interception two plays later,” one data-based Twitter account tweeted during the game
Fans reacted to the brutal news on social media.
“Eagles fans will still say he’s top 20 in the league,” one fan wrote on Twitter.
“We certainly witnessed a historic moment in NFL history. There’s no doubt about it,” someone else added.
“And another, and another, and another,” another fan added mockingly.
It’ll be interesting to see if the Brown, Hurts and the team can work out a way to keep everyone engaged whilst also winning games.
About Qwame Skinner
Qwame Skinner has loved both writing and sports his entire life. In addition to his sports coverage at Comeback Media, Qwame writes novels, and his debut; The First Casualty, an adult fantasy, is out now.