the eyes of anybody who pays attention to football elevated.
Once the team made the commitment to go, get his close
friend, AJ Brown
last Thursday. Here's Jalen hurd's from yesterday, talking
about having support from the likes of GM how Heroes men as
evidence by the trade and head coach, Nick suriani.
This would they say, you know, I'm saying like
it's understood,
you know.
It's my opportunity. It's my team.
It's pretty much what it is. You know,
it's my team. So I'm ready to go. And the work has been put
in to go out there and Achieve with want to achieve. And
I think
this being the time for us to
come together and spend time together and do all those things.
We're still building,
you know, we're not going out there and playing the game
tomorrow. So there's always work to be put in in any day
that
there is a work put in its add, a missed opportunity. Miss. Oh,
that's just Mentality of us,
and everybody knows that. And that's every individual on this
team.
Yeah, I mean look that's the right attitude and
there's no questioning jail in hertz. Leadership is
intangibles the things that you bring to the table? That
elevate the players around you? The question is, can his play
Elevate to the level where he's regarded as
top half of the league. Yeah. He's not top half the lake and
it's hard to get into the top half of the list. You see,
Jimmy G, can't get into the top half of the league, right?
There's a lot of great quarterbacks now and I,
I
I have been toying with this idea that the Eagles are
attracted to the notion of having a quarterback. Who's
your franchise guy? But he's not a franchise guy that you're
paying 50 million a year to
so you can have money for AJ Brown and other players. But if
AJ Browns presence helps jail and hurts play better. That's
when he puts himself in line for a better contract. So
the better the team is the better, the quarterback plays
the mortar, the quarterback is going to expect it. It
it becomes It's an endless cycle that keeps spinning and
turning. And and if you have a really good team, ipso facto.
We have a really good quarterback, even if we
deliberately of engineer, the team around a quarterback who
without all this help.
Without all these great players that we can afford because
the quarterback isn't sucking up a big piece of the salary cap. He
wouldn't be as good. No, you're right. It's a cycle though, you
know, but yeah, you have 23 years like that where they are
good and you go
to the playoffs and the quarterback whether
you know, he's played extraordinary Superstar, whatever.
And base, yes, is going to go away. This guy's good. We're
going to the playoffs. We got something here. So yeah, that's
where it gets interesting, and Jalen hurts is I, you know,
I think one of those guys that's going to be in that
conversation.
I think you said it right Mike. I mean, we're always talking
about Jalen hurd's, the human being, and how impressive he
is. And that goes pretty much like standard protocol down
the line for everybody, you talk to in Philadelphia.
So that's where it's like,
I think it's easy for them to back him because they know he's
going to do the right thing. Is work the right way. Bring
the team together. Like he's talking about never miss a day
or an opportunity to get better,
and that's why you love that guy
to be your quarterback. And
you can deal with the guy like that to be your quarterback.
Okay? Yeah, he's got some issues throwing but he's got
all these other things that check the box that we really,
really like. And the throwing part. We've seen guys, get
fixed tweak, a few mechanics, get better and better.
So they're hoping for that and they're going to continue to
work on that with him. And we Seen the improvements. We've
seen improvements. We just know
it's not where it needs to be quite yet. That's what
the playoff game. Pretty much answered for us. Last year
against Tampa Bay.
Yeah, and next step is getting back to the playoffs and
getting a win. Maybe winning the division and the egos are
a team that
when you look at the off seasons of their competitors,
in the NFC East, there are team that that isn't resting on
their Laurels.
Isn't trying to just tread water. They're trying to get
better at a time of the NFC is wide, open wide open. We've
seen the, hey, you know, I hadn't even thought of that
because it happened so fast
last week during the draft
after all the movement of great players.
In the NFC to the AFC. We had to go from the AFC to the NFC
on Thursday. Yeah, Hollywood Brown and AJ Brown reversing
that Trend. Although it's not enough to really change it yet.
It's not, it's not,
it's not moving the needle back the other way, but it is
something that allows the Eagles to say.
Hey, the Cowboys have been struggling to keep their team
together there on paper, worse than they were
last year. Washington, who the hell knows the Giants
work-in-progress the Eels, have an opportunity to win that
division.