I don’t particularly care if you think Jalen Hurts is the Eagles’ quarterback of the future, a system product, an ascending star, a future mayor à la Ed Rendell or worth every penny of the five-year, $255 million extension he signed Monday. Those are all opinions based on conditional factors that are currently out of Hurts’s control, and the control of the organization he is now tied to long term.
There is a world in which Hurts will lift three Lombardi Trophies in his lifetime. There is also a world in which he’ll be excised from the organization’s plans, just like Carson Wentz. We’ll see which one we are living in.
The indisputable take at this moment is the Eagles did a bit of good business. They didn’t have another option nearly as enticing at the position, so they signed their existing one before Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert signed their deals and cannonballed into the market like a space shuttle landing in the ocean.
