Jalen Hurts holds two weekly press conferences with the media who cover the Eagles, including one session immediately after each game, and they offer an insight into the man who would be King of Philadelphia. Hurts does not make any jokes during his press conferences. He doesn’t engage in playful give-and-take with any of the beat writers or TV reporters. We threaten to feed him “rat poison,” after all, and there is no joshing to be done with someone you perceive will do you harm.
No, there is no levity of any kind. There is only Hurts’ intense humorlessness and seriousness as he delivers each of his answers, balancing praise of his teammates against his reluctance to say anything too revealing. He could say more, if he chose to, but he doesn’t.
What those interactions do reveal is Hurts’ ability to be disciplined in a setting in which it would be easy for him not to be disciplined. His words are considered, and he is in control at all times. He isn’t glib. He doesn’t display any outward anger. He measures what he is about to say or do before he says or does it. No one has yet listened to or walked away from a Jalen Hurts media availability and remarked, Can you believe he said that?
