If someone told you Jalen Hurts would throw two touchdown passes, engineer three 70-yard TD drives, pass for nearly 300 yards, put up 34 points against a defense that was top-10 in 2023 and rally the Eagles to a win 5,000 miles from home in a game where they trailed four separate times, you’d probably be OK with that.
Hurts really did do some good things Friday night in the season opener, but they were to a great extent overshadowed by a couple inexplicable mistakes.
He threw two interceptions that weren’t the result of incredible defensive plays but simply poor decisions, and he could have thrown two more.
But in his 52nd career start he did enough good things to help the Eagles win a very difficult season opener against a team that was about a minute from the NFC Championship Game last year.
Nick Sirianni pointed to Hurts’ work …