Daily News | The Eagles’ hype train is in overdrive. Carson Wentz is a reminder to apply the brake.
Jalen Hurts has had 21 games now as the Eagles’ starting quarterback, and their 24-7 victory over the Vikings on Monday night was his finest hour in those 21. He threw for 333 yards and a touchdown, ran for 57 yards and two more TDs, was sharp and commanding in every regard. It was a brilliant performance, and it was almost enough to make you forget that he wasn’t supposed to be the Eagles’ quarterback Monday night. The guy they face this Sunday at FedEx Field was.
Go back to Oct. 23, 2017, for instance, when Wentz threw four touchdown passes for the Eagles in a 34-24 win over Washington. If you had said, in the immediate aftermath of that game, that the Eagles would win the Super Bowl that season without Wentz, that their triumph would in many respects precipitate his fall from grace with the franchise and the city, that Wentz would soon be regarded as a disappointment and one of Philadelphia’s great sports villains, people wouldn’t have believed you.
It’s easy for people to get swept up in the good vibes they feel after a decisive Eagles victory, for local TV anchors to start wearing Kelly green face paint and reporters to take on the tone of cheerleaders. It’s easy to make declarations likeIt happens all the time, and it’s natural and understandable. McNabb finds Freddie Mitchell on fourth-and-26. Michael Vick leads a miraculous comeback at the Meadowlands. Wentz escapes a sack like he’s Houdini in a box.
And who knows? Perhaps the Eagles will remain at this level, playing this well, all season. Perhaps Hurts will demonstrate, beyond any doubt, that when the Eagles drafted him to be their backup quarterback, they did more than ignite the chain of events that led to Wentz’s departure, that they actually stumbled into their latest superstar.
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