Ex-National Champion Joins the Jalen Hurts Hate Club, Questions the Eagles QB’s Credibility Despite Super Bowl Run

Former NFL nose tackle Breiden Fehoko hinted that the football fraternity is slowly realizing that Jalen Hurts' limitations as a quarterback.

Ex-National Champion Joins the Jalen Hurts Hate Club, Questions the Eagles QB’s Credibility Despite Super Bowl Run

Jalen Hurts (Image via IMAGO)

Two trips to the Super Bowl, including a victory, should have solidified Jalen Hurts‘ legacy as a top-tier NFL quarterback. Just 14 months after the landmark victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, Hurts has yet to overcome the lingering negative publicity surrounding him.

With two years remaining on his massive five-year deal, which he signed in 2023, Hurts has a tough task to turn the negative narrative in his favor. Only then will he gain the leverage of once again becoming the highest-paid quarterback, surpassing Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys.

Earning money is important for Hurts, for any other athlete, for that matter. At the end of the day, winning trophies is what matters most. Hurts did not have it easy when he was in college, playing for the Crimson Tide.

He went 26-2 as the starter, but as soon as the coaches saw a dip in his form, they replaced him with Tua Tagovailoa. Hurts sat on the bench and saw Tua deliver a national title. Although he received a winner’s medal, it was not the way he had wanted to become a college champion. So, next year, he transferred to Oklahoma. In his lone year with the Sooners, Hurts won 12 games and racked up a total of 52 touchdowns.

Still, the scouts did not consider him a first-round draft pick. The Eagles took him in the second round. Since then, he’s steadily improved as a quarterback, guiding them to a Super Bowl win on his second attempt.

With a 57-25 record, five winning seasons out of six, a Super Bowl MVP award, a second-team All-Pro selection, and three Pro Bowl appearances, he should be right up there with Patrick Mahomes, Matthew Stafford, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, and Joe Burrow as one of the best quarterbacks of this generation. But a lot of people in the football community don’t agree. They want to see more from Hurts.

Recently, Lavonte David, a former linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, said something about Hurts that got a lot of people talking online. Former nose tackle Breiden Fehoko backed up David’s comments with a harsh comment aimed at the Eagles’ quarterback.

Aye, man. It’s going to be a long off-season for Eagles fans. The world is seeing the truth about Jalen Hurts.

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Hurts is in this tough spot because of how the 2025 season ended. As defending champions, the Eagles were tipped to go back-to-back in the Niners’ own backyard. Ironically, it was the Niners who sent them packing in the wildcard round, even with key players sidelined by injuries.

Ex-National Champion Joins the Jalen Hurts Hate Club, Questions the Eagles QB's Credibility Despite Super Bowl Run
Jalen Hurts (Image via IMAGO)

The brass took Kevin Patullo out of the offensive coordinator’s job as a result. Hurts stayed calm through it all, even though critics blamed him all year for letting the offense down with poor performances. He did score 34 touchdowns, but the Eagles were third from last in YAC (yards after catch), with 1365 total yards in 17 games and 4.3 yards per throw. This shows that the Eagles’ passing game wasn’t as good as that of the defending champion. Washington and Tennessee had better numbers, which adds to the story.

Because of the kind of situation Hurts finds himself in, the Eagles’ front office urged him to improve and inject more energy into the offense. According to a piece from ESPN, if he fails in his task, then he risks losing a second paycheck.

A team source at that time described the state of affairs as a “disaster” and indicated Hurts was part of the issue, noting that whatever personality traits had rubbed people the wrong way before had grown since the championship win.

Colin Cowherd, who has been critical of Hurts in the past, used the ESPN investigation as an opportunity to share his unfiltered thoughts on the situation. Cowherd compared the while thing with Russell Wilson‘s final years with the Seattle Seahawks. Cowherd said:

Where the quarterback, who has critics, is getting all the credit and the roster’s stacked, and when they do infrequently lose, the roster gets the blame, and the quarterback doesn’t.

Hurts has to work with a new offensive coordinator for the sixth time in his career. He has been dealing with problems his whole life, so this shouldn’t bother him too much.

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