Eagles fans will love analyst’s hot take on Jalen Hurts, Nick Sirianni

The Philadelphia Eagles are on the verge of an all-time run, with two Super Bowl appearances in three years and a championship banner about to be unveiled at The Linc.

But when it comes to the distribution of credit from the national media, the Eagles differ from the NFL’s two most recent dynasties —  the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots.

There’s no dynasty talk without a dominant QB-coach combo. If Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are the OGs, Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid are the modern-day version.

As for Jalen Hurts and Nick Sirianni? That’s where it gets complicated.

Philly’s tandem has the numbers, just not the respect. Per The Athletic, no NFL coach since the millennium can match Sirianni’s 48-20 record in the regular season. He’s won 46 of those games with Hurts under center, but you wouldn't know it. Hurts is constantly downgraded as a fringe top-10 quarterback in the league, and Sirianni is often clowned for riding GM Howie Roseman’s coattails with the NFL’s best roster.

It will take more than one Super Bowl for Philly’s underrated tandem to start getting the respect they deserve, but one former NFL quarterback jumped the gun with a take that Eagles fans will love (and Chiefs and Patriots fans will loathe).

ESPN analyst drops bold take on Eagles' Jalen Hurts-Nick Sirianni tandem

During Thursday morning’s episode of Get Up on ESPN, the panel was discussing Sirianni when analyst Dan Orlovsky unleashed a take that no one saw coming. (Adam Schefter actually laughed and dropped his pen.)

Specifically, the group was riffing off Sirianni’s comments that “I didn’t know it was banner night,” and “We won’t be out for that,” regarding Thursday night's season kick-off game against the Dallas Cowboys.

This is obviously just Sirianni’s schtick. The Eagles will be on the field when the banner goes up, with the cameras on the national broadcast focused squarely on their faces (along with Jerry Jones). It’s a pregame tradition for the reigning Super Bowl champions dating back to the early 2000s, when Belichick used to say “The circus is in town.”

Sirianni put his own Belichickian spin on it… and Orlovsky took it to a whole new level.

“Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts are the modern day Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. Just total alignment. I remember Belichick and Brady constantly saying stuff and being like, ‘There’s no way you actually think that or feel that way, or operate like that.’ Jalen’s just robotic, and maniacal and very focused. Not out in the public, like Tom was when he was playing. And Sirianni — there’s no way that he doesn’t know, but he says it and you’re like, ‘Maybe he didn’t really know.’ Like, the same way that coach Belichick would say stuff and we’d be like, ‘There’s no way that you think that way.’ It just feels like their alignment and the way that they’re so hyper-focused in blocking out the noise — it’s very Belichick/Brady-like.”

This has to be a refreshing take for Eagles fans (and probably a funny one). But Orlovsky does make some valid points. Brady was a football psycho, to put it lightly. He was obsessed with winning and demanded excellence from his teammates, and Hurts shares some of those traits.

He refused to put on his Super Bowl LIX ring during Philly’s ceremony this summer; Brady famously gifted his first championship ring to his father. It was always about the "next one," and Hurts's same obsession with winning is a good thing for Philadelphia. Sirianni’s approach bears some resemblance to Belichick in specific ways, particularly in terms of withholding information on injuries and emphasizing the importance of being a team, while ignoring outside noise.

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Fans are going to lose their minds over Orlovsky’s comments on Hurts and Sirianni, but was he comparing resumes or personalities? If it’s the latter, he actually makes a decent argument.