“He wants to be great,” Barkley told The Athletic. “He’ll do anything to be great.”

Jalen Hurts, in his first game since suffering a concussion on Dec. 22, started hot by completing his first six passes. Then he went cold by missing seven straight before recovering in time to lead the Eagles to a hard-fought 22-10 win Sunday.

Jalen Hurts felt little need to defend his pedestrian numbers in his first game in three weeks because of a concussion.

Chase Daniel breaks down what Jalen Hurts needs to do for the Philadelphia Eagles to pick up a Divisional Round win over the Los Angeles Rams in the City of Brotherly Love.

But it's hard to ignore Hurts' 43-12 record as a starter since the Eagles were 2-5 midway through the 2021 season. The Eagles have gone 14-3 in both 2022 and this season, tying the best regular-season records in franchise history.

Jalen Hurts knows the numbers everyone talks about: 131 passing yards, 5.3 yards per attempt, 21 attempts, six passing first downs, seven attempts over 10+ air yards, one attempt over 25+ air yards. He's not oblivious.

On the latest episode of the “Scoop City” podcast, we touched on a point that Chase has been making for a while now: Jalen Hurts might be a good quarterback, but he isn’t throwing like one right now.

The passing game against the Packers could've been more sharp but Jalen Hurts knows his "role in each game will be different" to get the job done.