Eagles Reportedly Have Growing 'Frustration' With Jalen Hurts

The numbers have shown pretty consistently that the Philadelphia Eagles are at their worst when starting QB Jalen Hurts throws the ball more often.

With the exception of their October win over Minnesota, the Eagles' two worst games of the season have come when Hurts has thrown the most and ran the least. Both came in losses to the New York Giants and the Denver Broncos.

For Eagles insider Derrick Gunn, the frustration that he's hearing and seeing from the organization is that there seems to be a disconnect between what's happening in practice and what winds up happening on the field. It goes from being the gameplan during the weekday to "his game" on Sundays.

“Those things that [get] dissected on film [and] during practice, those things that are talked about among the quarterback coach, the offensive coordinator, the head coach, it has been constantly discussed all season long. Yet, when they transition to the field on a football game, [Hurts] plays his game. Not the game the coaches want him to play. He plays his game. I don’t think you can get out of that mode at this particular point. I think it’s what we’re going to have to watch all season long, is him playing his game," Gunn explained on The Seth Joyner Show.

Gunn explained that Hurts has become too focused on finding the wide open receiver as opposed to trying to thread the ball into tighter windows as most quarterbacks do. As a result, coaches are struggling to make him more versatile with his throwing and avoiding bad habits from forming.

“You look at a lot of quarterbacks, they’re going to sling it,” Gunn said. “They’re going to trying to throw it through the eye of the needle. Sometimes you just have to take that chance. That’s not his game. That’s why he stands back there, a lot of the time he’s patting the ball, patting the ball, and it throws the timing of the offense off. The rhythm is thrown off... They can’t get him out of it.

“It’s frustrating in a lot of ways, to the coaching staff. And to the players. Extremely frustrating to the players. Because when they look at the film, the next day or a few days later, they see what’s available out there and what should’ve happened, and it didn’t happen, it’s frustrating to them as well... I’m just basically telling you there’s a lot of people in that organization that are frustrated with the quarterback situation right now. But the quarterback understands he has them over a barrel. This is almost Carson Wentz part two. They’re not going to eat this kind of money yet.”