“Jalen Hurts is about winning. He wants to win. And I know he has a responsibility to himself, to his family, to the players,” Giglio said on Wednesday’s 94WIP Midday Show. “But I look at it like this, Jalen Hurts should take less to help the Eagles.
“The best way for him to win is to continue to have good players around him, it’ll help him be a winner. And number two, Jalen Hurts has really made a football career of playing on loaded teams…He has had talent around him at a lot of his stops.”
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Howie Roseman spoke about the Hurts contract situation at the NFL Combine saying, “You want to find a win-win situation…Surround him with good players. He knows that, he’s a smart guy. That doesn’t mean that’s not going to be a tremendous contract for him, because he deserves that too.”
94WIP Midday Show co-host and former Eagles defensive end Hugh Douglas disagreed with Giglio.
“I like Howie, I like him a lot,” Douglas said during Wednesday’s show. “But if I’m Jalen Hurts that’s not an MP, that’s a YP. That’s not a my problem, that’s a your problem. Everything that you’re saying is true.
But when I look at Jalen Hurts and his draft class—he’s the fifth quarterback taken in his draft class taken in the second round. He’s worked his butt off to get to this point in his life. Ain’t no way on God’s green earth I’m taking less money! Now, I understand that there’s a situation you want to field a competitive team around you, but that’s Howie’s job.”
Hurts, 24, was the Eagles’ second-round pick in 2020 and has one year left on his rookie deal, scheduled to make a base salary of $4.3 million in 2023 per Spotrac.com.
Hurts is eligible for an extension, something that will most certainly get done this offseason.
In two full seasons as the Eagles’ starting QB, Hurts has a regular season record of 22-8 with 38 passing touchdowns and 23 rushing touchdowns. He is 2-1 in three postseason games with five total touchdowns and two interceptions.
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