Jalen Hurts was comfortable sharing the spotlight from September to January.
But on the second night of Sunday of February, when most mattered, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback stood out and won the most valuable player award (MVP) in the 40-22 win over the Kansas City Chiefs on the Super Bowl 59, which The National Football League (NFL (NFL) title in the United States) at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
“Jalen simply knows how to win,” said Eagles coach Nick Sirianni. “He does a great job blocking the distractions. He’s special.”
Hurts denied Kansas City which would have been the first three -time consecutive championship in the history of Super Bowl. He completed 17 of 22 passes for 221 yards and two touchdowns and ran to 72 yards and a touchdown, becoming the fifth player with multiple passes for touchdown and a busy touchdown in a super bowl.
Hurts was, in his own way, humble in sharing credit for the mastery of the Eagles.
“It was a total effort of the team. The defense played as it has done all year. Defenses win championships, and you saw how they were the difference in the game. They gave us opportunities, and we made the plays we needed to put points on the scoreboard “He said.
Sachon Barkley joined the Eagles as a free agent from New York Giants before the beginning of this season and a lot of team game improved by winning over 2,000 yards on the floor.
Barkley and the Eagles’s first-rate defense also stood out in three knockout games, while the air play was still inconsistent, with Hurts limited by a knee injury.
“We can find several ways to win,” said Hurts.
On Sunday, he led an efficient attack that accumulated 21 descents at the beginning of the game and kept the ball for almost 37 minutes, making great moves that stunned the chiefs.
“I try to embrace every situation,” said Hurts. “I try to turn each negative into positive, every weakness into strength.”
He managed to leave behind the frustration of 2023, when the Eagles even opened ten points of advantage over their own chiefs before losing 38 to 35.
This time, the advantage built at the beginning only grew to a 40-6 laundry. In the last quarter, with the game already decided, the Kansas City team got two touchdowns that did not change the story of the final.
Hurts’s performance ended a series of disappointments. In the Super Bowl defeat two years ago, he moved to 304 yards and a touchdown and ran to 70 yards and three touchdowns. And did not win.
“As good as it was that time, it was not enough to win. Sometimes you have to accept that you need to wait your turn,” he said, recalling a lesson he learned at university.
As quarterback from Alabama Crimson Tide, Hurts lost to Clemson in the 2016 Championship decision. In 2017, he was champion, but had to celebrate the bank’s title after losing his position to your Tagovailoa. Transferred to Oklahoma, it did not go beyond the semifinals.
“It has been an unprecedented journey. There were ups and downs. But it has been a fun journey,” said the 26 -year -old athlete.
“It’s always the beginning until it’s the end. And I’m far from the end.”
