Hurts So Good: Eagles' QB Using Super Bowl Mistakes As Motivation

Philadelphia Eagles' offensive lineman Jason Kelce says Jalen Hurts is still haunted by a couple of costly plays in Super Bowl LVII.

It's not the 304 passing yards, the touchdown through the air, the 70 record rushing yards or even the three scores on the ground. No, what Philadelphia Eagles' star quarterback Jalen Hurts remains fixated on about last February's Super Bowl LVII loss to the Kansas City Chiefs is his mistakes.

In particular, his second-quarter fumble that Chiefs linebacker Nick Bolton returned for a touchdown to tie the game at 14.

“When you’re the guy - when you’re Jalen Hurts - I know the way he thinks, because we’ve talked about it, he still beats himself up for this play and that play,” Kelce said in a recent interview with JAKIB Sports. "I’m like, dude, you had the best performance ever for by a quarterback in the history of the Super Bowl. You did just fine."

Hurts was this close to being MVP of the Super Bowl, had the Eagles not lost by a field goal. He had an MVP regular season - finishing behind only Chiefs' quarterback Patrick Mahomes - after producing 3,701 yards and 22 touchdowns passing and another 760 yards and 13 touchdowns rushing. His Eagles went 14-3. He earned the mega contract. He's a finalist for an ESPY. He won an award this week from BET.

But, true to his big, winning character, Hurts is apparently using his small failures as motivation to be even better in 2023.

“The reality is when you’re that guy, when you’re really a competitor, you think you control stuff,” Kelce said. “You don’t want to acknowledge that somebody else - a field, officials - because once you start doing that, you start devaluing who you are and who we are.”

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