![]() Russell Wilson was just good enough to deliver a Seahawks victory in his first Super Bowl appearance. Dan Marino and Jared Goff revealed their inexperience on that same stage. It bears reminding that Hurts, starting in a Super Bowl in his third pro season, is a baby – just 24, an age where quarterbacks are forgiven for wilting under the bright lights. After the game he would choose his words carefully while recalling the fumble – more to give himself grace than to shirk responsibility. Not surprisingly, none of this consoled Hurts. Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said it was Hurts’s best game in the two years they have been together, adding “he was in complete control.” Mahomes himself called Hurts’s performance outstanding. In the pantheon of great Super Bowl performances it was a different kind of Philly special, with Hurts barely eclipsed by the quarterback who beat him. Patrick Mahomes cherishes Chiefs' Super Bowl win 'because of the failures' – video Apart from one three-and-out possession early in the fourth, all Hurts incompletions, the Eagles offense kept soaring. But once back on his feet, Hurts picked up where he left off, right back in the zone. His head hit the grass hard at the end of the play and, for a moment, he looked dazed while reaching for a hand to help him up. If Hurts appeared to stagger at any point, it was late in the second quarter, after ripping off a 28-yard run on 4th-and-5 to put the Eagles in scoring position. He made all the right moves, his fumble excluded, while piloting the Eagles offense and dominating the clock. ![]() Besides that? There was no touching Hurts on Sunday. ![]() ![]() The result of him coming up a yard short of the line of scrimmage as the Chiefs’ Khalen Saunders, a 325lbs defensive tackle who had a career-high 3.5 sacks this season, gave chase. The two sacks against him? At least one was technicality. Even his dicey pass attempts into double coverage hit his Eagles receivers dead on-target. Hurts led the Eagles with 70 yards rushing ( a record for a quarterback in a Super Bowl) and 304 yards passing, completing 71% of his throws on 38 attempts, one shy of his season high – and a fair few of his incompletions were intentional throwaways. The official record should reflect that, but for a play here or there, it could have easily been Hurts basking in MVP glory after leading his team to victory. In the end Kansas City were simply the more resilient team thanks to their Michael Jordan in cleats, Patrick Mahomes. But it didn’t spare them from a 38-35 defeat either. This time, however, a back-up wasn’t trotting on to the field to replace Hurts, because his error didn’t permanently halt the Eagles momentum. It was the kind of play that could have dented Hurts’s confidence, given that the last time he stumbled on a stage this big was when he was leading Alabama in the 2018 college national championship game. Without breaking stride, Bolton scooped it up at the 36-yard line and, with a three-man Chiefs convoy, sprinted into the endzone to tie the game at 14-14. As Hurts staggered to his right to avoid incoming Chiefs linebacker Nick Bolton, the ball slipped out and tumbled backward on to the turf. Facing third and five from his 49-yard line, the Eagles star fielded a shotgun snap and lunged forward in an obvious quarterback draw play, only to immediately find himself under pressure from the Chiefs’ pass rush. All rights reserved.Jalen Hurts made one mistake in Super Bowl LVII, as Kansas City and Philadelphia were trading blows early in the second quarter in Glendale, Arizona.
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