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Jalen Hurts’s Super Bowl MVP ‘proved absolutely nothing,’ explains Rex Ryan
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Jalen Hurts still had a lot of critics, even after leading the Philadelphia Eagles to a Super Bowl appearance in 2022 and piling up a lot of victories since becoming the Eagles’ starting quarterback.
And with 1 giant performance and 1 giant blowout of a Kansas City Chiefs franchise that was going for 3 straight Super Bowl titles, the former Alabama and Oklahoma star answered those critics on Sunday night in New Orleans. Hurts was 17-of-22 passing for 221 yards, 2 touchdown passes and 1 interception, and he actually led Philadelphia in rushing with 72 yards on 11 carries and another score.
So, obviously, that means he proved everything to everybody out there, right?
Wrong.
ESPN analyst and former NFL head coach Rex Ryan said on Get Up on Monday morning that Hurts proved nothing to him with Sunday night’s performance. But don’t jump down Ryan’s throat, because Ryan meant it as a giant compliment.
“He was the best player on the field the last Super Bowl. I think people forget that,” said Ryan. “I think he’s a big-time player. He proved absolutely nothing to me. All he did was play exactly how he did the last Super Bowl.”
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The difference, of course, was that the Eagles won this Super Bowl and lost the last one, and that difference in the final result produces differences in the general reaction. But not for Ryan.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
