At the time, I had an issue with hiring a coach from Bowling Green of all places to be Hurts' QB coach. Patullo has rightfully incurred the wrath of the fanbase as being ineffective. I think we need to look at the QB coach as well. Hurts has had a serious regression this year, the likes we haven't seen since Carson Wentz went into free fall in 2020. A good chunk of that regression needs to fall on the man responsible for coaching the QB's.

The last 3 weeks the run / pass ratio has been way out of balance and Jalen just isn't the kind of QB you build an offense around to pass 40 times per game. In a balanced attack where he is required to run as well, he's been very good. But now when he scrambles and decides to run he always waits too long to commit and the running lane closes and the defenders are already on him. When it's a designed run, he slides content to take a loss. This isn't the Jalen Hurts I like to watch.

I didn't watch any post-game interviews and honestly I don't see a point in watching them say the same things again and again. You don't magically become better by saying you need to play better.

Why do you need a qb coach when you’ve been a qb your whole life?

2 hours ago, xxeaglesfanxx said:

Why do you need a qb coach when you’ve been a qb your whole life?

Because there's always room for improvement and while self scouting has its value, a dedicated set of eyes from outside is a very good thing. Problem is that this particular set of eyes seems to be as blind as the QB. At his point in is career, Hurts should be fine tuning his game, not trying to remaster the basics, and failing at that.

The massive regression by Hurts is obvious to all. Both he and his "QB coach" are most blame worthy. Why Jalen Hurts STILL can't see the whole field and refuses to go through progressions is outrageous and maddening. If that doesn't change consistently for the better, he'll find himself benched just like at Alabama. I want him to do well, but his lack of steady improvement may be his undoing, and in a results driven profession like NFL football, it won't take long.

On 12/9/2025 at 10:09 AM, PoconoDon said:

Because there's always room for improvement and while self scouting has its value, a dedicated set of eyes from outside is a very good thing. Problem is that this particular set of eyes seems to be as blind as the QB. At his point in is career, Hurts should be fine tuning his game, not trying to remaster the basics, and failing at that.

The massive regression by Hurts is obvious to all. Both he and his "QB coach" are most blame worthy. Why Jalen Hurts STILL can't see the whole field and refuses to go through progressions is outrageous and maddening. If that doesn't change consistently for the better, he'll find himself benched just like at Alabama. I want him to do well, but his lack of steady improvement may be his undoing, and in a results driven profession like NFL football, it won't take long.

I do think that Jalen hasn’t quite progressed as people want him to be, but I also think that the team is asking him to do things that haven’t been asked of him in the past also. This team will not be successful with any quarterback throwing 40 times in a game especially one in December with no run game to speak of. The worst part is Jalen isn’t running and in times when things are struggling, he’s not using his legs to bail them out this year. Justin Herbert was under duress all game, struggled really to play quarterback, but when the team needed to extend drives he used his legs to win the game. For whatever the reason Jalen isn’t doing this and you can see it. There’s nothing that is forcing defenses to stay honest. This reminds me of when McNabb stopped running, but I’m not sure this was the season to do that considering Barkley has rushed for over 100 yards once this season and has consistently been hit in the backfield all season. There playing offense with one arm tied behind their back and it seems like they decided to make it even more difficult by not running Jalen more.

I'd replace him by Foles

On 12/9/2025 at 7:38 AM, xxeaglesfanxx said:

Why do you need a qb coach when you’ve been a qb your whole life?

Same reason baseball teams have a pitching coach. Athletes no matter how skilled fall into bad habits and the coach is there to help correct that and teams make adjustments so the coach is there to help a player counter those adjustments. Also as previously mentioned there is always room for improvement.

Hurts hasn't "regressed" this is who he has always been. The difference is hurts was carried most games last season and didn't have to do much. Now hes being ask to do more in the passing game but can't because he is a limited QB.

You could say Hurts has regressed with his legs. Nothing is worse than a running QB who can't run the ball. At that point you're a below average QB.

On 12/12/2025 at 2:44 PM, Swimm said:

Hurts hasn't "regressed" this is who he has always been. The difference is hurts was carried most games last season and didn't have to do much. Now hes being ask to do more in the passing game but can't because he is a limited QB.

You could say Hurts has regressed with his legs. Nothing is worse than a running QB who can't run the ball. At that point you're a below average QB.

I’d say the biggest difference is Hurts isn’t using his legs and that’s taking away a huge part of his game. That’s making him predictable and he’s not using his best asset. He’s never been a pure passer and it seems he can’t develop in to one. So he either goes back to using his legs more or this is going to be what he is overall. He can still have good games from the pocket but he’ll also have bad games and it’ll be up and down.