Jalen Hurts Ruled Out, Tanner McKee Gets Eagles Shot

But, boy, oh, boy, the news was coming quickly this afternoon. A lot of different stories coming out. And the latest news, and we had talked about it this week, Craig, on, I don't know, the scheduling was not favorable to the Eagles. You make them go to London, play Jacksonville, get on a plane to come back, go home, and then they have to, instead of getting a week off, they have to take on a team that is coming off a bye week in Carolina. And now they're going to have to do it without Jalen Hurts, who's been ruled out because of a blood clot, which apparently they found on Saturday before the game last in London and they cleared him. But now it doesn't look like he's cleared. So now we've got a backup quarterback to go and backup offensive linemen in just a terrible spot. And as you can imagine, the line is moved a little bit with the news of this this afternoon. Yeah, like, it's reached that point for Philadelphia where it definitely appears as though, at least appears as though, that this is playing for next season at this point. Like, I don't know what they're supposed to do without Jalen Hurts, without Devonta Smith, without Saquon Barkley. Right, Joe? Like, you can't realistically think, I mean, they could beat Carolina this week, I'm not saying that. But you can't realistically think that, given all of the injuries that they have, that this is a 12-win team or 11-win team or a 10-win team. Maybe they get to the end, the division still stinks, and they have a chance. So let me provide the only glimmer of hope here, the only glimmer of hope, which is Tanner McKee, I will say, is my favorite backup quarterback in the National Football League. they have been waiting and waiting to give this guy a chance other teams have tried to get this guy from them year after year after year and i understand like hey wait a second why was he the third string behind dalton why did dalton come in and throw that pick a couple weeks ago why wasn't it McKee i don't know the answer to that but i would tell you that this kid has consistently lit up their practices consistently lit up their preseason games he's never gotten a chance to start three four games in a row i think this is it and it's very possible it's two starts or three starts and done and then we never talk about about him again but at least they have the hope joe because i personally like this player i do uh i'm not gonna like you know throw it down on the gauntlet and say bet philly this week but there was another guy look and let me let me not play apples and oranges and compare him to Tom Brady but just as a reminder Tom Brady's first start was not good either he got sacked a million times they lost and they weren't good with New England and he wasn't good with New England initially wouldn't shock me joe to see this guy be their quarterback at all at all rest of the season next season not wouldn't shock me in the slightest bit i know they love him he's played a bunch but not consecutively not two three games in a row joe every time this guy plays week 17 week 17 four touchdowns and 400 yards so i am a little excited to see him play now you know the only thing that i hope for him joe is that that the eagles were playing silly with us and they've known the last few days that he's going to start because if he really just found out today or yesterday oh oh man that's this is not a good spot if that's the case uh you know you know for him but but we talked about backup quarterbacks and when we did this was the guy that i thought was in my top five backup quarterbacks in the National Football League I have him as close or near the top, so I can't wait to see what he can do.