Eagles Quarterback Looks Ahead after Super Bowl Loss: ‘Be What God Called Me to Be’
By Movieguide® Contributor
The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs faced off Sunday in a thrilling Super Bowl where the Chiefs took a 38-35 victory, punching in a last-second field goal.
Despite the disappointing loss, Jalen Hurts, the Eagles’ quarterback, immediately looked to the future.
“You either win or you learn, that’s how I feel,” Hurts said in a postgame conference. “Win, lose, I always reflect on the things I could have done better—anything you could have done better to try and take that next step.”
“It is a tough feeling to come up short. It’s a very tough feeling, but I know the direction is to rise, and that will be the M.O. going forward,” he added.
Sports Spectrum reports, “Hurts played one of the best games of his life on the biggest stage. He threw for 304 yards and a touchdown on 27-of-38 passing, and ran for 70 yards and three touchdowns on 15 carries, setting records for the most rushing yards and rushing touchdowns ever by a quarterback in the Super Bowl.”
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni added, “To me, [Hurts] played the best game I’ve seen him play in the two years that we’ve been together. He was outstanding.”
While the Eagles did not win, the third-year quarterback has always been outspoken about his faith, placing his identity in God rather than football.
“I really lean on Him, and I try to keep Him in the center of everything that I do because I know without God, I wouldn’t be where I am today,” Hurts said in a press conference leading up to the game. “I wouldn’t be the man I am today without having that faith in Him, without integrity and leadership and diligence and all those things.
“I think the biggest thing is you get so influenced by so much around you, you just want to pray that you’re the person that God calls you to be. So that’s what I’m gonna do—be what God called me to be,” he added.
Movieguide® previously reported on Hurts’ faith:
Despite the immense pressure to bring home the Lombardi trophy for their home-states, Hurts and Mahomes are outspoken about their faith in God in interviews and on social media.
“I’ve just matured and realized that God is everything, and He’s worthy of praise,” Hurts told CBS Sports in a recent interview. “You have to put Him at the center of everything that you do. That’s what I believe. All my spiritual wisdom — all of my wisdom as a whole — comes from Him, in some way, shape or form, whether that be passed down from my father, my mother, my grandmother. I just think, in all the things that we experience in life — good, bad or indifferent — you have to keep Him in the center.”
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