Hurts uncovers his 'swag,' helps Eagles stop skid

MINNEAPOLIS -- As backmost Jalen Hurts made his mode into the visitors locker country pursuing the Eagles' 28-22 win implicit the Minnesota Vikings connected Sunday, helium shouted, "We ain't f---ing losers nary more."

Hurts said helium played with "some fire" pursuing back-to-back losses to the Denver Broncos and New York Giants, and that was evident to teammates arsenic helium threw for 326 yards and 3 touchdowns and ended with a cleanable 158.3 passer standing -- conscionable the 3rd Eagles signal-caller to bash so.

"He's got truthful overmuch swag," near tackle Jordan Mailata said. "When he's successful control, you tin spot a look successful his eye."

Hurts said that during the team's descent each helium could deliberation was the opportunities to decorativeness down the agelong successful games. The Eagles were dormant past successful yards per play (3.9), people percent (24%) and punt percent (53%) successful the 2nd fractional this play entering the game.

Philadelphia flipped that publication against Minnesota arsenic Hurts threw for 240 yards and a brace of scores successful the 2nd half. He averaged 20 yards per walk effort implicit that span, the highest complaint successful the 2nd fractional by a backmost with astatine slightest 10 attempts since Kirk Cousins successful Week 11 of 2016 (10.3 YPA), according to ESPN Research.

The Philadelphia discourtesy got disconnected to a blistery commencement successful the 3rd quarter, with Hurts uncovering DeVonta Smith for a 79-yard touchdown disconnected of play-action connected the Eagles' opening series. Smith identified a vulnerability successful the Vikings' defence erstwhile the Eagles went nether halfway and told whoever would perceive astatine halftime that the squad could instrumentality vantage of it.

"Smitty fundamentally saw thing and was like, 'I'm telling you, it's there.' KP [offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo] trusts him, we called it and we deed it," moving backmost Saquon Barkley said.

Smith finished with a career-high 183 receiving yards connected 9 catches. A.J. Brown posted 4 catches for 121 yards and 2 scores.

The Eagles ranked 30th successful passing discourtesy entering Week 7 successful portion due to the fact that they had occupation getting Brown and Smith going. That changed successful a large mode Sunday: Hurts went 13-of-17 for 304 yards erstwhile targeting his wide receivers successful this game, the second-highest yardage full successful his career.

"The happening was to travel successful and found the run, that's what we wanted to travel successful and do, and the crippled conscionable flowed the mode it did," Hurts said. "We were capable to beryllium businesslike successful the walk game, KP was precise timely, and I deliberation we were capable to doc up immoderate things connected the sideline and enactment done immoderate things, but those guys made big-time plays. Smitty had a hellhole of a day. Tough. Size ain't thing to him the mode helium plays. It was bully to see."

The Brown-Hurts transportation successful peculiar has been lacking, but they were connected the aforesaid leafage against the Vikings, including connected a game-sealing 45-yard fourth-quarter reception connected 3rd-and-9 that was the effect of a cheque astatine the enactment of scrimmage.

The Eagles appeared to payment from the mini-bye pursuing their Thursday nighttime nonaccomplishment to the Giants, which included a Monday violative gathering wherever players and coaches offered 1 different feedback.

Those efforts didn't nutrient contiguous results for a crushed onslaught that inactive isn't firing connected each cylinders, but an aerial show specified arsenic the 1 they showed Sunday shoul...