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In Roob’s Eagles Observations: How can Jalen Hurts throw touchdowns without looking? originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
The Butterfly Effect in the Eagles-Jaguars game, a Jalen Hurts achievement that hadn’t been done by an Eagles QB since Randall Cunningham and Josh Sweat’s future.
That’s a mere smattering of what’s on tap in today’s Roob’s 10 Random Eagles Observations!
1. One of the most remarkable things I’ve ever heard was lost in all the excitement Sunday around the Eagles nearly blowing a 22-point lead, Nakobe Dean’s last-minute interception, a fourth straight win, Saquon Barkley’s reverse hurdle and so on. It was Jalen Hurts off-handedly mentioning that he threw the 25-yard touchdown pass to DeVonta Smith without seeing him: “I think people don’t take notice of how much of a lack of vision a quarterback does have in certain situations,” he said. That was kind of mindblowing to me. It never occurred to me that a quarterback could actually have such a connection with a receiver that he could loft the ball down the field to him without actually seeing him but knowing exactly where he’s going to be. I asked Jalen to expound on that on Wednesday, and his response was fascinating: “There’s never a point where it just snaps, you know. It happens. You just build and build and build, and we’ve been building for a very long time. It dates back to his recruiting visit to Alabama, where we didn’t go party, we didn’t go do anything, we had no interest in doing anything but ball, and we threw routes on air. And those are the little stories that I hold near and dear because those are the things that change the trajectory, and honestly those are the small things that help the team this year. Those small connections, the moments that we’ve had. It’s all about building.” Just to clarify, Smith visited Alabama his junior year at Amite High outside Baton Rouge, La., so that was back in 2015 or 2016, so he was probably 17 years old and…
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