Jalen Hurts isn’t running from what last season looked like for the Philadelphia Eagles. He’s calling it what it was: a year that forced him and the team to absorb some hard lessons.
In a GQ interview, Hurts looked back on a 2025 season that started with the weight of reigning as Super Bowl champions and quickly unraveled into an 11-6 finish and a disappointing home wild card loss to the San Francisco 49ers. The season also carried plenty of turbulence around AJ Brown’s unhappiness, the annual uncertainty surrounding head coach Nick Siriani, and the frustrations that came with playcalling. Kevin Patullo and Hurts never quite meshed, and Patullo was soon out of the role.
Hurts also said he and Brown had “grew apart” last season, though the two may have started to repair things when they were together at a joint practice between the Eagles and Patriots a few weeks ago.
Still, Hurts framed the whole thing in a pretty steady light.
“It was a season of learning,” Hurts said. It was a season of experiences.
I believe a season of formative experiences. That’s what I’ve always called them.
You go into it and sometimes I forget about what has happened before because honestly, it doesn’t matter if you continue to press on, you got to carry the lessons from those things. You got to be able to manage the emotions throughout your experiences and just continue to pursue their excellence."
He added: “The goal was coming in and off of winning the championship and saying, okay, let’s go do this again. And you learn about how critical things are.
How important the little things are, the details and the importance of a team playing together, working together, having structure, having all of the things that you need to play fish and ball. And so it was a test.
It was a test for us, but I think it’s something that taught me a lot.”
Looking ahead to 2026, the Eagles are back among the NFC contenders, alongside the Los Angeles Rams and the latest Super Bowl champions, the Seattle Seahawks. Hurts and Philadelphia open the season against the Washington Commanders on Sept. 13.
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