Daily News | Jalen Hurts’ breakout earns Eagles a reprieve from NFL draft’s quarterback roulette
Sometimes, the best plans are the ones you don’t end up needing. The remarkable thing about where theare now is where they were a year ago. It’s a place that’s worth revisiting in the wake of the Carolina Panthers’ recent move up the draft board to secure the top overall pick in a trade with the Chicago Bears.
It’s worth considering if those two realities are related, especially given the circular conveyor belt of doom that so many other NFL teams are riding at the quarterback position. Take Reich, for instance. In one of history’s more unfortunate cases of timing, his first season as an NFL head coach happened to be Andrew Luck’s last as an NFL quarterback. Over the next three years, the Colts lived life at the quarterback position like Vin Diesel in: one quarter-mile at a time.
Maybe it was a matter of chance. The Eagles took a flier on a guy and it ended up working out. Maybe it was a matter of scouting. They saw something in Hurts that nobody else did. Probably, it was a combination of both of those things. But there’s a third element here that’s worth shouting out. The Eagles’ macro-level approach to the quarterback position maximized their odds of being both lucky and right.
Which brings us back to the Panthers. Like the Colts, they have spent the last few years throwing annual Hail Marys, from Teddy Bridgewater to Sam Darnold to Baker Mayfield. Now, they’ll at least get a guy who earns Reich a two- or three-year grace period.
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