{"id":106173,"date":"2025-10-01T08:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=106173"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:24:04","slug":"%e2%9a%a1-shocking-update-eagles-analyst-explains-rising-concussion-suspicions-for-jalen-hurts-after-his-2nd-half-meltdown-raising-urgent-questions-about-how-the-team-handled-his-health-on-game-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=106173","title":{"rendered":"\u26a1 SHOCKING UPDATE: Eagles analyst explains rising concussion suspicions for Jalen Hurts after his 2nd half meltdown raising urgent questions about how the team handled his health on game day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2237921507-e1759286111244.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2237921507-e1759286111244.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2237921507-e1759286111244.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2237921507-e1759286111244.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Eagles Analyst Explains Jalen Hurts Concussion Suspicions After 2nd Half Meltdown\" width=\"780\" height=\"437\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Hurts Philadelphia Eagles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Philadelphia Eagles survived an aggressive comeback from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday in order to keep their 1.000 winning record firmly intact.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles squandered a comfortable 24-6 lead at half time to let Tampa Bay get within 8 points of them in the fourth quarter, and then giving Baker Mayfield not one but two opportunities to tie the game up before the bout ultimately finished 31-25.<\/p>\n<p>The good news for Philadelphia is that the defense held firm. But more questions were posed of the offense in the second half than the first. Hurts got off to an excellent start in the first half, and then subsequently went 0-8 in passing for no yards through the air, although he did manage 20 on the ground rushing.<\/p>\n<p>Hurts himself had some words about the what was done between the first and second halves, but Anthony DiBona of The Philly Special has floated the possibility of a different theory.<\/p>\n<h2>Eagles Writer Suggest Jalen Hurts May Have Had Second-Half Concussion<\/h2>\n<p>DiBona suggests that it could be possible that Hurts suffered a concussion in the second quarter, after getting hit by a member of the Buccaneers\u2018 secondary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHurts played like a legitimate MVP candidate in the first half against the Buccaneers.\u201d DiBona wrote on Tuesday. \u201cHe completed 15-of-16 passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns. Then he looked like a completely different player in the second half, so what happened?<\/p>\n<p>On Philadelphia\u2019s third possession of the second half, Hurts took a shot from Buccaneers safety Tykee Smith while sliding. While the referees eventually picked up the flag, Hurts\u2019 head bounced off the field and he was slow to get up.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Did Jalen Hurts\u2019 Second-Quarter Hit Impact His Playing Ability?<\/h2>\n<p>Although this is hardly a declaration of full knowledge from DiBona, who emphasizes this is speculative, rather than an accusation, he did see a correlation between the hit and the subsequent decline in performance on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomehow, someway Hurts remained in the game and didn\u2019t look like himself the rest of the way. Now I\u2019m not going to say that Hurts definitely suffered a concussion but it was certainly a notable hit.<\/p>\n<p>Hurts failed to complete a single pass in the second half as Philadelphia\u2019s offense fell off a cliff. He was consistently off target with his throws and simply didn\u2019t look like the same player that we saw in the first half of Week 4.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is impossible to draw a conclusion without having all of the necessary medical facts. Especially given that the former Super Bowl MVP went up against one of the better defensive schemers and game-planners in all of football, in Tampa Bay\u2019s head coach, Todd Bowles.<\/p>\n<p>But going from 15\/16 to 0\/8 demonstrates not just a second half drop-off caused by a lack of focus and execution, or superior in-game adjustments from the opposing defense. It represents a total shift of momentum and power from one side of the ball to another.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, for Hurts\u2019 sake, it was just a second half blip of poor form that he can correct next weekend as the Eagles host the 2-2 Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Arwas Daniel Arwas is a sports writer who covers the NFL for Heavy.com.\u00a0Daniel began his career in sports writing in 2022 and has covered the NFL and college football for Gridiron Heroics\u00a0and\u00a0The Hammer. More about Daniel Arwas<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Eagles<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Philadelphia Eagles analyst believes that Jalen Hurts may have suffered a concussion in week 4, after a poor second half of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u26a1 SHOCKING UPDATE: Eagles analyst explains rising concussion suspicions for Jalen Hurts after his 2nd half meltdown raising urgent questions about how the team handled his health on game day - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=106173\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u26a1 SHOCKING UPDATE: Eagles analyst explains rising concussion suspicions for Jalen Hurts after his 2nd half meltdown raising urgent questions about how the team handled his health on game day - 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