Jalen Hurts’ mom confronts Fox Sports host over criticism about Eagles QB and Super Bowl MVP

Jalen Hurts' mom confronts Fox Sports host over criticism about Eagles QB and Super Bowl MVP

The Philadelphia Eagles offensive line did an admirable job protecting quarterback Jalen Hurts during their Super Bowl LIX win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

Hurts’ mother Pamela, though, may be out of their league.

As recalled by FS1’s Nick Wright – an avowed Chiefs fanatic – a stranger approached him at a Klutch Sports party the night before the Eagles’ 40-22 win in New Orleans.

‘I’m having a good time, I don’t work the next day, [having] a few drinks as most people are and a woman walks up to me and says ”I need to ask you one question: Why do you talk so bad about Jalen Hurts?”’ Wright told his FS1 colleagues Chris Broussard and Kevin Wildes.

Wright didn’t know what to say. Sure, he’s the unofficial captain of the Chiefs Kingdom bandwagon, but he didn’t remember being overly critical of Hurts heading into Super Bowl LIX. As he remembered, Wright had been largely complimentary over the man who’d ultimately win Super Bowl MVP. 

‘She’s like, ”No, no, you do.” And I said , well let me tell you the good things I said about him,’ Wright said. ‘Once this goes on for five, six, seven minutes, had a moment of clarity and I said: ”Ma’am, can I ask you one question real quick?” I said: ”Are you Jalen Hurts’ mother?”’

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts embraces his mom, Pamela, after the Super Bowl

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts embraces his mom, Pamela, after the Super Bowl

As recalled by FS1's Nick Wright – an avowed Chiefs fanatic – a stranger approached him at a Klutch Sports party the night before the Eagles' 40-22 win in New Orleans

As recalled by FS1’s Nick Wright – an avowed Chiefs fanatic – a stranger approached him at a Klutch Sports party the night before the Eagles’ 40-22 win in New Orleans

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Turns out, Wright was, well, right.

‘She said, ”Yes I am,”’ he continued. ‘And it went on for another 15 minutes, where it was a very cordial but intense mother defending her child against someone who she thinks has been unfair to him. She ended it with this, ‘I just want to know what you’re going to say when he wins [on Sunday].’

Wright said he promised to be fair in his analysis, particularly if the Eagles won, as they ultimately did.

‘So to Mrs. Hurts and to anyone else, he was phenomenal,’ Wright said, as quoted by the New York Post. ‘The Chiefs did do the thing that I think that anyone who was confident the chiefs would in thought — stop [Eagles running back] Saquon [Barkley] and you win. That’s the one thing they did effectively, game play-wise and it didn’t work because Jalen made every play that was asked about him.

‘He is as impressive as a leader as just about anyone in the sport and the team he leads just had in my opinion a top five all-time Super Bowl performance by a team as far as what they did on both sides of the ball,’ he continued.

‘I think it is unfair to say that [Bengals’] Joe [Burrow], [Ravens’] Lamar [Jackson] or [Bills’] Josh [Allen] are just definitively clearly in a different class than Jalen, I think he’s gotta be in that top five.’

The 26-year-old Hurts completed 17 of 22 pᴀsses Sunday for 221 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. He also ran for 72 yards on just 11 carries.

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