EAGLES UNFILTERED: Growth of Jalen Hurts and a Defensive Uprising

The Eagles beat a good Minnesota Vikings team in dominating fashion
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The Eagles moved to 2-0 and there will be no revisionist history about the Minnesota Vikings.

The Vikings are a good team and the Eagles dominated them, 24-7, on Monday Night Football.

In this episode of Eagles Unfiltered, co-hosts Ed Kracz and Conor Myles take a look at what happened in the Eagles' victory.

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Here's some of what you will hear

Kracz and Myles break down the game Jalen Hurts played.

What does it mean for this team's future?

Are you on board with how the QB is playing or still skeptical?

It may have been the quarterback's best game, though that's a question that comes up a lot, lately. The Eagles are 9-3 in his last 12 starts, including the playoff loss last year to the Buccaneers.

The offense was only one part of the game.

The defense came to play and that took some heat off DC Jonathan Gannon.

Fletcher Cox also raised his level of play from Week 1.

In the third phase of the game - special teams - the Eagles did a nice job in punt coverage against Jalen Reagor, but having a field goal block could have been devastating had Arryn Siposs not made a touchdown-saving tackle.

And what about the kick returner? Is Quez Watkins the answer?

All that and more when you hit one of the links.

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Ed Kracz is the publisher of SI.com’s Fan Nation Eagles Today and co-host of the Eagles Unfiltered Podcast. Check out the latest Eagles news at www.SI.com/NFL/Eagles or www.eaglesmaven.com and please follow him on Twitter: @kracze.


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ED KRACZ

Ed Kracz has been covering the Eagles full-time for over a decade and has written about Philadelphia sports since 1996. He wrote about the Phillies in the 2008 and 2009 World Series, the Flyers in their 2010 Stanely Cup playoff run to the finals, and was in Minnesota when the Eagles secured their first-ever Super Bowl win in 2017. Ed has received multiple writing awards as a sports journalist, including several top-five finishes in the Associated Press Sports Editors awards.