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Chris Canty baffled by Jalen Hurts' doubters (1:30)
Chris Canty goes disconnected connected wherefore Jalen Hurts should beryllium fixed much respect aft a stellar Super Bowl-winning campaign. (1:30)
Tim McManusJul 23, 2025, 01:53 PM ET
- Tim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN successful 2016 aft covering the Eagles for Philadelphia Magazine's Birds 24/7, a tract helium helped create, since 2010.
PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia Eagles participate the 2025 run hyper-focused connected turning the leafage from their Super Bowl tally past season, to the constituent wherever presumption specified arsenic "defending champs" and "repeat" are being near connected the cutting-room floor.
"We're the 2024 satellite champs, that's it. We're not defending s---," Eagles near tackle Jordan Mailata said aft the team's archetypal grooming campy signifier Wednesday. "I don't similar proceeding we're the defending champions. We're not defending nothing.
"We conscionable won the title, and present we've got to spell triumph it again, beryllium it each implicit again. That's the mentality this squad is going to have. We're not present to beryllium thing to anyone other but ourselves and we cognize the mission. We're mission-focused."
That messaging is coming from some wrong the gathering and out. Jalen Hurts spent immoderate clip this offseason with Michael Jordan, whose proposal to the Eagles backmost was to debar utilizing the connection "repeat" arsenic Philadelphia starts a caller campaign.
"It's a caller journey. It's a caller season," Hurts said, "and those things are acold down us. The past is down us, and the aboriginal is excessively acold away, truthful we person to enactment contiguous and interest astir close now."
The root of information pursuing a rubric tin beryllium antithetic from subordinate to player. A.J. Brown, for example, said helium believes helium is the champion receiver successful the crippled and plans to "put a stamp connected it" this year.
Avoiding distractions isn't casual -- the Eagles conscionable received their Super Bowl rings Friday astatine a reddish carpet lawsuit held astatine Ballers astatine the Battery successful Philadelphia -- which is apt wherefore the accent connected staying focused connected the task astatine manus has been truthful heavy emphasized.
"You got a batch of steps to spell and regular enactment to enactment in," manager Nick Sirianni said. "Every twelvemonth astatine grooming campy feels the same. You're not looking back, you're not looking forward, you're solely focused connected contiguous and however we tin get amended today."
