At an average annual salary of $51 million a year, Jalen Hurts is the first quarterback to make over $50 million in a season and win the Super Bowl. The previous record belonged to Patrick Mahomes, who makes an average of $45 million a season with the Kansas City Chiefs (Mahomes won the two prior Super Bowls before Hurts).

Jalen Hurts is a very good NFL quarterback. But there are elements of his game that suggest he does not rank with the very best at his position. If he's in charge of the very best team, though, does that matter -- and what does that say to the rest of the league?

O.K. so since the Eagles’ disastrous loss to the Bucs back on September 29th I’ve been coming to the defense of Philadelphia Eagles’ Quarterback Jalen Hurts in light of his mostly unwarranted and unrelenting dose of outside criticism on a