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Some old fashioned sniping on the feed this week, this time between WIP’s Spike Eskin and Jordie at Barstool.
It centers on the missed connection between Jalen Hurts and DeVonta Smith from the Chicago loss. Hurts was expecting Smitty to run and stop against a zero blitz, but he ran a slant instead. They were hot and trying to get the ball out quickly and just not on the same page.
When the first Hard Knocks episode came out on Tuesday night, it showed a clip of Hurts and Smith discussing the play afterward, talking on the sidelines and taking accountability and all of that. Then, in response to an ESP tweet, someone pulled a fresh clip of Spike Eskin saying “how many times after a missed communication this year have you seen Jalen and the wide receiver talking about it afterwards? because my answer is zero” –
Whoops!
Anyway, Jordie takes that clip and includes it in a Barstool blog titled “Philly Sports Media Is Going To Be Completely Gutted To Learn That Jalen Hurts Actually Talks To His Receivers On The Sideline After Watching Episode 1 Of Hard Knocks.“
He writes:
“Jalen Hurts is a great leader. You don’t win a Super Bowl and Super Bowl MVP by mistake. You have to be a great leader to get your team to that point, and it’s not something that just goes away overnight. So if you actually thought that Jalen Hurts never talks to his receivers during the game, you’re either an absolute dunce or you are willingly being an ignorant piece of shit just to stir up drama. It could very easily be one or the other for guys like Spike Eskin.”
Then we have a retort from Spike, who is on the Mike Missanelli trajectory of blocking the entire Philadelphia region on Twitter. He takes this article and butts it up against a 2020 Jordie blog about Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons being friends, while writing “finger always on the pulse, just in shambles as always!” Jordie responds by telling Spike that he stopped listening to the afternoon show when Eskin replaced Jon Marks:
Jordie is the clear winner in this spat. The WIP afternoon show has been a total embarrassment when it comes to Jalen Hurts discourse. Spike and Ike Reese got into an argument about whether or not Hurts is an elite quarterback on the day after the Eagles won the Super Bowl. Hurts had just won Super Bowl MVP 24 hours prior. Gong show type of stuff. It was the most pitiful exchange in a long history of pitiful exchanges on that radio station. They’re completely incapable of doing sports talk radio when the Eagles are a good team, because there’s nothing to complain about. But now the Birds are on a two-game losing streak, so WIP afternoons is back with the “is Jalen Hurts an elite quarterback?” poll, which has been beaten into the ground more than the support columns for a new Comcast skyscraper. Joe Giglio was out there earlier this week asking rhetorically if Tanner McKee might be the better QB to lead the team. It’s like the Eagles finally started to slip up and they were able to breathe a collective sigh of relief and get back to doing what they do best, which is spew unmitigated horseshit Negadelphia over the airwaves.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com