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Seth Joyner Continues to be a Shining Eagles Beacon, the Torch Bearer for Positivity, Logic, and Reason
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At some point during last year’s Super Bowl run, longtime miserab Seth Joyner abruptly pulled a 180 and became a shining beacon for pragmatic Posidelphia.
It was a stunning about face from a guy who once complained that the Eagles didn’t have enough interceptions, despite the fact that the Birds were currently leading the NFL in interceptions.
Fast forward to Week 7 of 2025 and here he is defending Jalen Hurts:
Seth’s sweatshirt is so tight that it looks like he’s wearing a hijab. Did he convert to Islam?
Anyway, here’s the full transcription of the video:
“What I hate about the situation more than anything is this presents the opportunity for the, ‘I told you so’s‘. I hate it. Because for the time when the guy thrives and he has successes, we want to lose vision of that. But when he goes through a period of difficulty we want to pile on. They’ve got 11 games left in the regular season. We don’t know what that’s going to look like. He could flip the switch at any moment. Anything could flip at any moment.
I am concerned? Yes, I am. And let me be honest with you, even if they don’t (turn it around), I am a proud ex-former-Philadelphia Eagle because guess what? We just won the damn Super Bowl. So I’m gonna go back again – let’s learn how to be a little bit more damn grateful for the good things that we have after looking at what the Flyers are going through. Let’s look at what the Phillies have just gone through. The misery that those teams have put us through, with what the Sixers have put us through. But the team that has given us some joy, we can’t be grateful enough to enjoy it knowing that most teams when they come off a Super Bowl are going to struggle anyway. They’re gonna lose some key pieces. If they go through injuries, which the Eagles did not go through at all last year. If your quarterback struggles, every darn quarterback struggles! I don’t care who it is! They all struggle! Patrick Mahomes, over the first five weeks struggled. He looked good (Sunday night), but the first give games he looked like an average frickin’ quarterback. But we want to beat our quarterback up.”
Hear fuckin’ hear! Seth Joyner just dropped two paragraphs of pragmatism that look like they could have come straight out of a Crossing Broad column. Great minds think alike, as they say.
If you wanna beat up Jalen Hurts after six games of 4-2 football in the year following a Super Bowl victory, then go jump ship. You ingrates. Hurts is eight months removed from winning Super Bowl MVP. Show some respect and some self-control for once. This team just had the best season in franchise history and you animals have already reverted to 2002 levels of Angelo Cataldi-inspired Negadelphia and knee-jerk overreaction. You’ve gone so far over the edge and into the deep end of the pool that Seth Joyner had to pull the world’s most unpredictable face turn to save you from drowning. Think about that for a minute. You’re all so negative that you’ve taken the most negative analyst in Philadelphia and turned him into a pragmatist! Or maybe it was WIP’s constant blathering that forced Seth into becoming a contrarian.
Whatever the case, he is more than welcome on the Posidelphia wagon. This is a great version of Seth, best version we’ve seen since he was annihilating quarterbacks in the late 80s and early 90s. We all should embrace the concepts of critical thinking, logic, reason, and patience. We should eschew, with total prejudice, performative outrage and adolescent emotional blathering. Let’s show some gratitude for the greatest era of Philadelphia Eagles football and let’s raise the discourse, too. This is the defending champs we’re talking about here and they get the benefit of the doubt that they’ll iron out the issues and get things clicking. This isn’t 1997. We don’t suck anymore, but some of these fans certainly do.
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