


Jason Kelce had no issues with Jalen Hurts airing out the Eagles.
The longtime Eagles center addressed the fallout of the team’s third straight loss, a 20-17 setback to the Seahawks on “Monday Night Football,” in which Hurts said of the now 10-4 squad, “I don’t think we’re committed enough.”
“That’s the attitude you have to have,” Kelce said Wednesday on the “New Heights” podcast he hosts with his brother, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. “I think when you’re not performing as a team, when you’re not winning games, the only thing you can do is go back and work that much more, go back and commit yourself that much harder.
“We have great people in the building, we have people that want to win, I know that. There is no question in my mind about that.”
Once the Super Bowl favorites, the Eagles have dropped three straight games.
Though Philadelphia still controls its NFC East fate, it likely won’t be the NFC’s top seed for the second straight year with the honors likely going to the 49ers.
Monday night’s loss featured the Eagles wasting a 10-point lead and a costly mistake by Kelce, 36, on an attempted “tush push” when he moved the ball forward before the play.
Hurts criticized his team after the upset loss.
“I don’t think we’re committed enough. Just got to turn it around,” the 25-year-old quarterback said. “You know, it’s a challenge that we have to embrace. Just continue to see it through.”
Kelce sees Hurts’ comments as a reason to be even more motivated entering the final three weeks.
The Eagles’ schedule is quite easy to close out the regular season, with a game against the Cardinals sandwiched between two against the Giants, including Monday’s Christmas Day home game against New York.
“For me, the commitment comment, that’s all you can do is re-commit yourself even more than you were,” Kelce said. “At the end of the day, all you can do is go back and work, go back and focus on the fundamentals and focus on where you’re making mistakes as an individual, focus on how you can help your teammate, assist your teammate, be where you need to be, bring energy.
“I think all these things in the grand scheme of things add up to you and your teammates playing better if everybody has that mindset.”