There was a moment, about midway through the third quarter, when national TV cameras caught Jalen Hurts sitting on the bench as the Green Bay Packers were driving. Hurts was looking sideways, seemingly oblivious to what was happening on the field.
It was not just Hurts. He appeared to embody the entire Eagles’ team, who seemed remote for large segments of their 22-10 Wild Card round playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field.
This game should have been a blowout.
It wasn’t.
The ho-hum undertone of the game translated in the lackluster, safe way in which the Eagles’ offense was run, everything underneath with no shots taken down field.