Rich’s Stern Advice for Upset Eagles Fans Despite Philly Starting the Season 2-0

The Eagles are 2-0 and Philadelphia is somehow still restless. So Rich turned to the calmest man in the building to settle everyone down.

"Let's just turn to Jalen Hurts to keep everyone calm," he said, introducing a clip of Hurts explaining how he keeps his poise. Rich's setup was a warning: this is "a man who's always poised to tell you nothing."

Right on cue, Hurts delivered. "Preparation, great focus and great poise throughout what's being done," he said. "Trusting the guys around me, being in the moment, and it's a team game in the end. Takes all 11 out there on the field."

Then Rich asked the question the show likes to ask about a quote like that. What was he really thinking? And Rich answered it himself, in the first person, at full volume.

"How do I stay poised? Well, you tell me."

What followed was the Jalen Hurts career story, told the way Rich imagines Hurts would tell it if he ever dropped the guard. He was the man at Alabama playing for Nick Saban, got the team to the national championship game, and was told to sit down for Tua. He stayed put and helped out anyway. Then he went out on his own to Oklahoma "and I'll wind up on a podium for the Heisman freaking trophy."

Then Philadelphia drafted him with Carson Wentz already there, and "everyone's wondering why am I being drafted? Well, because I'm a dog. That's why." He watched Nate Sudfeld get snaps in a game he was trying to win on national television. He took the Eagles to one Super Bowl and "damn near" won the MVP in a loss. Then he went back and won it, and was MVP of that one.

And through it all, Rich's Hurts shouted, "there's a revolving freaking door in my headset." "The head coach of LSU and Texas did it in the same year for me," Rich's Hurts continued, before rattling off more names from the carousel of play-callers, including Brian Johnson, Kellen Moore, and Kevin Patullo.

The closing line landed the whole bit. "How do I stay poised?"

It was a crowd-pleaser in the studio. "He still looks great," came one reaction. "I like the shirt," came another.

Rich knew what he was doing. "I know I'm opening myself up for conversation in Eastern PA," he said, "but I just got to say it."

The message underneath the bit is the advice Eagles fans might not want at 2-0. Their quarterback has been benched, doubted, and handed a new voice in his ear more times than he can count, and he has stayed poised through all of it. Maybe the fan base can manage it for a couple of weeks, too.