NFL | Rififi in Philadelphia

It is not so easy to maintain peace and harmony within the same duo.

If history has taught us anything, it is that, and perhaps more. Over time, duets we thought were eternal have ended up eroding, because no one can avoid the finality of time passing. Thus, Montana and Rice, Jordan and Pippen, Milli and Vanilli, to name just a few, have all had to deal with this inescapable reality.

Which leads us to Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown.

The Eagles quarterback and receiver are in the third season of a crumbling professional marriage. The images from last Sunday’s game in Philadelphia fooled no one: Brown scampering in the field alone, without a single opponent on his tail, and Hurts who preferred to look elsewhere, thus ignoring his star receiver.

Brown finished this game against the Carolina Panthers with only 4 catches for 43 yards, and everyone saw him hitting the ground with his helmet on the sidelines. Defensive end Brandon Graham then suggested that the relationship between Hurts and Brown was not going well, which then led to the kind of slip-ups you’d only think would happen in Montreal, such as when someone thinks he saw Gerard Gallant in a restaurant somewhere with Kent Hughes, but hey, we digress.

The Eagles therefore find themselves with nine consecutive victories, and an 11-2 record, but that all seems very fragile, doesn’t it?

This season, players in green average 180.6 yards per game, an average that is 31st^e of American football in this regard. Hurts arrives at 20^e ranks among NFL quarterbacks in passing yards, behind Aaron Rodgers, who spends more time trying to talk to the stars than trying to win football games.

The Eagles’ offense has benefited from the rebirth of running back Saquon Barkley, who has already gained 1,623 yards on the ground this season, but in the playoffs, it is difficult to see this team moving forward without quality aerial play. Last season, the Eagles’ playoff run lasted just one game, a 32-9 slap against the Tampa Bucs. All this under the stunned gaze of coach Nick Sirianni, who often seems like a guy overwhelmed by events.

It remains to be seen if Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown can put all that aside for the cause. Sometimes reconciliations can be complicated.

You never wish harm on anyone, but if there’s anything good about this injury suffered by quarterback Drew Lock, it’s that the New York Giants are going to have to give the wheel to Tommy DeVito, maybe our all-time favorite quarterback, because if this guy can get on a professional football field, it’s proof that anything in life is possible. Thanks, Tommy.

Once again, the jokes write themselves, and on the Jets side, receiver Garrett Wilson mentioned the possibility of a “defeating gene” to explain the repeated failures of his club, but the young man does not don’t worry: it’s normal for the Jets, a club that hasn’t won anything since Apollo 11. The Jets will miss the playoffs for 14^e year in a row, and no one else in the history of humanity has ever experienced such a chain of mediocrity, except perhaps Kiss in the 1980s.

Other than that, Bill Belichick is going to bring his legendary good humor to college football at North Carolina, and it’s still strange that the second coach among those with the most lifetime victories in the NFL is not able to find some job in this league.

This week’s mail starts strong with this reader who comes to us with a real glue: “Can the Bills win a Super Bowl against the Rams, the Lions and the Eagles?” »

Probably not against all three at the same time, no, but let’s move on to the next call, and let’s look at Louis Boivin, who wants to provide this clarification: “You’re talking about Brett Favre with the Vikings, then with the Jets, but this the last one finished his career with the Vikings, not the Jets… with them, he only sent questionable photos…”

Very true. Finally, regarding the Vikings, Serge Deblois has his doubts, among others about quarterback Sam Darnold, “who [lui] reminiscent of Andy Dalton, Carson Wentz and Jared Goff, always the gift of faltering when he shouldn’t.

Of course, but is there a time when you have to give up?

Sunday will be a good time to do nothing, because there will be some big games on the agenda.

Starting off, the Bills at Detroit against the Lions, this looks like the kind of big game we could watch again in February. At the same time at 4:25 p.m., there will be this succulent Steelers-Eagles, while the Pittsburgh club, as we know, is still trying to forget this humiliating defeat of October 6 against the Dallas Cowboys. Finally, in the evening, the Seattle Seahawks will host the Green Bay Packers.

It’s time to order the turkey, if you haven’t already.