#Eagles QB Jalen Hurts addressed the A.J. Brown trade, the ESPN story from April about him, his contract and other topics today:
On the A.J. Brown trade and Brown saying they werenโt as close, but that he wishes him all the best:
โIโm not in the place to challenge anyoneโs perspective on anything, seemingly so, it was. Thatโs where I am. Iโve always been focused on the collective. Iโve always put my energy towards that. As a leader, Iโve always put an onus on giving maximum effort to achieve the shared mission we have on the team.โ
Any disappointment with how it ended for A.J. with the Eagles:
โYou come into it and you have a sense of pride with how it began, and definitely what we were able to accomplish. โฆ Nothing can take that away. For the great things that we did, now itโs time to focus on achieving great things with this iteration of the team.โ
On the ESPN story that characterized Hurts as being resistant to change, among other things:
โIโve never really asked for an opportunity to respond to anything. So just let it live and go do my job.โ:
On if he asked for the โfour verticalsโ last play of the season, as reported in the ESPN story:
โNah. No.โ
On his being resistant to change:
โIโm always open to growth. Iโm always open to improving. I think a lot of it is what do we put our time on task? What are we exhausting? What are we repping. And so, Iโm looking forward to seeing how training camp goes so we can just continue to build on the foundation that weโre beginning to lay down.โ
On his contract and if there is a restructure coming:
โFor me, Iโm truly focused on being the best I can be right now. Thatโs where my energy is. Thereโs a lot of change as is. Iโm focused on this offense. Iโm focused on building with Sean [Mannion] and being my best.โ