Hurts taunts Titans after Eagles win: Finished what you started - ESPN

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons approached Jalen Hurts for a postgame dap-up following Philadelphia's 24-20 come-from-behind win Sunday and the Eagles' quarterback was ready for him.

«You started that s---,» Hurts said with a smile, taking a break from his postgame interview to address Simmons. «I had to finish it.»

The two exchanged words after that, but Hurts made it clear that he had heard Simmons' comments to reporters earlier in the week, when Simmons told reporters: «We just need to make Jalen Hurts be a QB. Stop his runs, make sure Hurts doesn't get out of the pocket and make plays.»

Hurts got the last word, engineering a nine-play, 65-yard drive in the closing minutes and hitting receiver Darius Cooper for a 3-yard touchdown pass with nine seconds left to lift the Eagles to a 2-0 record.

«I love our guys so of course my natural instinct is, 'Oh, I want to fight,'» coach Nick Sirianni said after the game. «But when you get wrapped into the battle of words or revenge or whatever it is, anger, that s--- lasts about two minutes in a game. It does. At the end of the day, the fundamentals take over, the situational awareness takes over, you playing together as a team, your toughness takes over, because that all fades.»

Simmons added further context to his original comments postgame.

«He's a Super Bowl MVP,» Simmons said. «That wasn't no shot at Jalen. The thing was if we could keep him in the pocket and eliminate him from scrambling and running, making him go sideways, we could be successful especially getting them to third down.

»We saw Jalen would try to make something happen downfield and take off running. You see it all over his tape. That was my point of making Jalen Hurts stay