How Jalen Hurts Pursuit of Perfection is a Gift and a Curse

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Being known as a perfectionist is one of those “gift and a curse” type of labels. While some admire someone with the drive to shoot for the stars, the raised expectations can also open you up to the criticism that comes from not reaching your goals. For Jalen Hurts, you also have to throw in the scrutiny that comes along with being one of the faces of the NFL, in one of its crown cities. So today, ahead of Hurts and the Eagles season debut, tonight against the Packers in Sao Paolo Brazil, Andscape’s Martenzie Johnson - fresh off spending the day with Hurts for an Andscape digital cover story - shares his thoughts on who the QB is at this point in his career, and explains how his pursuit of perfection defines his leadership in the locker room, and the way he manages his public persona. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Partteny Johnson you just got through wearing a bunch of clothes with an NFL quarterback in a warehouse
0:06.6	did you pick off the same rack he did because I saw y'all wearing the same gag on shirt in
0:10.9	different colors in your interview.
0:13.0	You know, thank you one for that because our budgets for our clothes
0:17.8	are very different, Clinton.
0:19.5	I got mine from Express.
0:20.8	I'm pretty sure his came from somewhere where they only make two of those ever. But no we did not
0:25.3	choose it but I did look good Jaylan a little good so I think it all came out pretty what.
0:29.7	That's of course Jaylan Hurts, quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles, your digital cover story for
0:34.6	Anscape is up right now. It is lovely. There are various videos, various looks.
0:40.0	And of course, there is the story in which your lead is fantastic and it says as follows.
0:45.4	Jaylen Hurts looks disgusted.
0:48.9	What had hurts in his fields, Tinsie? It was definitely not anything on the field that he was mad about because as you
0:58.1	said we were in a warehouse on the north side of Philly at the end of June at about 4 or 5 p.m. right and we're doing all this for the
1:06.0	Anske digital cover he has a photo shoot the video element to it our own interview that we were
1:11.6	setting up.
1:12.8	And then we have another video,
1:15.5	which was us eating crawfish.
1:20.3	The thing about crawfish is
1:21.8	I ought to smell them from a mile away.
1:23.5	I should smell them walking to the street.
1:25.5	And once I get to the backyard, the front yard, I know what time it is.
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