The Dallas Cowboys look like a team reborn after the Quinnen Williams trade, while the Philadelphia Eagles are spiraling after choking a multi-score lead on the road and losing on a nationally televised Black Friday game to the Chicago Bears that reopened the fight for the NFC East.
Cowboys fans can delight in the fact that Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is starting to regress to the mean after a few fluky victories bought him some extra cache as he tries to climb up the league's hypothetical power rankings. However, as Eagles fans are wont to do, Hurts is now the target of some bizarre benching takes from media talking heads.
A local Philadelphia sports radio host started to wonder aloud if the offense would look better with backup quarterback Tanner McKee in the lineup instead of Hurts. Think of how backwards the Eagles would have to be to even consider such a thing.
As the old saying goes, no one is ever more popular on a team than the backup quarterback. Even with all of the promise McKee has shown in limited action, the fact Eagles fans are even getting to this point shows just how badly the Cowboys broke their brain by coming from behind.
Cowboys fans have tolaugh at Eagles sports radio demanding Jalen Hurts benching
Joe Giglio: "I have started to privately wonder what the Eagles' offense would look like if Tanner McKee was playing quarterback. I don't think I'm the only one out there." 🤔 pic.twitter.com/M8dY4qMZB0
— SPORTSRADIO 94WIP (@SportsRadioWIP) December 2, 2025
Cowboys fans may often mock Hurts for his limitations as a pure pocket passer and inability to consistently win games with his arm alone, but he is a Super Bowl champion who is piling up dozens of touchdowns every year. He's still a very good quarterback, whereas McKee is not.
McKee got some action in Weeks 17 and 18 last season, throwing two touchdowns on three completions against the Cowboys and dicing up the eliminated New York Giants. The 6-6 McKee has a big arm, but his lack of mobility is a problem in his game. He is not better than Hurts, full stop.
What really happened is an offense that is already being sunk by the poor play calls of offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo ran into a Cowboys defense that has been remade on the fly. Williams and linebacker Logan Wilson are in, oft-maligned cornerback Kaiir Elam is out, and the Eagles have no answer for these upgrades.
No group can take the joy out of an eight-win team fresh off winning the Super Bowl quite like the notoriously difficult to please Eagles fanbase, as their apparent desire to get even the mighty Hurts sitting down shows how much the Cowboys' comeback got in their heads.