Seth Joyner says he woke up "pissed off" at the Eagles' Week 6 loss to the Jets on Sunday.
"I was kind of even keel on the postgame [show] last night, but I woke up this morning really pissed off."
"When you hold an offense to 244 yards, five sacks, you really can't blame the defensive side of the football," Joyner said on Monday's 94WIP Morning Show with Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie.
"This falls squarely on the shoulders of the offensive side. I'm not going to put it all on Jalen Hurts, but I am going to put a large part of it. Because when the coaches calls plays it is up to the most important and highest paid player on the field to execute. He did not execute. But I am also going to put a large part of the blame on the coaching staff...You cannot have your quarterback throw the ball 50 times in a football game."
Hurts completed 28 of 45 passes for 280 yards, but threw interceptions and rushed eight times as well. To Joyner's point, in a game the Eagles were leading throughout, they ran 69 total plays but only 14 running back handoffs were called, and only 10 to D'Andre Swift—his lowest mark since Week 1 when he did not really play.
To make things even more confusing, while the Jets were without their top two starting cornerbacks in Sunday's game, they are among the NFL's worst rushing defenses allowing 135.2 yards per game on the ground—and that mark includes their strong 80 rushing yards allowed game to the Eagles on Sunday.
"50 times? I mean you're asking for trouble," Joyner continued, referencing the amount of times Hurts was asked to drop back. "And I'm sick and damn tired of this mentality, 'Oh, you throw the ball early, then you get a lead.' The hell with that. You're a top two running football team in the National Football League. You ran the ball 48 and 40 times in Weeks 2 and 3...for over 200 yards. How in the hell do you go through a whole half of football and your running backs only touch the ball for a combined total of two to four times? That makes no sense!"