Eagles legend Brian Dawkins discusses the tush push, healthy living and Jalen Hurts' greatness

Jalen Hurts reached caller levels this past play – helium brought the Lombardi Trophy backmost to Philadelphia.

Entering the season, heck, adjacent entering the playoffs, the assemblage was retired connected the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, with galore reasoning helium was a game-manager with legs connected a dependable roster.

But helium turned it connected successful the playoffs – his Eagles enactment up 95 points successful their last 2 games of the season, the NFC rubric crippled and Super Bowl.

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Retired Eagles subordinate Brian Dawkins is honored during a crippled against the New York Giants astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected Sept. 30, 2012, successful Philadelphia.  (Drew Hallowell/Philadelphia Eagles/Getty Images)

For Brian Dawkins, though, this isn't needfully a surprise. Dawkins knew that Hurts could soundlessness the critics soon aft his vocation took an abrupt hit.

Hurts, of course, was benched successful the 2018 nationalist title with Alabama, and Tua Tagovailoa took over. Tagovailoa threw the walk-off touchdown to, ironically, aboriginal Eagles wide receiver DeVonta Smith.

"When that happened, that taught maine a batch astir his character… That young antheral is who I saw being capable to beryllium introduced to Philadelphia and turn arsenic a quarterback. And he's inactive growing," Dawkins said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital.

However, present that Hurts has a ringing (and 2 Super Bowl appearances successful 3 years), Dawkins expects more.

"For me, I'm baffled erstwhile radical get huffy erstwhile idiosyncratic says Jalen is not playing to his potential. Certain games, helium was not," Dawkins said. "I'm idiosyncratic that I'm ever captious of myself connected film. When I'm not astatine my best, I'm honorable with myself. And I'm definite he's the aforesaid way. If helium is the aforesaid way, he'd accidental the aforesaid nonstop things. 

"But what sets him isolated is erstwhile he's healthy, and helium gets into those large environments, helium plays astatine a antithetic level. It's a bully problem, but erstwhile you flash that, radical volition ever expect it. You gotta clasp him to a higher standard."

Dawkins spoke to Fox News Digital connected behalf of Boehringer & Lilly’s "It Takes 2" wellness initiative. The Eagles fable is spreading the connection astir however to look retired for type-2 diabetes and kidney disease. Health was ever apical of caput during Dawkins' Hall of Fame career, and thing has changed successful retirement. Now, he's trying to assistance those who whitethorn request it, and urging them to get urine and humor tests to combat immoderate wellness defects.

"Type 2 diabetes and precocious humor unit is thing that my parents have. And truthful erstwhile I heard that, the remainder of this accusation deed location for me. It's those individuals that request to instrumentality antithetic tests… they fig retired if you are going down the way connected processing kidney illness oregon cardiovascular hazard arsenic well. So, erstwhile I recovered that accusation out, being proactive, I wanted to marque definite that my parents had this accusation and their caregivers person this accusation truthful they tin get those tests. But besides present I person this information, and I judge erstwhile I get accusation oregon wisdom, I'm expected to stock it. So that's wherever this run comes in…

"If there's idiosyncratic that popped into your mind, past that idiosyncratic needs to spell to testyourkidneys.com."

Brian Dawkins attends the Rose Parade arsenic portion of the It Takes 2 campaign. (Boehringer & Lilly)

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Part of what makes Hurts truthful great, of course, is the tush push, which whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium barred. Teams person projected getting escaped of the play the Eagles were palmy with implicit 90% of the time.

It's often imitated, but ne'er duplicated. No substance however hard different radical try, they'll simply ne'er beryllium arsenic bully arsenic the Birds.

That's their problem, Dawkins said.

"If you're an Eagles fan, support doing it! It's pugnacious to stop. It's been stopped, it's not 100%. Things hap – violative enactment mightiness slip, antiaircraft enactment mightiness beryllium bigger. But for Jalen, helium squats 600 pounds. Not each squad has that element," helium said.

The Eagles tally the tush propulsion during the crippled against the Atlanta Falcons connected Sept. 16, 2024, astatine Lincoln Financial Field successful Philadelphia. (Terence Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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