Hurts is sometimes asked to play a perfect brand of football, while Kirk Cousins, Brock Purdy, and others are judged with a lower standard. Hurts has been the NFL’s most consistent winner since the 2022 season and has the best won-loss record in the NFC since that time.

“We just got it rolling,” Eagles quarterback J alen Hurts said. “We were able to get some positive plays. When you’re able to get completions, keep the sticks moving, keep progressing and then impose your physicality at the end of it, that’s what it comes down to.”

Schedule, circumstances, and matchups. They are three of the more underrated differentiators between success and failure in the NFL. They are three reasons to think the Eagles’ six-game winning streak will be in serious jeopardy against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.