Who's To Blame Over Jalen Hurts' Blood Clot: This Week In Philly Sports

PHILADELPHIA — We are all playing Monday Morning Quarterback over our quarterback.

As the Philadelphia Eagles prepare to play the Dallas Cowboys on "Monday Night Football" in hopes of breaking a four-game losing streak, the national sports spotlight is shining on this team.

Quarterback Jalen Hurts is on the shelf for the rest of the season with blood clots in his lungs.

Meanwhile, the national and local sports media is questioning how and why a player could play in London with a blood clot diagnosis and then fly back home — and how the whole thing has been handled.

Who's To Blame??

The fingers are pointing in every direction.

The Philadelphia Eagles? The NFL? Jalen Hurts? The team's medical staff? Coach Nick Sirianni? General Manager Howie Roseman? Carson Wentz?

Everyone has answers and opinions. Everyone seems to suddenly have become a medical expert. Everyone wants someone to blame.

The NFL has already cleared the Eagles. The NFL Players Association, though, wants a thorough investigation — as there should be.

Should Hurts have played in London? Should he have flown home after the game?

This wasn't a shoulder injury. This was a blood clot.

Does it matter that the blood clot was diagnosed as superficial?

Who cares what it was. Should Hurts have been shut down due to the seriousness of any blood clot? If you and me had a blood clot, would we play in a football game?

The Philadelphia Eagles have certainly made some bad moves here, at least on the public relations front.

Sirianni served as the sacrificial lamb, being placed in front of a Philly media firing squad with no answers to reveal. He's not a medical expert.

There was no Roseman or a doctor to explain the situation. Shame on the Eagles for leaving the coach to take the bullets. They hung him out to dry.

This is the franchise quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles. This is the player who took the team to two Super Bowls, something no other quarterback has done in franchise history.

Next to Nick Foles, this is the man who was named MVP for winning the second Super Bowl in franchise history.

Shouldn't an immediate diagnosis of a blood clot, no matter it being superficial, been enough to take caution?

Hurts shouldn't have played. He shouldn't have flown. That's the bottom line.

This is someone's life we are talking about.

Everyone has gone to the podium saying that a player's health is the most important — more important than playing a football game.

Jalen Hurts is out for the season. He's on blood thinners for blood clots that have moved into his lungs.

There are still more questions than answers and we all may never know what happened and how it happened.

Who's to Blame? We just may never know.