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The Philadelphia Eagles hire Press Taylor during the Chip Kelly era and transitioned him to the Doug Pederson show because of his innovative offensive mind.
Taylor recently promoted to the Eagles passing game coordinator, has been viewed around the NFL as one of the top young minds in football. A likely reason why Doug Pederson chose to promote Taylor and give him more influence inside the NovaCare Complex.
Hurts was drafted because the Eagles value the development of quarterbacks, but the Eagles quarterbacks coach may have actually forecasted the Hurts selections a few years prior.
Taylor spoke about his influence on the Eagles Super Bowl trick-play, ‘Philly Philly.’
On the play, Trey Burton tossed a touchdown pass to Nick Foles. While discussing the play, Taylor spoke about NFL offenses moving towards a phase where more than one passer was on the field at the same time.
“One of the big things will be having multiple people on the field who can throw the ball,” he said. “You’ve seen the ‘Philly Special,’ all the different versions of double passes. At some point, I could see something like that coming into play. I’m not saying we’re doing anything like that, but I do think it’s something that could happen with pushing the envelope.”
The knock-on Hurts has always been that he is not a prototypical NFL quarterback, and the Eagles will work to make him more than a run-first quarterback.
The Eagles referred to Hurts as a developmental quarterback and you have to assume that a few years down the road they’ll cash out with a nice compensatory pick after preparing him to lead his own franchise.
For now, he’ll learn from some sharp offensive minds, while fighting off questions about whether he’s the next coming of Dak Prescott or Nick Foles.
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