Chris Simms Thinks Teams Should Go Headhunting On Jalen Hurts
Chris Simms, henceforth known only as Phil Simms’ son, has quickly become one of the most hated media figures by Eagles fans. He has been a Jalen Hurts hater from the start. To be fair, two seasons ago lots of people had no faith in Hurts. But most came around and admitted they were wrong after how well he played last year. Not Simms. The poster boy for nepotism stubbornly stuck by his take on Hurts all last season, even going as far as to say there is not much of a gap between Hurts and Daniel Jones. But his latest anti-Hurts take went too far. It took Phil Simm’s son from just being an idiot perhaps best ignored, to a genuinely bad dude. Because now he is saying people should intentionally try and hurt him.
He tried to walk it back, but you can’t walk back from the word headhunting. Simms was genuinely thinking a team should take a shot at Hurts’ head. He said they should try and kill him. It took Mike Florio stepping in to make him realize how awful what he said was. But we got an insight into the type of person Phil Simm’s son is. And what he is is a terrible person. Simms meant what he said the first time.
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It’s bad enough when fans on some crappy fan blog say crap like this. But Simms is supposed to be a professional. He does Pre-Game stuff for NBC on Sunday Night Football. He has a platform. But no one who says crap like this is deserving of that platform. If you have such little respect for the players, that you would advocate from intentionally hurting someone, you should not have a job.
The awful takes you can forgive. Those are pathetic and it is sad that type of stuff sometimes works, but it’s not done with malice. You can even forgive Phil Simm’s son for the time he threw a little hissy fit when ESPN made fun of him for his awful takes on Jalen Hurts. That was hilarious and made him more worthy of pity than scorn. But saying teams should target Hurts’ head crosses the line.
Maybe he doesn’t have the proper respect for these players because he was never good enough to stick around in the NFL. Maybe the shame of failing to even come close to following in his father’s footsteps has made him so bitter when he sees someone else succeed, he takes it out on Hurts. Or maybe he is just an entitled jerk who only has a platform because of who his dad is. Simms has nothing worthwhile to say, so he has to rely on this type of crap to grab attention. Well, he is going to get it for saying something as awful as this.
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