The reigning Super Bowl champions have a system quarterback and a game manager.

That would be Jalen Hurts, who has played brilliantly in two Super Bowls, with the Eagles blowing out the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in New Orleans in Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9.

Hurts completed 17 of 22 passes for 221 yards and two touchdowns, and rushed for 72 yards and 11 carries with another score in being named Most Valuable Player.

Which brings us to the supposedly disparaging faint praise which comes to quarterbacks that avoid turnovers, execute a system designed to fit their strengths and stay on top of things such as down, distance and the game clock.

All quarterbacks are in effect “system quarterbacks.” The Eagles’ system happens to use Hurts as a runner because he’s such a good run

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