EAGLES DOCTORS TOLD HURTS NOT TO SLEEP, THEN STARTED HIM IN LONDON

Jalen Hurts is done for the year. The Eagles and his agent Nicole Lynn said Monday that the quarterback has deep vein thrombosis and bilateral pulmonary emboli, the medical phrasing for clots that traveled from his leg into both lungs. He's on blood thinners for at least three months, which rules out contact, which rules out football. The statement says his prognosis is very good with no expected long-term effects, and that's the only part of this anyone should actually be relieved about. Now the timeline Philly would rather you skip. Specialists in London diagnosed a superficial clot in his left calf and cleared him. Ian Rapoport reported Hurts was in a London hospital until 4 a.m. on game day and played without sleeping because sleep was a risk, and Tom Pelissero put him at roughly 36 hours awake at kickoff, though Lynn later told Pelissero that Hurts did sleep once he rejoined the team in a room the Eagles set aside at the stadium. Nap or no nap, a guy with a clot in his calf threw 40 passes that afternoon, went 21 of 40 for 220 and a touchdown in a 19-17 loss, and then got on a plane across an ocean. On Monday the organization made exactly one person available. Not Howie Roseman. Not the medical staff. Nick Sirianni, who pointed to the same doctors and trainers who got 21 of 22 starters available for the Super Bowl, a hell of a stat for a completely different press conference. Tanner McKee has the offense now after going 26 of 45 for 215 yards in a 25-14 loss to Carolina. Philly is 2-4 and has lost four straight.

Why you should give a shit: A clot the Eagles called "superficial" is now in both of Hurts' lungs, his season belongs to Tanner McKee, and the only guy the team sent out to explain any of it was the man who draws up the plays.