Nick Wright mentioned he needed to reply to Jalen Hurts’ mother, Pamela, after an surprising run-in at Tremendous Bowl 2025.
Throughout Monday’s installment of “First Things First” on FS1, Wright recalled having a “tense” encounter with the Eagles quarterback’s mother, whom he mentioned scolded him for speaking “so bad” about her son on tv.
Wright defined that Pamela confronted him whereas at a Klutch Sports activities celebration the night time earlier than the Eagles dominated the Chiefs 40-22 and Hurts was named Tremendous Bowl MVP in New Orleans.
“I’m having a good time, I don’t work the next day, [having] a few drinks as most people are and a woman walks up to me and says ‘I need to ask you one question. Why do you talk so bad about Jalen Hurts?’” Wright — an unabashed Chiefs fan — advised his co-hosts Chris Broussard and Kevin Wildes.
“I used to be like, “Nicely I don’t assume I speak dangerous’… and she or he was not budging a bit.
“She’s like, ‘No, no, you do.’ And I mentioned , properly let me inform you the nice issues I mentioned about him. As soon as this goes on for five, 6, 7 minutes. I had a second of readability and I mentioned, ‘ma’am, can I ask you one query actual fast?’ I mentioned ‘are you Jalen Hurts’ mom?
“She said, ‘Yes I am.’ And it went on for another 15 minutes, where it was a very cordial but intense mother defending her child against someone who she thinks has been unfair to him. She ended it with this, ‘I just want to know what you’re going to say when he wins [on Sunday].’”
Wright went on to say that he’d have to attend and see how Hurts carried out, however he promised to be truthful in his evaluation.
“So to Mrs. Hurts and to anyone else, he was phenomenal,” Wright mentioned. “The Chiefs did do the factor that I feel that anybody who was assured the chiefs would in thought — cease [Eagles running back] Saquon [Barkley] and also you win. That’s the one factor they did successfully, sport play-wise and it didn’t work as a result of Jalen made each play that was requested about him.
“.. He is as impressive as a leader as just about anyone in the sport and the team he leads just had in my opinion a top five all-time Super Bowl performance by a team as far as what they did on both sides of the ball… I think it is unfair to say that [Bengals’] Joe [Burrow], [Ravens’] Lamar [Jackson] or [Bills’] Josh [Allen] are just definitively clearly in a different class than Jalen, I think he’s gotta be in that top five.”
Hurts, 26, performed lights out en path to his first Tremendous Bowl title at Caesars Superdome on Sunday.
He accomplished 17 of twenty-two passes for 221 yards with two touchdowns and one interception.
The 2-time Professional Bowl quarterback was additionally the Eagles’ main rusher with 72 yards on 11 makes an attempt for six.5 yards per carry.
The Eagles may have a Tremendous Bowl victory parade in Philadelphia on Friday.
