That brings up memories that make me angry and sad.
There's a screen-grab much like that with players circled from the 2016 contest with lsu/bama, illustrating 3 blatant holds from the bama OL which comes right before Hurts escaped the pocket and scampered for the game's only TD.
I had nothing against Jalen Hurts, but I always thought he was just okay and if he didn't play on a team where everybody around him was substantially better than everyone else, he'd prove it. Sure enough, he gets to LSU who has a line that couldn't be put on skates and DBs who can cover, and whaddaya know, they score 10 pts, which should've been 3 or 6, depending on if they hit a FG there. But definitely shouldn't have allowed that TD to stand...you know....with the 3 blatant holds.
I still think of him that way with the Eagles. He's a better NFL qb than I thought he'd be, but he's still just okay at that level, but somehow the dirty birds have amassed the best lines in the NFL, which make everybody else that much better, and it frustrates me to hear broadcasters slobber over him. My only consolation was watching him at OU running into a team in the playoffs that forced him to be great and elevate team beyond the sum of its parts. He couldn't do it, or even come close.
But the thing that makes me the most angry and sad about those 3 unflagged holds is that even if they rightfully took that score away......we'd still have lost 3-0
