Saw this pop up on the feed. It’s Britain Covey responding to a JAKIB Media clip where Barrett Brooks is referencing a recent Jeff McLane article about Jalen Hurts that contains quotes from the Eagles’ punt returner:

Okay, just so we have the story straight here, Covey was quoted in McLane’s story from 1/15, titled “Inside the makeup of Jalen Hurts: Overly stoic leader or just quiet and misunderstood?”

There’s a portion of the article that reads like this:

Because Hurts is all about football, most of his important interactions at NovaCare are overwhelmingly with Sirianni, offensive coordinator Brian Johnson, quarterbacks coach Alex Tanney, center Jason Kelce, receiver A.J. Brown, and (DeVonta) Smith.

But he isn’t exactly an island. Hurts does interact with players outside his circle. He’ll have lunch in the cafeteria with practice squad members, according to punt returner Britain Covey. He has relationships with various staff members, and even gave a shout-out to locker room attendant Tony Santiago during the Eagles’ playoff run a year ago.

The outgoing Covey, who may be the polar opposite of Hurts in temperament, is of the opinion that authenticity is most important when it comes to quarterbacks and head coaches.

“There’s always room for improvement. Being able to analyze yourself is very difficult and that’s when you need mentors to help you out,” Covey said. “So, yes, it’s not like Jalen is perfect. … I think it’s just better than the alternative of asking everyone what they think you should be or do, and then pretty soon an effort to become everything to everyone, you become no one.”

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“I’ve played for coaches before that claim to have an open-door policy and their door is always open, but they’re really intimidating,” Covey said. “And I think that Jalen is similar to that in that he has an open-door policy, but because of his personality, at times, if you haven’t been around him enough, it can be a little bit intimidating.”

So Barrett is more or less paraphrasing this section of the story, and Covey is disputing the paraphrasing, resulting in a clarification. Covey says in the article that “it can be a little bit intimidating” if you don’t know Jalen Hurts very well, but I don’t get the sense that he’s “scared” to be around Hurts or go talk to him.

McLane jumped in later to add to the clarity: