Sign up now ><\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWhatever we did last year, that\u2019s in the rear-view mirror, that doesn\u2019t matter anymore,\u201d Mailata said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not defending nothing. We\u2019re not the defending champs. We\u2019re the 2024 world champs and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not defending s***. Sorry, we\u2019re not.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just won the title, and now we\u2019ve got to go and win it all over again, and that\u2019s the mentality this team is going to have.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not here to prove anything to anyone else but ourselves, and we know the mission. We\u2019re mission-focused.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s our approach, and I\u2019m so proud of everyone here, because they\u2019re buying into what we\u2019re selling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts echoed his teammates sentiments: \u201cIt\u2019s a new journey. It\u2019s a new season, and those things are far behind us.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe past is behind us, and the future is too far away, so we have to stay present and worry about right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mailata was selected by Philadelphia with the 233rd pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. Last year, he signed a three-year, US$66 million (AU$100 million) contract extension with the Eagles.<\/p>\n
Recently, sports analytics company Pro Football Focus, which analyses enormous volumes of data and ranks players across the NFL, ranked Mailata as the No. 1 offensive lineman in the sport<\/a> and the 11th player overall. His grading of 95.1 is the second-highest ever handed to an offensive lineman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia offensive tackle Jordan Mailata doesn\u2019t want the Eagles to be referred to as \u201cdefending champs\u201d ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-17738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}