For Eagles fans wondering if Jalen Hurts’ latest injury, said to be a knee problem, is enough of an issue to warrant talk of him not playing against the Washington Commanders for an NFC championship Sunday, well … know this isn’t the regular season. And anything short of a recurrence of concussion symptoms won’t keep him off the field. But whether he makes it onto a much less snowy Lincoln Financial Field field Sunday is a far less complicated issue than one of what can Hurts still do once he’s there. Injuries aside, it’s mostly been a mixed bag of production for Hurts and the Eagles’ passing game. He beat a very good Matthew Stafford while essentially throwing for about one-third the number of Stafford’s yards Sunday in the Eagles’ 28-22 division round playoff win over the Los Angeles Rams. “We just didn’t connect,” Hurts said of a passing game that seemed wholly impacted by snowy weather that the Rams figured out. “We just didn’t connect this time around,” Hurts said again. “It’s been a minute in general since we’ve done that as a whole. So, holistically as an offense, we just want to go out there and take advantage of all the opportunities we have at hand and continue to learn from them.” Lesson No. 1: If Saquon Barkley played against the Rams every week, he’d have broken Eric Dickerson’s rushing record by Thanksgiving. Of course, that might only be a coincidence, but whatever Barkley is coached up to do against the Rams’ defense, know there will be a lot of studying for him this week of the Commanders’ defensive alignments. Lesson No. 2: It’ll be extra doses of Barkley, but the Eagles know the Commanders will key on him. So they have to bring different looks on offensive. The question remains, if Hurts is attached to the pocket because a knee problem is impacting his mobility, what will that mean for the offense of the favored Eagles? “‘Enough’ is never enough. Our performance today was enough to win, but enough is never enough in terms of the standards we have for ourselves and what we want to do,” Hurts said Sunday. “There’s always a hunger. There’s always a drive for more and this urge to continue to improve, and that’s how it will continue to be. At this point in the season, the number one thing is about improving. When you play the game, it’s about improving, but the number one thing in playoff ball is winning and finding ways to win the game. “We want to play complementary football, be able to find ways to win, and go out there and find a way to win.” The best way to win, of course, is for the Eagles’ elite defense to not allow Washington quarterback Jayden Daniels do what he did on Dec. 22, the game in which the Commanders got away with a helmet hit on Hurts to knock him out of the game and knock the Eagles off theirs. The defense should have responded better than letting Daniels finish with five touchdowns en route to a 36-33 win. Considering the way the Eagles defense has played this season, expect Daniels to have a much tougher time this week. Beyond that, there has to be Hurts as a semblance of himsef, not the guy holding onto the ball too long while the pocket dissolves around him. It would be nice to see him have a few more controlled roll-outs while being protected well enough to put the Commanders back on their heels. That’s a must in order to get Washington to turn off the heat on Barkley. It would be better to have Hurts healthy enough to be the guy who tore through the Rams early for a career-long 44-yard touchdown run. But then the weather changed, Hurts’ knee buckled and if not for Barkley’s 62- and 78-yard touchdown runs, the Eagles would have been talking about next season. This game against the oh-so familiar Commanders, a third meeting since mid-November, has to be won more by the tough Eagles quarterback’s will than by the running back’s thrill. All coach Nick Sirianni sort of said Monday was that Hurts’ health will be monitored. In talking about how Hurts seemed after paying a late visit to the medical tent Sunday, and with backup Kenny Pickett working hard to warm up, Barkley indicated he was inspired to see Hurts suddenly run out onto the field with a new brace on his knee, but ready to compete just the same. Maybe he soon took a safety, but the desire to win wasn’t knocked out of him. “I think Jalen came out as the warrior that he is,” Barkley said of Hurts. “He came out there and rode it out for us, and we got the win.” There were six games won by the Eagles during the season in which Hurts threw for less than 200 yards. Considering the conditions Sunday, and the way receivers like A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith couldn’t create space from the Rams defense and couldn’t hold onto balls they usually do, Hurts going 15 of 20 for 128 yards wasn’t bad after all. Of course, a banged-up Hurts brings so many other gifts. Leadership being the one that matters most.