The Philadelphia Eagles will kick off their 2024 NFL campaign against the Green Bay Packers in Brazil on Friday night, and not all the players are enthusiastic about starting the season on another continent.

“No comment,” Eagles wide receiver DeVonta Smith said when asked on Sunday about traveling to Brazil.

When pressed about not being excited to play in South America, Smith said: “It’s football. Just line up.”

Philadelphia quarterback Jalen Hurts had a contrasting outlook to his former Alabama teammate’s.

“I think it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Hurts said on Monday. “Something to be very excited about — you know, the international stage. Brazil, from what I’ve heard, is a very amazing place, beautiful place, and a very, very passionate place as well when it comes to sports and their fans, and so I’m excited to get a taste of that.”

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Of course, that’s coming from the player whose likeness is emblazoned several stories tall as a mural on a building in Sao Paulo, where the Eagles and Packers will square off at Neo Quimica Arena at 7:15 p.m. CDT Friday.

“It’s pretty neat,” Hurts said of the mural. “Appreciate it.”

Philadelphia coach Nick Sirianni said the Eagles had a shared outlook on one aspect of the season-opening game.

“We’re going there to play and win a football game,” Sirianni said on Sunday. “That’s our goal. That’s only goal as we go down there. And so it’s just getting everybody in the right mindset of what you want, what you need to be when you go down there. It’s like you can control the things that you can control. Like, we’re going to Brazil to play. That’s what it is, and we’re excited about that. …

“I think that’s what the main thing that we’re all saying is we will control the things we need to control. And the team that — just like when a game rains. The team that handles the rain and looks at the rain as they’re ready for it is going to be able to play better in the rain. Well, that’s the same thing when you’re going to a neutral site, whether it’s London, whether it’s wherever it is.”

But Sao Paulo is about 1,200 miles farther from Philadelphia than London is.

“We’ve already talked about our plan of what the flight’s going to look like, what the post-flight’s going to look like,” Sirianni said, “with the IVs and different things like that because a flight like that can dehydrate you. But that’s our job.

“Again, the flight is what it is. The nine-hour flight is what it is — or whatever that’s going to be. Like, now control what you can control — your fluids getting in your body, like the IVs, the stretching, all the things that we’re going to do to make sure that we’re ready to go physically for this game.”

Hurts said he’d be following the guidance of the Philadelphia training staff to make sure he’s ready to play on Friday night.

“I’ll just take on the approach of whatever they tell us to do,” Hurts said. “They usually give us good – I don’t know if it’s a remedy – they give us things to do, the things to drink, the things to hydrate, good leg sleeves and whatnot and kind of treat it like a regular game. We’ll find out what the difference in nine to ten hours is. I think that’s how far it is. …

“But we’re excited. I’m excited. And it’s just a great opportunity for us.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.