Brandon Graham on his weekly WIP appearance just dropped this bombshell about Hurts and AJ Brown:
“They were friends, but things have changed…I don’t know the whole story.”
Gotta love it. Leave it to a veteran leader out for the season to stir the pot.
Maybe he did it intentionally. Unintentional/intentional leak so they hash things out. I’ve seen this before in club soccer and most of the time it works. Or maybe BG us just fed up with the BS from certain players
This was my first thought. BG doesn't have to worry about how leaking this affects his future, so get it out in the open so it has to be addressed.
100% he knew what he was doing. I listened to it live. He wasn't asked about Jalen or AJ. They opened up with the typical, "hey, you got a win and Saquon just broke the Eagles all time rushing record, yada yada." And BG was just like, "something's ****ed up between AJ and Jalen and they need to fix it NOW." He absolutely had an agenda-he saw whatever bs was happening behind the scenes last year and wasn't gonna let it fester like it did then.
Its obvious that he didn't have the go ahead from the brass because he immediately started walking it back afterward and was on the morning show today talking about how he is going to apologize to both Jalen and AJ before practice tomorrow. I am glad that its out there, but I'm kind of worried that this is going to blow up into something more than it needs to.
If we handle Pittsburgh on Sunday and Aj has a 9/125/1TD stat line, then maybe we all can breathe a little easier. But if we lose a close one and AJ has like, 4 catches on 4 targets for 55 yards and no TD's, we're in for some shirtless-sit ups-in-the-driveway-action and the season could implode from there very, very quickly.
This is supposed to be why Nick is the best-his relationships with his players. He is the guy that is supposed to be able to figure this stuff out. Andy couldn't do it with TO and Donovan. To this point, Nick apparently hasn't done it either and that makes me think whatever it is, its too big to fix.