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Never have seen such an elite player ignored and underutilized to this extent.
If by nuclear you meant destroy every fantasy team starting him then congrats on this call.
Man I was way wrong on this, but who could have predicted a 10-7 game at the same time. Just a terrible fantasy game for anyone involved.
Yep. Brutal. I had 4 players going last night including AJB.
You are correct. That said, did you see anything at all promising? We will soon be thru the bye week madness and the decision to start AJ will be tough.
Halfway through the season, Davonta is ranked WR12 with 109.7 points in my league. AJ Brown is ranked WR40 with 74.30 points.
Interesting that one big game separtes being a WR1 from bench fodder. I guess this separation will open up but it seems like we are deep in the season.
Really clear that either AJB is cooked or Hurts just hates him.
Brown is not cooked. We have seen him open time and time again. Hurts rarely looks his way. That's the problem.
Yup. He hates AJB.
I did not. In fact, I became more pessimistic. Coming out of a bye week, I was expecting them to be fired up with new stuff, building on the previous weeks of success and they came out with what seemed like a very basic offensive game plan with not much creativity at all. Again.
This is what I thought as well. Their offense is boring. Just line up and go.
The Philly offensive coordinator may have had his worst game of the year last night. He really did try his hardest to cost them the game with his ultra conservative play calling. I’m curious what his rationale was for that.
It’s tough because one of his most explosive weapons gets ignored even when wide open. AJB was wide open for 20-30 yards multiple times. Hurts just didn’t even look at him.
I think the reality is that Hurts has become more and more conservative in his play since 2023. Davonta is a knife thru butter with his route running. AJB is a battering ram that does not get the same separation as Smith. A big part of what makes Brown so good is his ability to win 50/50 balls. I think Jalen doesn’t look his way as much because in his mind a 50/50 ball is just that-a coin flip that results in a big play or a pick. (I’m not saying that I think that/far from it) but Jalen knows that when he doesn’t turn the ball over they basically never lose. It’s that simple IMO.
We have a defense that for most of the game was blanking the home team. Ball control, win the TO battle and play lights out defense was clearly their MO last night as it usually is.
But some of his decisions made no sense at all. Like at the end of the first half, what is the downside of attempting to get into FG range?
I agree. I’m defending, just saying what I think is happening .
Exactly. No matter how good the defense is playing, the mindset of a coach cannot be that they’re content only scoring 10 points because they know the other team can’t score that many. That game was a coin flip and mainly because of the conservative coaching. I believe Philly was the better team and should have won that game more convincingly.
Bench. Hes had what 2 good games?
How do you explain the five straight weeks this year that Brown got 8+ targets? I guess something could have gotten worse between them since then.
Tough pill to swallow, was always a risk with how they structured those deals but looks like if he's traded before June 1 it's $43m dead money and more importantly $20m off the cap. But I think they'll figure it out.
Seriously though? If this is someone's first year following the NFL sure they might conclude that.
Based on priorities and commitment to winning, they appear to be polar opposites. At some point, it will blow up. But yes Jalen cares about winning so he will likely push this under the rug for now.
