WR A.J. Brown, PHI (8 Viewers)

[Alex P Keaton]

What’s gross is that Brown makes tens of millions a year and he’s acting like a baby. If the Eagles asked him to scrub the toilets he should grab a brush and do it. He’s making a ton of money. He should STFU and go do his job.

Whoa! Out of touch much?

Dude's got the money and the ring... and now he wants to get to the Hall of Fame - and his QB's relevance is based on a tush push.

I have zero respect for how Brown is handling himself. Zero.

Same page here. I'm not even sure what he wants. He was getting plenty of targets up until this last game. He just wasn't doing much with them.

Again to me it goes back to the game where the Eagles ran that trick play to Goedert inside the 5 and everyone was complaining about him not getting the target instead. The previous time they were in the redzone in that game he DID get the target on 3rd down, and he stumbled and awkwardly fell over like a drunken oaf, and then laughed about it like he didn't care.

They won the Super Bowl last year. They're 7-2 this year. He's on pace for 115 targets which is the 3rd highest of his career despite being banged up and not 100% in several games.

His QB bypassed him wide open multiple times against GB. And then threw him a jump ball — btw the throw was off target, too short — on the key 4th down play late in the game. That last ball was his 3rd target in a game where they scored 10 points. But again, yeah, AJB is the problem here.

 

[taylormeetstheismann]

What’s gross is that Brown makes tens of millions a year and he’s acting like a baby. If the Eagles asked him to scrub the toilets he should grab a brush and do it. He’s making a ton of money. He should STFU and go do his job.

Whoa! Out of touch much?

Dude's got the money and the ring... and now he wants to get to the Hall of Fame - and his QB's relevance is based on a tush push.

I have zero respect for how Brown is handling himself. Zero.

Same page here. I'm not even sure what he wants. He was getting plenty of targets up until this last game. He just wasn't doing much with them.

Again to me it goes back to the game where the Eagles ran that trick play to Goedert inside the 5 and everyone was complaining about him not getting the target instead. The previous time they were in the redzone in that game he DID get the target on 3rd down, and he stumbled and awkwardly fell over like a drunken oaf, and then laughed about it like he didn't care.

They won the Super Bowl last year. They're 7-2 this year. He's on pace for 115 targets which is the 3rd highest of his career despite being banged up and not 100% in several games.

His QB bypassed him wide open multiple times against GB. And then threw him a jump ball — btw the throw was off target, too short — on the key 4th down play late in the game. That last ball was his 3rd target in a game where they scored 10 points. But again, yeah, AJB is the problem here.

It’s AJB’s attitude that’s so unlikeable. The Eagles are winning so in that sense, they are doing fine.

 

[rockaction]

AJ was ignored when open, but also certainly had some low effort plays. The 4th down play at the end of the game was disappointing on many levels, but AJ makes an effort, he probably catches it or draws PI. Instead, he just kinda stuck a hand out.

Obviously, it won't be this bad every week, and the schedule is nice going forward. But its 1A/1B at this point, and AJ is the 1B.

This is why I said what I said about Barrett Robbins of the Raiders in the game thread. They'd better go his way or get him on the page, or he's sinking this team in the end. Or he sits and they go to Devonta, who is good enough. But AJ ain't even running at times. I've seen the video. He just jogs.

You can't do that. That's awful for the team. The other team doesn't have to honor his presence and route running. The Eagles are partly built on stretching the other team vertically and he jogs?

Big issues in Philly. I know people will say I'm a hater—and I freely and overtly admit it—but man, they have problems. The coach needs to take away the play calling from the OC and figure this out.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

What’s gross is that Brown makes tens of millions a year and he’s acting like a baby. If the Eagles asked him to scrub the toilets he should grab a brush and do it. He’s making a ton of money. He should STFU and go do his job.

Whoa! Out of touch much?

Dude's got the money and the ring... and now he wants to get to the Hall of Fame - and his QB's relevance is based on a tush push.

I have zero respect for how Brown is handling himself. Zero.

Same page here. I'm not even sure what he wants. He was getting plenty of targets up until this last game. He just wasn't doing much with them.

Again to me it goes back to the game where the Eagles ran that trick play to Goedert inside the 5 and everyone was complaining about him not getting the target instead. The previous time they were in the redzone in that game he DID get the target on 3rd down, and he stumbled and awkwardly fell over like a drunken oaf, and then laughed about it like he didn't care.

They won the Super Bowl last year. They're 7-2 this year. He's on pace for 115 targets which is the 3rd highest of his career despite being banged up and not 100% in several games.

His QB bypassed him wide open multiple times against GB. And then threw him a jump ball — btw the throw was off target, too short — on the key 4th down play late in the game. That last ball was his 3rd target in a game where they scored 10 points. But again, yeah, AJB is the problem here.

It’s AJB’s attitude that’s so unlikeable. The Eagles are winning so in that sense, they are doing fine.

10 pts. Yep. All good.

 

[steelwind]

Watched the AJB interview from today and I agree with him.
It's a new season.
You can't just get by later in the year. You have to score offense.
He just wants to contribute. He wants the offense to contribute. And not have to always rely on their defense.
I don't find anything he said insulting or selfish.

 

[unckeyherb]

Watched the AJB interview from today and I agree with him.
It's a new season.
You can't just get by later in the year. You have to score offense.
He just wants to contribute. He wants the offense to contribute. And not have to always rely on their defense.
I don't find anything he said insulting or selfish.

He called the eagles offense a “**** show”. What are you talking about? It’s beyond insulting. Whether you think he right or not is irrelevant. Keep that **** in house.

 

[rockaction]

Watched the AJB interview from today and I agree with him.
It's a new season.
You can't just get by later in the year. You have to score offense.
He just wants to contribute. He wants the offense to contribute. And not have to always rely on their defense.
I don't find anything he said insulting or selfish.

He called the eagles offense a “**** show”. What are you talking about? It’s beyond insulting. Whether you think he right or not is irrelevant. Keep that **** in house.

Yeah, probably because I hate the Eagles but maybe he doesn't want to get older and have to not only be on the team, but also be a top player in the league who is inexplicably uninvolved while they have a chance for a dynasty that they're wasting (they are).

The coach? Awful. Should have been fired yesterday.

 

[rockaction]

It's a joke, and now Howie's looking dumber every day that goes by that the OC (I won't even bother to learn who—I did know at one point but he has a voweled-ending name like mine) and Sirianni are coaching.

 

[steelwind]

Watched the AJB interview from today and I agree with him.
It's a new season.
You can't just get by later in the year. You have to score offense.
He just wants to contribute. He wants the offense to contribute. And not have to always rely on their defense.
I don't find anything he said insulting or selfish.

He called the eagles offense a “**** show”. What are you talking about? It’s beyond insulting. Whether you think he right or not is irrelevant. Keep that **** in house.

He never said “**** show” in the interview. That’s the Madden stream you are talking about.

 

[unckeyherb]

Watched the AJB interview from today and I agree with him.
It's a new season.
You can't just get by later in the year. You have to score offense.
He just wants to contribute. He wants the offense to contribute. And not have to always rely on their defense.
I don't find anything he said insulting or selfish.

He called the eagles offense a “**** show”. What are you talking about? It’s beyond insulting. Whether you think he right or not is irrelevant. Keep that **** in house.

Yeah, probably because I hate the Eagles but maybe he doesn't want to get older and have to not only be on the team, but also be a top player in the league who is inexplicably uninvolved while they have a chance for a dynasty that they're wasting (they are).

The coach? Awful. Should have been fired yesterday.

They just won the Super Bowl. They’re the #1 team in the NFC and are like 3games up in their division. The coach is the winningest coach in his first five years in the history of the league outside of Lambeau. Again I don’t know what anyone is talking about.

 

[unckeyherb]

Watched the AJB interview from today and I agree with him.
It's a new season.
You can't just get by later in the year. You have to score offense.
He just wants to contribute. He wants the offense to contribute. And not have to always rely on their defense.
I don't find anything he said insulting or selfish.

He called the eagles offense a “**** show”. What are you talking about? It’s beyond insulting. Whether you think he right or not is irrelevant. Keep that **** in house.

He never said “**** show” in the interview. That’s the Madden stream you are talking about.

But…he did say it, right?

 

[LawFitz]

His methods for expressing his frustrations are less than optimal, but his core message is resonant. Need to play better offense than they have if they truly expect to compete to repeat. Rest of everything can be cast aside as noise if the locker room can coalesce around that message. Ideally. We shall see...

 

[Dizzy]

What’s gross is that Brown makes tens of millions a year and he’s acting like a baby. If the Eagles asked him to scrub the toilets he should grab a brush and do it. He’s making a ton of money. He should STFU and go do his job.

Whoa! Out of touch much?

Dude's got the money and the ring... and now he wants to get to the Hall of Fame - and his QB's relevance is based on a tush push.

I have zero respect for how Brown is handling himself. Zero.

Well I'm sure that keeps up at night.

 

[rockaction]

Watched the AJB interview from today and I agree with him.
It's a new season.
You can't just get by later in the year. You have to score offense.
He just wants to contribute. He wants the offense to contribute. And not have to always rely on their defense.
I don't find anything he said insulting or selfish.

He called the eagles offense a “**** show”. What are you talking about? It’s beyond insulting. Whether you think he right or not is irrelevant. Keep that **** in house.

Yeah, probably because I hate the Eagles but maybe he doesn't want to get older and have to not only be on the team, but also be a top player in the league who is inexplicably uninvolved while they have a chance for a dynasty that they're wasting (they are).

The coach? Awful. Should have been fired yesterday.

They just won the Super Bowl. They’re the #1 team in the NFC and are like 3games up in their division. The coach is the winningest coach in his first five years in the history of the league outside of Lambeau. Again I don’t know what anyone is talking about.

They fired the guy from the Nuggets because the GM thought he was an obdurate fool and he had won a championship a year or so before. "Yep. Nope. You're an idiot. You're fired."

They fired Grady Little and he reached Game 7 of the ALCS. They didn't even wait another year. Just . . . you gone. That was because, in part, that dumb bumpkin choked away a sure win on a Friday night in June of 2003 when the Sox sent a record-setting 19+ guys to the pate in the first inning, not making an out for over eleven (?) batters to lead off a game. Anyway, Grady’s buddy, Jack McKeon, got all sore and Grady decided to pander to him when ole "Trader Jack" complained the Sox were "running up the score.” Grady and Jack, see, were "fishing buddies" down in dem ole Carolinas dere, and Grady shore was all sorry, Jack.

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"’I’ll tell you what … if I get an 18-run lead tomorrow, you can bet your sweet *** we will not steal bases and we will hold the runners up one base at a time,’ McKeon said. ‘OK? Mark it. Put it in your book. Put it in your pipe and smoke it for the future. We will not show the other team up.'

Little and McKeon live near each other in North Carolina and they socialize in the winter. Before the game Saturday, Little said the Red Sox crossed an unspoken line by scoring so many runs Friday." - June 29, 2003

Well it just so happens that Grady had the boys stop playing the game the next day on a Saturday afternoon when the Sox were up 9-2 in the 7th, and shore as Southern spitfire, ole "Trader Jack" McKeon and the Fish won in a comeback, 10-9. Sox lose.

That's after I saw Grady say something to the guys in the seventh in the dugout. He called it off. Check the box score. Up 9-2, the Sox brought in Wakefield to give up four, and then scared, brought in the closer and he gave it up.

MARLINS SETTLE THE SCORE

Disgraced and humiliated on Friday night, the Florida Marlins were teetering toward another loss to the Red Sox 24 hours later. As run after run crossed the plate in the sixth inning Saturday night…

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Here's what the guy that owns/owned the Sox thought of it.

RED SOX MANAGER APOLOGETIC

After watching his team score 25 runs Friday night, Boston Red Sox manager Grady Little was contrite Saturday. Little said he spoke to a few of his players about running up the score in their 25-8 …

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What did McKeon do two days later? Beats Atlanta 20 to 2. You think he apologized like Grady had afterwards, that stupid Southerner stammering on a Saturday? No, Jack, laughed all the way to Filly after they kicked Atlanta's ***.

Oh, and up about 16? Yeah, well Jackie certainly didn’t hold the runners to “one base at a time.” They scored 4 in the 7th, and 3 of them scored from second (they were doubles, and you should score, but it certainly was not holding the runners to one base at a time), and 2 in the 8th when they were up 18-1, which leads me to this question: What's Miguel Cabrera doing in the game up 18-1 in the 8th, Jackie, swinging for the downs, no less. Wasn’t that bad sportsmanship twenty years prior? It was, wasn’t it? LOL.

Look at dem boys, Grady, running more than one base down in Atlanta dere. Wanna clarify the unwritten rules for us and apologize for your buddy, you genius?

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Never, ever, let a moron like Grady Little run your team. No matter how good you think they are. It winds up with colossal stupidity and heartbreak. Remember when you guys were all pissy getting stomped on because Sirianni brought in garbage at OC and DC? And Howie said enough of this garbage at OC and DC. Let's get you some real footballers again as a condition of your employe?

Sirianni is a clown with bad management skills and poor personnel choices. He does better at coaching than I would, but I know the reek of the obstinate when I smell it. It wafts over the affected area like an old tuna fish sandwich in MOP’s Reddited AMC Hodl-style movie theaters. It’s that Spanish chick in your night class that violates the “stinky food” rule and complains the rule is laaaacist. On second thought, those Mookie Of The Years in Philly chanting "Fire Howie" at the "Linc" that summer? Yeah, that's about the Filly Fafeful's collective IQ in a broken nutshell. Maybe Howie thinks to himself, “Keep Sirianni. He’s perfect for these broccoli rabe lovin’, Independence Hall-going, park like Freeway in the middle of the street clowns.” The Flatulentious Fanaticism of the Filly Fafeful. Love how it smells like Saturday’s steamed-up pissandra on South Street.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

What’s gross is that Brown makes tens of millions a year and he’s acting like a baby. If the Eagles asked him to scrub the toilets he should grab a brush and do it. He’s making a ton of money. He should STFU and go do his job.

Whoa! Out of touch much?

Dude's got the money and the ring... and now he wants to get to the Hall of Fame - and his QB's relevance is based on a tush push.

I have zero respect for how Brown is handling himself. Zero.

Same page here. I'm not even sure what he wants. He was getting plenty of targets up until this last game. He just wasn't doing much with them.

Again to me it goes back to the game where the Eagles ran that trick play to Goedert inside the 5 and everyone was complaining about him not getting the target instead. The previous time they were in the redzone in that game he DID get the target on 3rd down, and he stumbled and awkwardly fell over like a drunken oaf, and then laughed about it like he didn't care.

They won the Super Bowl last year. They're 7-2 this year. He's on pace for 115 targets which is the 3rd highest of his career despite being banged up and not 100% in several games.

His QB bypassed him wide open multiple times against GB. And then threw him a jump ball — btw the throw was off target, too short — on the key 4th down play late in the game. That last ball was his 3rd target in a game where they scored 10 points. But again, yeah, AJB is the problem here.

Sometimes games work out weird. He's gotten pretty consistent targets throughout most of the rest of the year. Maybe he didn't get many targets this week because he's been lazy and ineffective with the targets he has gotten.

AJB
Catch rate: 57%
YPT: 7.5

DeVonta
Catch rate: 77%
YPT: 10.6

DeVonta's targets have been trending upwards the last month while AJB's trend down. And it's not surprising. One guy is lazy and ineffective with his targets and whines constantly while acting selfish. The other guy is way more effective with his targets, doesn't cry like a baby when he "only" gets 9 targets, and appears to be a team first player.

Maybe if AJB wants more targets he should start doing more with the ones he gets like his compatriot on the other side of the field is doing.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

What’s gross is that Brown makes tens of millions a year and he’s acting like a baby. If the Eagles asked him to scrub the toilets he should grab a brush and do it. He’s making a ton of money. He should STFU and go do his job.

Whoa! Out of touch much?

Dude's got the money and the ring... and now he wants to get to the Hall of Fame - and his QB's relevance is based on a tush push.

I have zero respect for how Brown is handling himself. Zero.

Same page here. I'm not even sure what he wants. He was getting plenty of targets up until this last game. He just wasn't doing much with them.

Again to me it goes back to the game where the Eagles ran that trick play to Goedert inside the 5 and everyone was complaining about him not getting the target instead. The previous time they were in the redzone in that game he DID get the target on 3rd down, and he stumbled and awkwardly fell over like a drunken oaf, and then laughed about it like he didn't care.

They won the Super Bowl last year. They're 7-2 this year. He's on pace for 115 targets which is the 3rd highest of his career despite being banged up and not 100% in several games.

His QB bypassed him wide open multiple times against GB. And then threw him a jump ball — btw the throw was off target, too short — on the key 4th down play late in the game. That last ball was his 3rd target in a game where they scored 10 points. But again, yeah, AJB is the problem here.

Sometimes games work out weird. He's gotten pretty consistent targets throughout most of the rest of the year. Maybe he didn't get many targets this week because he's been lazy and ineffective with the targets he has gotten.

AJB
Catch rate: 57%
YPT: 7.5

DeVonta
Catch rate: 77%
YPT: 10.6

DeVonta's targets have been trending upwards the last month while AJB's trend down. And it's not surprising. One guy is lazy and ineffective with his targets and whines constantly while acting selfish. The other guy is way more effective with his targets, doesn't cry like a baby when he "only" gets 9 targets, and appears to be a team first player.

Maybe if AJB wants more targets he should start doing more with the ones he gets like his compatriot on the other side of the field is doing.

10 points. Missed his star WR wide open multiple times. Yep. Hurts is firing on all cylinders and AJB is the issue.

Stats are just stats. Context matters. He’s ignoring AJB wide open and giving him lower quality targets.

 

[Kuz]

should be an interesting game this week. The Lions offense looks good but so does the Eagles defense. I do think they need to score & if AJ isn't part of the plan this week then he's most likely done for the year at producing

 

[dkp993]

What’s gross is that Brown makes tens of millions a year and he’s acting like a baby. If the Eagles asked him to scrub the toilets he should grab a brush and do it. He’s making a ton of money. He should STFU and go do his job.

Whoa! Out of touch much?

Dude's got the money and the ring... and now he wants to get to the Hall of Fame - and his QB's relevance is based on a tush push.

I have zero respect for how Brown is handling himself. Zero.

Same page here. I'm not even sure what he wants. He was getting plenty of targets up until this last game. He just wasn't doing much with them.

Again to me it goes back to the game where the Eagles ran that trick play to Goedert inside the 5 and everyone was complaining about him not getting the target instead. The previous time they were in the redzone in that game he DID get the target on 3rd down, and he stumbled and awkwardly fell over like a drunken oaf, and then laughed about it like he didn't care.

They won the Super Bowl last year. They're 7-2 this year. He's on pace for 115 targets which is the 3rd highest of his career despite being banged up and not 100% in several games.

His QB bypassed him wide open multiple times against GB. And then threw him a jump ball — btw the throw was off target, too short — on the key 4th down play late in the game. That last ball was his 3rd target in a game where they scored 10 points. But again, yeah, AJB is the problem here.

Sometimes games work out weird. He's gotten pretty consistent targets throughout most of the rest of the year. Maybe he didn't get many targets this week because he's been lazy and ineffective with the targets he has gotten.

AJB
Catch rate: 57%
YPT: 7.5

DeVonta
Catch rate: 77%
YPT: 10.6

DeVonta's targets have been trending upwards the last month while AJB's trend down. And it's not surprising. One guy is lazy and ineffective with his targets and whines constantly while acting selfish. The other guy is way more effective with his targets, doesn't cry like a baby when he "only" gets 9 targets, and appears to be a team first player.

Maybe if AJB wants more targets he should start doing more with the ones he gets like his compatriot on the other side of the field is doing.

As always, context is important. While yes those catch rates are accurate, what isn’t mentioned is not all targets are equal. Catchable targets is what adds the needed context.

Catchable target rate for DeVonta on the year, 79%. AJB, 54%.

Purely looking at “targets” can be incredibly deceptive, I pointed this out a few weeks ago in the game where I think he got nine targets but at least five of those were either overthrows out of bounds with a 0% chance of catching it or an incredibly off target throw with similar odds. The 54% catch-ability rate for the season shows this is happening frequently.

The chemistry is clearly off between him and Hurts, and my guess is both are to blame.