WR A.J. Brown, PHI (10 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.

 

[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.

 

[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.

I wrote this whole response about Grady Little and then started Bill Burring on Fily (I am almost unbelievably less funny, though) and it just sounded nuts, so I ate it. But my point is you can have a great team and win but still be a terrible coach. He's not the worst i've ever seen. Far from it. But he's terrible, and I don't care that he's won a Super Bowl. Grady Little might be the worst, most intelligence-challenged coach in baseball history, and he almost won the ALCS against the Yankees, and once they got rid of him, they won two with Terry Francona in four years. Like nothing. Done-zo. I'll post the loon rant, but first, this:

These are paragraphs from an article by Fily's own Marcus Hayes. These beat or opinion guys know the coaches and insiders the best. Check out this phrasing. From the Philadelphia Inquirer, reprinted. Feb. 20, 2025. Holy smoke.

Nick Sirianni regains control of Eagles staff, promotes Kevin Patullo to OC, hires another former underling - West Hawaii Today

Nick Sirianni regains control of Eagles staff, promotes Kevin Patullo to OC, hires another former underling – Sports | West Hawaii Today

www.westhawaiitoday.com

"PHILADELPHIA — “'See this guy?' Nick Sirianni asked me as he exited the coaches’ offices after a big Eagles win this season. Sirianni had a lean, swarthy fellow in a hug that was more like a headlock. Both were smiling like maniacs. 'See this guy? This is a star!'

That guy was Kevin Patullo. For better or worse, after a year on probation, Sirianni is back in the saddle again.

With the Super Bowl LIX title on his resume, Sirianni on Wednesday promoted his longtime majordomo, associate head coach and passing game coordinator Kevin Patullo, from those rather amorphous positions. Patullo now is the offensive coordinator. Good luck telling them apart from a glance or at a distance. Both are tall, former college wide receivers with short hair and faux beards. Also, both are 43; Sirianni is about one month older than Patullo . . .

This time last year, after a late-season collapse, a playoff blowout, and a series of embarrassing incidents on the sideline and during interactions with fans, Sirianni was just campaigning to keep his job. It didn’t help that he’d hired badly after a run to the Super Bowl in 2022, which resulted in the regression of franchise quarterback Jalen Hurts and one of the worst defenses in Eagles history (emphasis mine)

Today, he has reasserted control of his staff.

To be fair, it had been a strength.

When the Eagles hired Sirianni as their head coach in 2021, he was an unknown, lightly regarded offensive coordinator in Indianapolis who didn’t even get an interview with any other teams. However, owner Jeffrey Lurie was smitten by Sirianni’s knowledge of the league as much as his knowledge of the game — one of the weaknesses of Sirianni’s predecessor, Doug Pederson.

Like Andy Reid, Sirianni was a well-connected networker with tendrils reaching throughout the NFL and college coaching ranks. Lurie and GM Howie Roseman were delighted with Sirianni’s first choices as coordinators: Jonathan Gannon, a fast-rising defensive mind from the Colts’ staff, and Shane Steichen, the Chargers’ quarterbacks coach when Sirianni was their wide receivers coach. . . After Sirianni lost both coordinators to head coaching jobs, all three — Lurie, Roseman, and Sirianni — did not necessarily agree on their replacements. Sirianni insisted on Sean Desai as Gannon’s replacement on defense. Sirianni acquiesced to Lurie’s preference that Brian Johnson, not Patullo, would replace Steichen. . .

Sirianni had given up play-calling responsibilities seven games into [his first season] and, according to Eagles sources no longer with the team, was eager to reinsert himself more fully into game-planning and, occasionally, into play-calling.

From there, things went horribly wrong.

Sirianni was forced to demote Desai after Game 14, and his replacement, defensive adviser Matt Patricia, was even worse. Johnson, undermined at times by Hurts, who occasionally would go off-script, took heat for the sort of unimaginative schemes and play-calling that originally cost Sirianni play-calling autonomy in 2021. Desai, Patricia, and Johnson were fired after the 2023 season.

Sirianni was not, partially because he accepted a lesser role.

Lurie had long coveted veteran defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, an Eagles defensive adviser in 2022 who parted ways with the Dolphins as DC after the 2023 season. Lurie also loved Moore, who’d helped develop Dak Prescott in Dallas before being scapegoated by head coach Mike McCarthy, who fired Moore after the 2022 season. Moore spent 2023 as the OC for the Chargers, to the benefit of quarterback Justin Herbert, before new head coach Jim Harbuagh cleaned house and made Moore available.

Lurie and Roseman scooped up both of them last winter.

Lurie and Roseman also made it clear that Sirianni’s responsibilities would be diminished.

The offense belonged to Moore. The defense belonged to Fangio.

The press conferences belonged to Nick.

Fast-forward 12 months. Sirianni has reascended. He’s got one year remaining on a $7 million-a-year contract that will at least double, if not triple, when an expected three-year extension is agreed upon.

Fangio remains, and will be untouched.

Can the same be said about the Eagles’ offense? (emphasis mine)

The Eagles say Patullo will call the plays, but mightn’t Sirianni be bolder in disagreeing with a longtime lieutenant like Patullo than with a self-made man like Moore?
After all, Patullo and Sirianni now have been joined at the hip for the past seven years. The new guy, Frazier, was a low-level assistant from 2018-20 under Sirianni with the Colts.

Who knows? This all could work out great. But however it works out, understand this:

Nick Sirianni is back in charge." - Marcus Hayes

I mean, oh my God. You're defending this guy. Look at the hometown paper. Yeah, Philly is rough. But this is spot-on. You can't make this up. It so perfectly dovetails. This guy is obtuse and obstinate. Oh my. I mean, gllll peas. Have fun, Fily.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

AJ will get fed this week and all will be right with the world for a spell

 

[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.

Well I'm sure that keeps up at night.

Bad take.

 

[JohnnyU]

I thought being a diva WR was dying. I was wrong.

 

[King of the Jungle]

AJ would look great in a Patriots uniform next year. History with Vrabel who seemed upset when they traded him in TEN.

 

[Faust]

Unapologetic A.J. Brown: Upset at Eagles offense as whole

 

[Alex P Keaton]

Unapologetic A.J. Brown: Upset at Eagles offense as whole

From the article:

“The reigning Super Bowl champions rank 25th in the NFL in passing yards (191.7) and 12th in points per game (24.2). Third-down offense also has been an issue; they are 27th with a conversion rate of 42.4% and have gone three-and-out on 41% of their drives, which ranks 28th.”

This is basic stuff. Is AJ wrong for saying publicly that the offense is a problem? Maybe. And maybe he’s said it privately and is sick of it not being fixed.

The offense isn’t good right now. Plain and simple.

 

[rockaction]

AJ would look great in a Patriots uniform next year. History with Vrabel who seemed upset when they traded him in TEN.

Oh wow. Seemed? That trade was so bad it got the GM fired when Brown came back to Tennessee and hung it on them all day. They fired Jon Robinson that Monday or Tuesday or something like that.

Vrabel was upset. But Vrabel is no-nonsense and he sees this. He can’t be digging that. Plus, 28. A.A. Is about a year from done. He might be done.

 

[rockaction]

Unapologetic A.J. Brown: Upset at Eagles offense as whole

From the article:

“The reigning Super Bowl champions rank 25th in the NFL in passing yards (191.7) and 12th in points per game (24.2). Third-down offense also has been an issue; they are 27th with a conversion rate of 42.4% and have gone three-and-out on 41% of their drives, which ranks 28th.”

This is basic stuff. Is AJ wrong for saying publicly that the offense is a problem? Maybe. And maybe he’s said it privately and is sick of it not being fixed.

The offense isn’t good right now. Plain and simple.

I honestly get why people think he’s a diva and a problem because he does sound selfish.

But when you think about it, isn’t he a stakeholder? Isn’t this his legacy and his bank account?

He should, if he didn’t, have publicly just said “trade me.” That he didn’t means he wants to work from within.

I’m going to maybe post some stuff I did with nflfast and PROE, EPA, and play predictability. Phillys plays are so predictable (as were Green Bay’s until the 4th quarter of the game) that you’d be amazed.

 

[Terpman22]

My take on AJ this year is basically.

Look at the Packers game. He looks at that secondary and says to himself "I can get 200 on these guys if I need to. I want to dominate these lesser football players"

And he just doesn't get a fair chance to do what he knows he can do. We can talk separation #s, or how he jogs on film, or how Jalen Hurts is a RB, etc.

He's made the All Pro team 3 years running. And its not happening this year.

Why is that? If your first answer isn't "Brand new OC, 1st time calling plays in his NFL life" then I got nothing for you.

And I know, the Eagles by winning it all and Kellen Moore moving on, the Eagles didn't have much of a choice with who to put in at OC.

Its just one of those things that is what it is right now.

 

[rockaction]

My take on AJ this year is basically.

Look at the Packers game. He looks at that secondary and says to himself "I can get 200 on these guys if I need to. I want to dominate these lesser football players"

And he just doesn't get a fair chance to do what he knows he can do. We can talk separation #s, or how he jogs on film, or how Jalen Hurts is a RB, etc.

He's made the All Pro team 3 years running. And its not happening this year.

Why is that? If your first answer isn't "Brand new OC, 1st time calling plays in his NFL life" then I got nothing for you.

And I know, the Eagles by winning it all and Kellen Moore moving on, the Eagles didn't have much of a choice with who to put in at OC.

Its just one of those things that is what it is right now.

Oh they absolutely had a choice. If you’re interested, read the article at the link I posted upthread. Your own beat writers were strongly implying a disaster was incoming over his hiring of personnel. No doubt.

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Unapologetic A.J. Brown: Upset at Eagles offense as whole

From the article:

“The reigning Super Bowl champions rank 25th in the NFL in passing yards (191.7) and 12th in points per game (24.2). Third-down offense also has been an issue; they are 27th with a conversion rate of 42.4% and have gone three-and-out on 41% of their drives, which ranks 28th.”

This is basic stuff. Is AJ wrong for saying publicly that the offense is a problem? Maybe. And maybe he’s said it privately and is sick of it not being fixed.

The offense isn’t good right now. Plain and simple.

I honestly get why people think he’s a diva and a problem because he does sound selfish.

But when you think about it, isn’t he a stakeholder? Isn’t this his legacy and his bank account?

He should, if he didn’t, have publicly just said “trade me.” That he didn’t means he wants to work from within.

I’m going to maybe post some stuff I did with nflfast and PROE, EPA, and play predictability. Phillys plays are so predictable (as were Green Bay’s until the 4th quarter of the game) that you’d be amazed.

I don’t think it’ll surprise anyone who has been paying attention. They line up in heavy formation- it’s 99.9999% a run play.

Every run play, you can see all the guys at the second level already halfway downhill and gaining momentum. It’s almost laughable.

Honestly, I think Nick/Kevin were smelling themselves after last year, and thought their identity was “You know the run is coming, but you can’t stop it”. Well, guess what, they know it’s coming and they ARE stopping it. And, after 2 weeks of flashes of decent Offense and the bye, they seemed to have doubled-down that their identity is a run-first team.

 

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Unapologetic A.J. Brown: Upset at Eagles offense as whole

From the article:

“The reigning Super Bowl champions rank 25th in the NFL in passing yards (191.7) and 12th in points per game (24.2). Third-down offense also has been an issue; they are 27th with a conversion rate of 42.4% and have gone three-and-out on 41% of their drives, which ranks 28th.”

This is basic stuff. Is AJ wrong for saying publicly that the offense is a problem? Maybe. And maybe he’s said it privately and is sick of it not being fixed.

The offense isn’t good right now. Plain and simple.

I honestly get why people think he’s a diva and a problem because he does sound selfish.

But when you think about it, isn’t he a stakeholder? Isn’t this his legacy and his bank account?

He should, if he didn’t, have publicly just said “trade me.” That he didn’t means he wants to work from within.

I’m going to maybe post some stuff I did with nflfast and PROE, EPA, and play predictability. Phillys plays are so predictable (as were Green Bay’s until the 4th quarter of the game) that you’d be amazed.

I don’t think it’ll surprise anyone who has been paying attention. They line up in heavy formation- it’s 99.9999% a run play.

Every run play, you can see all the guys at the second level already halfway downhill and gaining momentum. It’s almost laughable.

Honestly, I think Nick/Kevin were smelling themselves after last year, and thought their identity was “You know the run is coming, but you can’t stop it”. Well, guess what, they know it’s coming and they ARE stopping it. And, after 2 weeks of flashes of decent Offense and the bye, they seemed to have doubled-down that their identity is a run-first team.

I still can’t believe that article. Everybody kinda knew it, but this guy just eviscerated them before this even happened.

I don’t really know why anybody defends him, but hey, we defend our families from outsiders even if they’re an anchor with a Wile E. Coyote anvil attached.