{"id":374895,"date":"2025-11-13T02:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/374895\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:04:14","slug":"unapologetic-a-j-brown-upset-at-eagles-offense-as-whole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/374895\/","title":{"rendered":"Unapologetic A.J. Brown: Upset at Eagles offense as whole"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762999454_860_mcmanus_tim.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Tim McManusNov 12, 2025, 08:08 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Tim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2016 after covering the Eagles for Philadelphia Magazine&#8217;s Birds 24\/7, a site he helped create, since 2010.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; Hours after video surfaced of him saying things are &#8220;a s&#8212;show&#8221; outside of his family life, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-eagles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eagles<\/a> receiver <a data-player-guid=\"53cf1afe-22f9-ea1f-7d9b-a992d25c8ac5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4047646\/aj-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A.J. Brown<\/a> got to the root of his frustration.<\/p>\n<p>In comments to the media at his locker late Wednesday afternoon, Brown said his discontent is with Philadelphia&#8217;s offense as a whole, not his own situation.<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s not apologizing for what he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not just solely about my situation. I want to win, too,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think if we&#8217;re really focused on winning and doing our job, we can&#8217;t just keep slapping a Band-Aid over the defense doing their job and getting us out of trouble. At what point are we going to pick up our slack as an offense?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m getting at. It&#8217;s not about, &#8216;I don&#8217;t care about winning, all I care about is stats.&#8217; No. It&#8217;s been week after week sometimes we&#8217;re not doing our job on offense. You can&#8217;t keep slapping a Band-Aid over that and expect to win late in the year and think you&#8217;re going to go to that at the end of the year. It&#8217;s not going to f&#8212;ing happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Brown was targeted three times in Monday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/game\/_\/gameId\/401772630\/eagles-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10-7 win<\/a> over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"06cd3bcf-7a86-53d4-28e7-aa049dd36261\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/gb\/green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> and finished with two catches for 13 yards.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, video surfaced showing streamer JankyRondo playing a game of &#8220;Madden.&#8221; At one point, the gamer asked Brown if everything was going well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, no,&#8221; Brown responded. &#8220;Where have you been? Family is good. Everything else, no. It&#8217;s a s&#8212;show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the video Wednesday, Brown said he was &#8220;just talking to my friend, having fun with my friend. I&#8217;m not apologizing for that. Because if you have eyes, you can see that. It&#8217;s not that I was throwing anybody under the bus. I&#8217;m literally trying to laugh through this s&#8212;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This s&#8212; is tough. But I&#8217;m trying to make fun of the situation to try to get through it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking earlier Wednesday, Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said he didn&#8217;t think Brown&#8217;s continued voicing of his discontentment has become a distraction to the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t think so,&#8221; Sirianni said. &#8220;You can only go from your interactions with everybody and the way they go about their work on a daily basis that you guys aren&#8217;t able to see. But no, it&#8217;s business as usual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown has 31 catches for 408 yards and three touchdowns in eight games this season. He&#8217;s on pace to finish with 867 receiving yards, which would be a career low.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year is what it was, thank you for the ring, but it&#8217;s a new season,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;They adapted, we have to adapt, and we have to continue to get better and find new ways. That&#8217;s where the frustration comes in. &#8230; I want to win, yes, and help contribute as well and do our thing on offense as well. I think that&#8217;s fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pull-quote\"><p>&#8220;Last year is what it was, thank you for the ring, but it&#8217;s a new season. They adapted, we have to adapt, and we have to continue to get better and find new ways. That&#8217;s where the frustration comes in &#8230; I want to win, yes, and help contribute as well and do our thing on offense as well. I think that&#8217;s fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eagles WR A.J. Brown<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brown has voiced his frustration on social media multiple times this season, including after wins.<\/p>\n<p>Sirianni was asked how he can reconcile his statement that it&#8217;s been &#8220;business as usual&#8221; with the receiver when his latest comments seem to contradict that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m close to being done answering these questions with this,&#8221; Sirianni said. &#8220;He&#8217;s working hard and he is a big part of this game plan [for Sunday&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"56caffee-178d-f6f2-a076-b277486b8c32\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a>] and he&#8217;ll be a big part of the game plan going forward. He&#8217;s working like crazy when he&#8217;s here, and I&#8217;m excited to have him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Eagles quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"caceb80c-6350-a107-9fcf-7c7bd1b4edd8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4040715\/jalen-hurts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Hurts<\/a> shut down questions about Brown after a few queries from the media Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got the Detroit Lions [this week], so I&#8217;m definitely going to put a halt to that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The more we drive that, the more of a distraction it becomes. And I think ultimately, it&#8217;s about the group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles leaned conservative Monday night, particularly on third-and-longs in what developed into a defensive contest with the Packers. Brown was targeted only twice over the first 59 minutes of the game before Hurts went to him on a deep pass on fourth-and-6 from the Packers 35-yard line that fell incomplete. That gave Green Bay a chance to tie it, but <a data-player-guid=\"c1653a6e-1514-fac4-f878-14f25665b80d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/16339\/brandon-mcmanus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon McManus<\/a>&#8216; 64-yard attempt was well off the mark, and Philadelphia held on to improve to 7-2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you look at how the game went, there were a lot of plays that are going to [Brown] that for different reasons don&#8217;t,&#8221; Sirianni said. &#8220;For instance, [<a data-player-guid=\"79fe15c5-5f05-f939-c4f5-c55466521a50\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4241478\/devonta-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeVonta Smith<\/a>]&#8217;s touchdown, that play is going to A.J.; they took it away, and [Hurts] threw it over the top. You can&#8217;t look at stats and just say this is what&#8217;s happening. You can&#8217;t paint the picture that way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A.J. 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