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PHILADELPHIA — A.J. Brown stood at his locker with cameras ready to record his every word. But just like the past 10 days, Brown didn’t have much to say of anything.
Brown is clearly frustrated with what’s going on in the Philadelphia Eagles locker room, politely declining to speak to the media and venting his frustrations with the organization. The media already knew, but Brown wanted to make sure he let them know his issue wasn’t with them.
“I’m not about to talk,” Brown said with a smile on his face. When a reporter asked Brown why, the Eagles receiver politely responded “that would be talking.” Brown was also asked if he would talk this week and just shrugged his shoulders before responding “it’s nothing towards y’all.”
So what’s the problem? It’s easy to connect the dots and find out the issue partly lies with the offense, a unit that doesn’t have a cure for what’s ailing this football team. Brown finished with four catches for 53 yards in Sunday’s loss to the Arizona Cardinals, yet had one target in the second half. Brown hasn’t had a 100-yard game in four contests and has been held out of the end zone for the past five matchups.
The Eagles haven’t been targeting Brown deep, either. Brown has just one reception of 25-plus air yards since Week 7, and that was his 32-yard catch on third-and-20 last week. He only has eight of those catches on the season, and seven of those came from Weeks 4-7. For context, Brown had 12 of those catches last year.
Brown has just 11 catches of 10-plus air yards in the last eight games, after having 26 in the first eight. He only has two catches of 20-plus air yards over the last eight games after having eight in the first eight.
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Author : Jeff Kerr
Publish date : 2024-01-01 19:22:00
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