A.J. Brown is Pissed at the Eagles Like We Are
Since Thanksgiving the Eagles have become an embarrassment. They are 2-5 since we were all fat and happy on turkey, pie, Steve’s cheesy spinach. As ugly as 2-5 sounds, seeing it was even uglier. The 2 wins, were gross. We’ll give them the benefit of the doubt against a good Buffalo team, but the Christmas day hang on by a thread was as bad as the losses. We’re all pissed at the Eagles. Their own star wide receiver A.J. Brown is pissed. One of us! One of us!
1st and 20 in FG range already and we do nothing but QB runs and screens.
— Philly Talk Podcast (@Philly_Mike25) December 31, 2023
If I’m AJ Brown I’m upset too #Eagles pic.twitter.com/kIeeEqAnbk
Nobody is happy when you’re losing. Fans, players, coaches. Losing teams have the stories of locker room turmoil written about them. It’s what happens. Winning cures everything and right now they are a long way away from winning. When you have a dominant receiver watching you run a bunch of QB draws or multiple wide receiver screens using your other star receiver who weighs 160lbs as the lead blocker of course he’s going to be pissed. It’s bad coaching. Brown is pissed. He’s not calling out the coaches, but we know he wants to. He declined to speak with the media post game, and said, “there’s nothing to say.” He clarified that his not speaking isn’t anger directed at the members of the media.
AJ Brown declines to talk. “There’s nothing to say.” pic.twitter.com/1TZOB7fhxO
— Tim McManus (@Tim_McManus) December 31, 2023
He sees the problems just like we do. You don’t go from blowing teams out to scraping by then forgetting how to win. There is a reason it’s happening. One of the reasons just walked into the Linc Sunday afternoon and kicked the Eagles square in the junk. The other is on the verge of a playoff berth with Gardner Minshew at QB.
The offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator(s) are overmatched. They’re predictable, they lack creativity and defensively talent in certain spots. Early this year people talked about how the Eagles offense was beating teams by running the same handful of plays and that they should keep doing it until someone stops them. Well they’ve been stopped, because there are good coaches in the NFL. They adjust to what the other team is doing, and it’s up to the offensive coordinator to also adjust to the adjustments. What if Brian Johnson only has those five plays, and isn’t able to create anymore? He’s Henry Winkler in The Waterboy, but not the part where he figures it all out in time.