Some instructed after Philadelphia Eagles broad receiver A.J. Brown was noticed reading a book through the membership’s 22-10 wild-card playoff win over the Inexperienced Bay Packers this previous Sunday that he both wasn’t totally devoted to the trigger or was upset over an absence of targets.
Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni insisted throughout a Tuesday morning look on Philadelphia sports activities radio station 94WIP that he was “undoubtedly OK” with Brown’s actions.
“The loopy factor is, he is been studying this ebook on the sideline for a very long time. It simply so occurred a digital camera noticed it this week,” Sirianni defined, Audacy’s Andrew Porter shared. “Some guys pray in between, some guys meditate in between. A.J. reads in between. No matter these guys must do to place their thoughts in a spot the place they’ll play with nice element and nice effort, I totally encourage them to do this.”
After Brown caught only one go on three targets for 10 yards in Sunday’s victory, he told reporters that studying “Inside Excellence” by Jim Murphy on the bench “provides [him] a way of peace” on gamedays.
“That’s a ebook that I convey each single recreation,” Brown stated at the moment. “…It’s the primary time I heard that y’all obtained me on digital camera. It’s obtained a number of factors in there, a lot of psychological components about it. As a result of for me, the sport is psychological.”
Supposed locker-room points allegedly had something to do with the collapse of the 2023 Eagles facet that entered Week 13 at 10-1 however then misplaced six of seven video games by means of the wild-card spherical of the playoffs. Understandably,
outsiders would no less than query why a participant would learn a ebook as his staff’s protection works to cease an opposing offense, however Sirianni appeared to lash out at these people.
“We do not do any analysis and we bounce to a conclusion of, ‘Oh he should be disgruntled.’ That to me is lazy,” Sirianni added. “Everybody wants to determine why he is doing it earlier than they bounce to judgment on the person. As a result of the person, A.J. Brown, is a superb, nice, nice particular person. The person A.J. Brown is the very best receiver — and I will say it with out hesitation — the very best receiver that this metropolis has ever seen…It is exhausting for me to look at when persons are getting on him with out doing the right analysis of who the person is and what he is doing within the first place.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, DraftKings Sportsbook listed the Eagles as six-point favorites for this coming Sunday’s house divisional-round playoff recreation versus the Los Angeles Rams. Philadelphia has received 13 of its previous 14 contests, and all people concerned appears to be on the identical web page (pun supposed) heading into the third weekend of January.
