Some instructed after Philadelphia Eagles vast 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 absolutely devoted to the trigger or was upset over a scarcity of targets.
Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni insisted throughout a Tuesday morning look on Philadelphia sports activities radio station 94WIP that he was “positively OK” with Brown’s actions.
“The loopy factor is, he is been studying this e book on the sideline for a very long time. It simply so occurred a digicam 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 have to do to place their thoughts in a spot the place they’ll play with nice element and nice effort, I absolutely encourage them to try this.”
After Brown caught only one cross on three targets for 10 yards in Sunday’s victory, he told reporters that studying “Internal Excellence” by Jim Murphy on the bench “offers [him] a way of peace” on gamedays.
“That’s a e book that I carry each single sport,” Brown stated at the moment. “…It’s the primary time I heard that y’all bought me on digicam. It’s bought numerous factors in there, a lot of psychological elements 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 the wild-card spherical of the playoffs. Understandably,
outsiders would no less than query why a participant would learn a e book as his crew’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 leap to a conclusion of, ‘Oh he have to be disgruntled.’ That to me is lazy,” Sirianni added. “Everybody wants to determine why he is doing it earlier than they leap to judgment on the person. As a result of the person, A.J. Brown, is a superb, nice, nice individual. The person A.J. Brown is the very best receiver — and I am going to say it with out hesitation — the very best receiver that this metropolis has ever seen…It is exhausting for me to observe when persons are getting on him with out doing the correct 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 sport versus the Los Angeles Rams. Philadelphia has gained 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.
