Some recommended after Philadelphia Eagles large receiver A.J. Brown was noticed reading a book in the course of 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 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 will play with nice element and nice effort, I totally encourage them to try this.”
After Brown caught only one move on three targets for 10 yards in Sunday’s victory, he told reporters that studying “Interior Excellence” by Jim Murphy on the bench “offers [him] a way of peace” on gamedays.
“That’s a e book that I convey each single sport,” Brown mentioned at the moment. “…It’s the primary time I heard that y’all received me on digicam. It’s received quite a lot 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 aspect that entered Week 13 at 10-1 however then misplaced six of seven video games via the wild-card spherical of the playoffs. Understandably,
outsiders would no less than query why a participant would learn a e book 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 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 good, nice, nice individual. The person A.J. Brown is one of the best receiver — and I am going to say it with out hesitation — one of the best receiver that this metropolis has ever seen…It is onerous for me to observe 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 dwelling 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.
