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Eagles wide receiver AJ Brown was in no mood to talk to the media after the team’s latest loss.
On Sunday, Brown appeared to shake his head in frustration on the field after some questionable playcalling by the Eagles in the fourth quarter.
1st and 20 in FG range already and we do nothing but QB runs and screens.
If I’m AJ Brown I’m upset too #Eagles pic.twitter.com/kIeeEqAnbk
— Philly Talk Podcast (@Philly_Mike25) December 31, 2023
The Cardinals went on to upset the Eagles, and Brown refused to speak to the media after the game.
“There’s nothing to say,” Brown said when asked about the Eagles’ offensive struggles. “It ain’t directed towards y’all,”
Wow: AJ Brown declined to speak with the media after their loss to the #Cardinals.
“There is nothing to say.”pic.twitter.com/5DUUSQsmTt
— JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) December 31, 2023
Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni responded to criticism from Internet about the team’s offensive playcalling in the fourth quarter.
“I don’t think that’s conservative there if they are blitzing a bunch of gaps, [we’re] running a gap scheme that has a chance to hit for big yards that we needed to get back into it. We could have thrown it there, too. We chose to go [back-to-back quarterback rushes]. It didn’t hit. But I think that sometimes with the gap scheme stuff that you do … you’ve got to do some different things to cancel out gaps if they are bringing everything out.”
Nick Sirianni on the QB run, QB run, Screen Drive, and if it was too conservative: “I don’t think that’s conservative. If they’re blitzing the gaps, you run a gap scheme. We could’ve thrown it, but we chose to run it, and it didn’t hit.. It didn’t work. The screen, that’s gonna… pic.twitter.com/kIDrDHeMID
— Eagles Nation (@PHLEaglesNation) December 31, 2023
It’s clear that everyone on the Eagles is currently unhappy with how their season is going after losing 4 out of their last 5 games. We’ll have to wait and see if the Eagles can turn things around in time for the playoffs.