Some urged 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 absolutely 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 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 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 “Interior Excellence” by Jim Murphy on the bench “provides [him] a way of peace” on gamedays.
“That’s a ebook that I carry each single recreation,” Brown mentioned at the moment. “…It’s the primary time I heard that y’all bought me on digicam. It’s bought a variety 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 via the wild-card spherical of the playoffs. Understandably,
outsiders would a minimum of query why a participant would learn a ebook 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 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 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 laborious for me to look at 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 recreation versus the Los Angeles Rams. Philadelphia has received 13 of its previous 14 contests, and everyone concerned appears to be on the identical web page (pun meant) heading into the third weekend of January.
