Lost in the Radio Wars shuffle of Monday were the comments made by Lane Johnson regarding accountability after the Dallas loss.

Johnson talked about snuffing out “little stuff that slides during the week,” and suggested that players had been late to team meetings and practices in the past.

Later in the day, Malcolm Jenkins seemed to disagree with what Johnson had to say, offering up this on 94 WIP:

Said Jenkins:

“I don’t really know where this narrative is coming from. I don’t know exactly who is being referenced when they talk about this stuff. So I don’t know what Lane’s talking about.”

(follow up question asking if people are showing up late)

“No. Not any of the meetings or practices that I’m apart of. If that is happening that’s not the responsibility of players.”

Okay. I read that yesterday and thought maybe this was a “one guy is on the defense and the other guy is on the offense” kind of thing, and maybe Johnson and Jenkins had just seen different things in past weeks within their various personnel groupings.

Monday night, Brandon Graham was asked about the topic during his weekly show at Chickies and Petes, saying that Johnson should have thought about his comments before making them:

“I feel like, take your time,” Graham said. “Take a minute to not be hot and think about what you’re saying. Because a little of that is just whatever that you might have saw or something that you might have saw during the week that you didn’t say nothing about. It’s the little things we talk about, like don’t let the little things slip. And we probably let some things slip that shouldn’t have, but let’s try to focus on—at that time, just take the L. Don’t say too much that’s gonna hurt you where you gotta back track and think about it. I think Lane should have just thought about it a little bit.”

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“I love Lane, Lane is real,” Graham explained. “I mean I believe Lane. If he’s seeing something, hey. But you know, go tell that person, go let them know. Like you said, he do got a lot of juice and some people need to start seeing that for themselves. Like, I’m a veteran now. I’ve been here long enough. I had to see that myself. I had to start stepping up myself because I can’t look for T-Cole (Trent Cole) and them, they not here no more. I’m the vet now. You gotta change the way you think about it. I think Lane should police it from here on out. You feel strongly on that, keep everything tight in the circle because people want to, right now, people trying to make every little thing we say into something. I know we gonna get it right, but the first thing that we should do is talk to each other and let each other know.”

It’s a good point. The Eagles like to keep things in house, and Johnson could have quite possibly just quashed these things when they arose.

But if Johnson feels like that’s not working, or it’s not good enough, then maybe he knew exactly what he was doing by going public with his dissatisfaction of teammates who will remain anonymous.

Time’s yours.