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A.J. Brown has Nick Sirianni’s Back, Calls Out Marcus Hayes, and Might’ve Gotten the Super Bowl Run Back on Track

Kyle Pagan

By Kyle Pagan

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AJ Brown’s first time talking to the media in two weeks did not disappoint. During his interview he praised Nick Sirianni for having the team’s back after the players improvised the last second play in Seattle, called out Marcus Hayes, and might’ve just turned the entire season around. Lets get into it.

 

The players improvised that deep shot in Seattle that led to an interception and Nick Sirianni covered for them:

Thank god we finally got the truth. Absolutely no one believed Nick Sirianni when he said the Eagles were hoping for a pass interference call. It didn’t make sense. Cool to see AJ own up to that. Real leader shit. But I’m still having a hard time thinking this is all on the players. The play calling stinks. You don’t need to be an offensive genius to know running bubble screens with your 170 lb wide receiver as a lead blocker will work. Still. Great leader. Fire Brian Johnson.

AJ calls out Marcus Hayes (skip to 40 seconds):

“I’m kind of glad (Marcus Hayes) is not here because I was gonna ask him because I wanted to know like who’s saying that? Because I know my teammates are riding for me and I’m riding for them.” 

Marcus Hayes wrote an article over the weekend that tore apart AJ Brown’s character and made it seem he was tearing the team apart. It mentioned unnamed teammates who said he wasn’t talking to the media because he was mad at the coaches. Obviously that proved to be untrue. Another L for the Inquirer, whose opinion pieces have become an extension of hot take sports radio. Only the Inquirer has taken more Ls than the Eagles in the last month. Between this, Garrett Stubbs calling the pool comments, “A joke,” and Mike Sielski’s Brock Purdy article, it’s been quite the month for the paper as subs are hurting. Who even knows how much of Jeff McLane’s “internal concerns” report is real now? Nothing the Eagles beats at the Inky love more than a down team. That’s when the bloodsucking vampires come out of the coffin and actually start doing their job. Time to dust this off:

AJ apologized to the team in a Wednesday meeting for having to “answer questions on his behalf,” via Zach Berman:

“I’m not just going to continue to compound the negative with negative so you guys can write more negative stuff,” Brown said. “You guys watch the game, too. You guys already know. So that’s why I was like, nothing more than I can say. I’m not trying to make it worse than what it is. And then on top of that, everything that I do, if I say something, I do anything. I’m classified as a monster. Honestly the opposite. You saw my frustration on the field. It wasn’t about the play call. It wasn’t about none of that. It was about my guy getting banged up. We’re going to need (DeVonta Smith going forward.”

This was the play he was referencing:

In closing: AJ Brown is the man. This is exactly what I needed to get back in on this team. Two hours ago I thought Nick Sirianni would be fired after the season. Now I wouldn’t be surprised if they went on a Super Bowl run. If that happens, the escape room trip will go down in history:

Kyle Pagan
Kyle Pagan

Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com

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