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A.J. Dillon’s Time in Philadelphia Will Only Be Remembered For Giving Us the Positivity Rabbit
By Kyle Pagan
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Did you want to know which Eagles player brought in the Positivity Rabbit? Of course you do. According to Mike Silver at The Athletic (with ads) it was AJ Dillon:
After Monday’s game, several Eagles players defiantly insisted that they’re not repeating recent history.
“No,” receiver DeVonta Smith said. “It’s nowhere close to 2023.”
Star running back Saquon Barkley, who joined the Eagles as a free agent following that season, was similarly declarative.
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On paper, it makes about as much sense as a fourth-string running back (A.J. Dillon, who last played on Oct. 9) taking it upon himself to change a team’s vibes by bringing a large, blown-up Easter Bunny into the locker room. Talk about a deflating defeat: When reporters entered the locker room on Wednesday, the rabbit was gone, seemingly having been placed on waivers.
SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
These are the type of ideas you have while playing farm simulator until the wee hours of the morning:
I appreciate Dillon trying to contribute in any way possible since he can’t on the field, but a giant inflatable bunny of good vibes probably wasn’t the move. Bits go one of two ways in Philadelphia. You either become the Underdog mask or you become the Positivity Rabbit and now all Dillon will be remembered for in this city is bringing in the bunny in a last-ditch effort to salvage the season. The underdog mask makes sense in a blue collar town of people who pride themselves as being underdogs so much they have erected three statues of a fake boxer around the city. Positivity doesn’t exactly sell in the city of Philadelphia.
Also, why a bunny? Why not like an ambitious eagle or like an attentive dolphin that doesn’t throw into double coverage in overtime? Why did it have to be a stupid Easter bunny, which is the 2025 Eagles of holiday mascots. The only thing that will absolve A.J. Dillon is if we get a video of him running through the bunny like this:
I want to know whose job it was to smoke the bunny. Did Big Dom throw it in the Delaware? Did someone go in there Artie Bucco style and end it for good?
P.S. Can we just agree no mascots or imagery related to eggs for the Eagles the rest of the season? We need a ceasefire on egg related occurrences at least until the offseason.
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