Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown officially addressed rumors regarding his future with the franchise when he called into a sports talk podcast/radio show on Friday to discuss his future with the Eagles.
“I have no problem. I want to be here, it’s as simple as that,” Brown said, during an appearance on Philadelphia radio station 94WIP. “I love where I’m at, it’s as simple as that. Next question.” Brown added that the rumored rift between he and Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts was “total BS”.
“I’m not going to get into me and his relationship on the air. But it’s total B.S., you know what I’m saying?” Brown continued. “It wasn’t a problem when I was on my six-game streak. They wasn’t talking about that then, so they only started talking about that when we started losing. Of course, you see friction from everybody, from the coaches, the players and from everybody. So there you go.”
Brown called into the show because he was unhappy with reporting about him, calling it “personal” and said that the negativity associated with it was a reason why he did not speak to the media during various stretched last season.
“You see what the media’s doing right now, this past whole month. You wonder why I’m not talking to them,” Brown said. “I don’t want to talk to them because no matter what I say, you guys are going to make a story and pinpoint it however you want to pinpoint it.”
“Really, I’m just taking up for my teammates,” he said, “because half of the rumors, it really be crazy.”
“I’m the guy who’s going to look in the mirror and go challenge everybody else. It was the players not executing, and that’s what happened,” Brown said. “If you look back closely, [WIP host] Ike [Reese] said it a few seconds ago that we were playing like the best team in the league. We wasn’t. We may have had the best record in the league, but we wasn’t playing like the best team in the league. It was like that all year. We were scratching away getting wins. And so, when stuff [began] to really unravel … and stuff started to not go as planned, then you saw what was happening. It was a domino effect, and we was trying to stop the bleeding and everything was going too fast at that point.”
Brown made it clear he wants to stay in Philly: “I just want to let Philly know I love ’em, and everybody who’s making those rumors, hey man, you need to find another job.”
