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PHILADELPHIA — Caught on camera during the end of the third quarter of Thursday night’s prime-time game — with the Philadelphia Eagles up 13 points over the Minnesota Vikings and in control of earning another victory — were Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown, in the middle of an exchange that head coach Nick Sirianni had to diffuse.
Of course the game was on national television. Everyone saw it and couldn’t be avoided.
The Eagles tried to downplay the scenario, but they didn’t need to. They played coy, acting like it didn’t exist.
“I don’t know. I didn’t see what was going on with that. We were just trying to manage the game,” Sirianni said postgame. “The conversations we have on the field are going to be private, and the conversations we have in our locker room are going to be private. You don’t need to know what was going on right there.”
Sirianni is correct. No one needed to know what went on between Hurts and Brown, two close friends whose relationship breeds deeper than football. Hurts is the godfather of Brown’s daughter, Jersee, and is the man responsible for getting Brown to Philadelphia. The man who once tried to recruit Brown to Alabama during their high school days finally was able to throw footballs to him in an actual game instead of in a backyard.
There was no need for the Eagles to handle the situation like they did. The proof was in the pudding.
“That’s part of being a competitor,” said DeVonta Smith, who was caught in the vicinity of the exchange between Hurts and Brown. “You always want to feel like you’re part of the team. Anytime something like that’s going on, it’s not nothing bad. He’s not bashing nobody, man. He just wants to be part of the team, wants to help us.”
Easy to understand Brown’s frustration. He had just three catches for 17 yards at the time of the exchange, abnormal numbers for a player who broke the Eagles’ single-season record for…
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Author : Jeff Kerr
Publish date : 2023-09-16 16:59:00
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