A.J. Brown says post wasn't about Eagles, Hurts

PHILADELPHIA -- Eagles receiver A.J. Brown took work Wednesday for letting his "frustrations boil over" Sunday and stated that his station connected societal media wasn't directed astatine anyone wrong the building, including backmost Jalen Hurts.

Brown declined to talk with the media aft a 31-25 triumph implicit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers successful which helium finished with 2 catches for 7 yards connected 9 targets.

A abbreviated clip later, he posted a punctuation from the Bible connected X: "If you're not welcomed, not listened to, softly withdraw. Don't marque a scene. Shrug your shoulders and beryllium connected your way."

It has been a comparatively quiescent commencement to the play for Brown, who has 14 catches for 151 yards and a touchdown connected 28 targets. His 10.8 yards per reception is good beneath his vocation mean of 15.6.

The 4-0 Eagles fertile 31st successful passing with 138 yards per game.

"I don't deliberation it's a atrocious happening for wanting the ball," helium said. "It's not conscionable for targets oregon anything, to enactment numbers up, no. I spot that we're struggling and I'm a feline that wants the shot successful those times erstwhile we can't find a way. Give it to me. When the game's connected the line, springiness the shot to me. I privation that, I privation that pressure, I enactment it connected myself, and I enactment hard for it.

"You tin misconstrue immoderate position astir me, but it is what it is, and I don't attraction to beryllium honorable due to the fact that my teammates cognize that erstwhile the game's connected the line, look astatine me. And I privation everybody successful the stadium to cognize that. It's not a secret. I'm not shying distant from that."

Asked astir his connection with Hurts, Brown said they'll speech done things successful meetings during the week successful the sanction of trying to get better. In-game, helium said determination is not overmuch speech betwixt the 2 due to the fact that Brown is not the benignant of subordinate that would spell up to the QB saying, "Give maine the ball, springiness maine the ball."

"People said helium was forcing maine the shot due to the fact that I'm complaining but if you inquire immoderate of my teammates, I'm astir apt the quietest 1 connected the sideline. I don't adjacent spell to the huddle during the timeouts," helium said. "I effort to fto the crippled travel to me."

Hurts said his narration with Brown is "good." When asked to grow connected that, Hurts said, "We stock a large passionateness for this game, and we're focused connected this week."

Hurts and Brown person a relationship that predates their clip unneurotic successful Philadelphia, going backmost to erstwhile Hurts tried to enlistee Brown to travel to Alabama.

Brown indicated that helium is blessed being successful Philadelphia contempt his astir caller frustrations.

"Absolutely, this is home," helium said. "Unfortunately, I did it to myself. But this is my home. I emotion it here. But you conscionable spot vexation due to the fact that we privation to beryllium large and astir definitely, I privation to beryllium large arsenic well."