Sirianni: Brown's desire is to remain with Eagles

PHILADELPHIA -- Eagles manager Nick Sirianni, asked astir A.J. Brown's cryptic tweet pursuing Sunday's game, said helium believes Brown wants to stay successful Philadelphia and suggested immoderate vexation he's feeling is tied to his tendency to assistance the squad win.

"Obviously A.J. is precise important to this shot team," Sirianni said Monday. "I cognize helium wants to lend and bash the things he's susceptible of doing. He wants to lend into these wins, and he's had a mates games wherever helium hasn't been capable to for antithetic reasons.

"I question thing astir his tendency to play large football, his tendency of being a bully teammate, his tendency to beryllium here."

Brown finished with 2 catches for 7 yards connected 9 targets successful the Eagles' 31-25 triumph successful Tampa. The passing crippled stalled retired successful the 2nd half, with backmost Jalen Hurts going 0-for-8, allowing the Bucs to astir equine a comeback.

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

It's 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.

He has been held to 27 yards oregon little successful each but 1 game. In Week 3 against the Los Angeles Rams, helium erupted for six catches, 109 yards and a touchdown arsenic the Eagles were forced to unfastened things up successful the 2nd fractional aft falling down 26-7.

"Me personally, I genuinely judge we've got truthful galore bully players connected this squad and astatine times you tin consciousness similar we're being conservative," Brown said past week. "I don't deliberation it should beryllium similar that. I deliberation it should [be], fto your killers bash their happening and play accelerated and play aggressive. I'm not saying that we haven't been but maine personally, that's what I would like."

The Eagles are 4-0 this play contempt getting outgained successful each 4 games. They are the 2nd squad implicit the past 90 years to commencement 4-0 and get outgained successful each 4 games alongside the 2012 Cardinals, who started 4-0 but finished the play 5-11 successful Ken Whisenhunt's last twelvemonth arsenic Arizona's caput coach, per ESPN Research.