Philadelphia Eagles extensive receiver A.J. Brown as soon as once more made it recognized last week he was lower than happy with the general state of the Philadelphia offense and together with his lackluster numbers on the season.
Brown then led the Eagles in receptions (seven), targets (11) and receiving yards (49) to assist the membership notch a gritty 16-9 win over the Detroit Lions that improved Philadelphia to 8-2 on Sunday night time. Following the victory, Brown addressed controversial feedback he made on Nov. 11 concerning the “sh– show” outdoors of his private life.
A.J. Brown needs Eagles’ offense to be higher
“It wasn’t about targets final week or the week earlier than,” Brown mentioned about his newest complaints, per Greg Giesen and Martin Frank of the Delaware Information Journal. “It wasn’t about that in any respect. It was me attempting to assist and contribute. That’s all. No matter what that regarded like in phases, I believe I did. However like I mentioned, I believe there’s a whole lot of stuff that we as an offense and me myself, that we gotta proceed to get higher at.”
After Brown recorded two catches for 13 yards on three targets in Philadelphia’s 10-7 win over the Inexperienced Bay Packers on Nov. 10, he suggested fantasy soccer gamers to “eliminate me.” He later said that he felt the Eagles could not “simply hold slapping the Band-Assist over the protection doing their job and getting us out of hassle.”
In a way, that is precisely what occurred at Lincoln Monetary Subject on Sunday night time. Whereas the Eagles scored just one offensive landing, their protection stopped the Lions 5 occasions on fourth down. Detroit quarterback Jared Goff accomplished solely 14-of-37 cross makes an attempt for 255 yards with one landing and one interception within the defeat that dropped the Lions to 6-4.
A.J. Brown nonetheless not glad
“We’ve nonetheless simply obtained to do a greater job on offense and get our stuff going,” Brown added after Sunday’s win, in accordance with Johnny McGonigal of PennLive. “There’s a whole lot of room for enchancment. Lot of self-inflicted wounds. …As quickly as we obtained going, we shot ourselves within the foot. That’s one thing we will clear up. If somebody simply beats us, then hat’s off to them. However there are some issues we’re doing.”
The Eagles can have a possibility to wash issues up after they face the Dallas Cowboys on Nov. 23. 3-5-1 Dallas performs on the Las Vegas Raiders (2-7) on Monday night time.
