When Brandon Graham blurted out that maybe, just maybeAs the friendship between AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts began to fray following the former’s declining on-field production due to the Philadelphia Eagles’ dwindling pass attempts, it turned heads around the world of the NFL.
Were the Eagles, after winning nine straight games since the bye, going to collapse due to infighting when they should be flying higher than any other team in the NFC East and the NFC as a whole? Was Brown going to pout if he didn’t get more targets? And what about Hurts? How would he handle this new development, especially when Brown has been his top target for years now?
Well, it turns out that might not be a problem at all, because hours after the WIP segment went viral, Graham contacted ESPN to let it be known that he had made a mistake in going viral. expressing about the situation and presented hypotheses as if they were facts.
“I made a mistake and assumed it was something that wasn’t the case,” Graham told ESPN. “I just want to win, so much so that I don’t want to just use the media when we need to talk about something and we can solve the problem ourselves. I didn’t add good lighting to it, so it’s my bad.
“I just assumed, and it made me look even worse because I had it all wrong, and now people are going to run with that part. I really just want to win, man, and I want the brothers to be able to hold their own.
Interesting…interesting.
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So, did BG really make a mistake? Or did he see the negative reaction and want to nip it in the bud before it got out of hand? Did Hurts and/or Brown ask Graham to clarify his comments? Or did this mandate come from above, be it Nick Sirianni, Howie Roseman or even Jeffrey Lurie?
On the one hand, this could be the end of a drama that ultimately turns out to be a non-issue. But you better believe Eagles players and coaches will be asked about it again during their weekly media sessions and again after the game, depending on how things develop. If Sirianni is wise, he’ll throw some choice passing concepts at the Steelers in Week 15, because a big game from Brown and Hurts could help ease tensions more than any words.
