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What does A.J. Brown want? Eagles’ star WR chases greatness — on his terms – The Athletic
Away from pinging phones, away from all the red-alert headlines, A.J. Brown is at his locker. There’s no need here to decode his social media posts or deduce what reports are true. He’s talking about what actually matters to him. He’s talking about why catching the football is existential for him. He’s talking about why a cathartic expression flashed beneath his trademark visor during a fourth-quarter sequence in which he broke three tackles on a go-ahead drive against the Los Angeles Rams. “I know everybody’s counting on me — that’s my thrill,” Brown tells The Athletic. “And then I come through. That makes me proud of myself. And I’m doing it over and over again. And then I got another opportunity a couple of plays later. Third down. Everybody knows the ball’s coming to me. I love that feeling. Like, it’s a rush. I don’t do drugs, but that has to be what drugs feels like. And I’m getting that dopamine. And I’m coming through for my team again. And that’s where the excitement comes from. And that’s why it’s frustrating at times. And maybe people really misunderstand me as a player, but those feelings — that’s what I want. You may see a little frustration. It’s because I really want to contribute. I really want to help this team win. But if I’m not getting the ball, obviously, it’s not as fun. Obviously, I want to win. That’s the main goal. But I want to help. I want to do my thing as well. And so it’s a little toll here and there sometimes. But I think that’s where the misunderstanding comes from, from everyone out there. But to be honest, I could really care less. This got me here. You know? And me playing this way, me having that drive, me having that mindset — it’s going to keep me here.”
Eagles Film Review: First time all year the offense felt balanced and sequenced well – BGN
This was the type of game we have all been waiting for from the run game. The Eagles had 10 snaps of true jumbo (six OL) personnel, which produced 114 rushing yards and a TD. Dickerson looked the healthiest he has all year. Jordan Mailata talked about needing to bring back the physical tone after the first Giants game. It was back in this one! Most importantly, the approach changed. This was the first time all year the offense felt balanced and sequenced well. The same core ideas were dressed differently, the sequencing made sense, and you could feel the defense guessing. Two weeks ago, the Giants bullied the Eagles. Yesterday, the Eagles bullied the Giants. The Giants might suck, but dominance is still dominance. What a lovely performance.
NFC East Mixtape Vol. 174: Eagles Tush Push Chaos, Cowboys Embarrassed – BGN YouTube
Week 8 of the 2025 NFL season is officially in the books and the NFC East continues to see all sorts of crazy action from its four teams. This week brought the latest twist of chaos to the Tush Push and it seems everyone but Eagles fans have had enough of it. Philadelphia took down the Giants ultimately, and unfortunately rookie Cam Skattebo was injured in the agme. Elsewhere the Dallas Cowboys absolutely embarrassed themselves and invited all sorts of scrutiny about their overall operation once more. Round and round we go. RJ Ochoa and Brandon Lee Gowton discuss it all on the latest edition of the NFC East Mixtape!
Eagles Bye Week Check-In With BLG – Go Birds Podcast
Brandon Lee Gowton joins James Seltzer and Eliot Shorr-Parks to help assess the Eagles at the Bye Week. Topics of discussion include Nick Sirianni’s performance, AJ Brown’s dissatisfaction and Jalen Hurts’ recent hot streak.
Eagles OL Brett Toth crushed his first NFL start at center – PhillyVoice
The Eagles have gotten standout performances from two different backup offensive linemen this season. Fred Johnson helped stabilize the line when he filled in for an ineffective Matt Pryor against the Rams Week 3, and Toth had a great game against a daunting Giants front Week 8. Cam Jurgens will return to his starting spot at center soon, and Toth will go back to the bench. But what Toth’s and Johnson’s performances have perhaps done is give the Eagles’ coaching staff and the players on the field confidence that they have backups on the interior and on the edge who can get the job done, if need be.
After two months of inconsistency, Kevin Patullo starting to find his groove – NBCSP
There’s no question that Patullo’s play calling over the past two weeks has looked better than earlier in the season. More varied, less predictable. Multiple. Surprising. Even fun. The offense averaged 21.3 points and 275 yards the first six games and 29.5 and 394 yards the last two weeks as the Eagles have rebounded from their first two losses of the season to reach 6-2 going into the bye. But forget the stats. The eye test says this offense is really starting to live up to expectations. Hurts believes all it really took for Patullo to look good as a play caller was for the players to make him look good by executing. “I think he’s gained confidence and gained assurance in what he sees and what he believes as time has gone on,” he said. “And so I look at, ‘How are we helping him? Are we playing penalty free? Are we mastering the things that take no talent? Are we getting in and out of the huddle?’ The little things that can help all of us and help the play caller find a rhythm in what he does. And so we’re very critical of that. I’m very critical of that. That’s always something that I’m talking about, but we just want to continue to build. And he’s been rolling.” If the criticism bothered Patullo, he never let on. He’s been the same every week, and that’s one of the things Sirianni likes about him.
2025 NFL trade deadline: Players to watch, team needs, buzz – ESPN
Key position of need: Cornerback. Across from Quinyon Mitchell, the duo of Adoree’ Jackson and Kelee Ringo has been getting toasted. The Eagles are sixth in DVOA versus WR1s but 19th versus WR2s, and even that undersells the severity of the issue. […] Who could be on the move? Running back AJ Dillon. No, not Brown — he’s not expected to be going anywhere despite heavy speculation and occasional cryptic social media posts. The other AJ makes some sense, though. Tank Bigsby’s emergence in recent weeks (he rushed for over 100 yards against the Giants after Philly traded for him in September) has pushed Dillon down to fourth on the depth chart behind Saquon Barkley, Bigsby and Will Shipley. Dillon has been solid for Philadelphia this season, but there’s not much of a role for him currently.
Spadaro: No Bye Week for Brandon Graham, who eyes his debut in Green Bay – PE.com
This is his Training Camp. That’s the way Brandon Graham is looking at the three weeks from the time he signed a contract to return to the Eagles for his 16th season to when he could make his on-field debut in Green Bay on Monday, November 10. Three weeks. Last week, Graham signed and got on the practice field and worked out some of the kinks from his seven-month retirement. This week, a Bye Week for the team, but a work week for Graham, who continues conditioning and training at the NovaCare Complex. Next week, when the team is back on the practice field preparing for the Packers and the prime-time game at Lambeau Field. “It’s going well and I feel great. I’m excited for this. It’s been fun being back in the mix, working with the fellas,” Graham said. “Being out there on Sunday, Giants, Kelly Green, it was great. I had such much fun working with everybody and seeing how our defense played.”
Meet Allison Stoutland, a children’s book author and ‘Mama Bear’ to the Eagles – Inquirer
It’s not often that Jeff Stoutland gets to see his wife teach. But when he does, he marvels at the sight. Allison Stoutland — “Miss Allison” — can command a room of 20 or 200. And the students, some as young as 4 or 5, aren’t just attentive. They’re entranced. She’ll read from one of her published children’s books, and talk about the insights tucked inside. They are simple but enduring; little lessons like, ‘Monkeys taught me to hang in there,’ and ‘Apples taught me there is a star within each of us.’ She’ll share her journey to becoming an author, and how it all started with her husband getting a job in a city far from home. How she felt alone in that moment, and wondered if her life would take a turn for the worse, only for it to turn better. “People are crying everywhere,” Jeff said. “Kids are crying, teachers are crying. I said to her, ‘I wish I had the ability to motivate the way you do.’” This is high praise from Stoutland, 63, who is widely considered one of the best position coaches in the NFL. For 13 seasons, he has led the Eagles’ offensive line to sustained excellence, guiding seven players to 26 combined Pro Bowl appearances, and five to 15 All-Pro teams.
Eagles coach reacts to viral moment: ‘I haven’t seen that in a long time’ – NJ.com
So of course, Eagles special teams coordinator Michael Clay was asked about Brown’s interesting tackle attempt on Tuesday. Clay, a former linebacker at Oregon, said he had only ever seen someone try to do what Brown did in the 2012 Rose Bowl. “With Sydney, he demands a lot of attention on kickoff coverage because of how active he is,” Clay said with a smile. “It was one of those situations where he tried something new to see what would happen. … And there is some fluidity on what these guys do in terms on block destruction. When I saw that happen, I hadn’t seen that in a long time. But I think the next conversation I have with Sydney, for his own player health and safety, is to keep two feet on the ground.”
Inside the Ronald McDonald House of Southern New Jersey, some very special Philadelphia Eagles fans welcomed a very special visitor Tuesday night. Birds’ rookie linebacker Jihaad Campbell and Swoop brought some cheer to children facing long-term medical care and their families. Guests were treated to a breakfast for dinner buffet, along with photos, autographs and even a friendly game of bingo. “I was born right across the street, so it’s always amazing. I just always like seeing the kids and knowing I can leave a forever lasting impact on somebody,” Campbell said. For Campbell, a South Jersey native, seeing the smiles makes a night like this especially rewarding.
Report: Chicago Bears to sign Chauncey Gardner-Johnson – Windy City Gridiron
With several injuries to the secondary this season, the Chicago Bears are signing veteran Chauncey “C.J.” Gardner-Johnson, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The 27-year-old defensive back has a history with Bears defensive coordinator Dennis Allen, who had him in New Orleans from 2019 to 2021, and a history with head coach Ben Johnson, who was on staff in Detroit when C.J. played there in 2023. He entered the league as a fourth-round pick of the Saints in 2019, and the Bears will be the sixth franchise he’s played for.
Cowboys trade rumors: No extension talks between team and George Pickens – Blogging The Boys
There is nothing stopping the Cowboys from getting an extension done with Pickens now (speaking matter of factly). It makes sense that Pickens would want to wait at this point, given the success he has had so far this season, and use a potential open market to his advantage. This is another situation (like Prescott, Lamb and Parsons) where the Cowboys allowed leverage to slip away from them into the hands of their players. None of this is an advocating for trading Pickens. (I want the opposite personally). But what most of us want, ultimately, is for the Cowboys to have some sort of plan. Their lack of a true North Star has burned them many times in the last few years. In the same offseason that they traded for Pickens in a win-now sort of move, they traded away Parsons, putting the future more in focus. These things do not serve the same end goal. That is what matters most here. A plan has to be in place. If it is and they follow it, even if it is a plan we disagree with, then at the very least they are focusing all of their efforts and energy on one singular idea.
NFL trade deadline rumors for Cowboys, Jaguars, and Giants – SB Nation
Jerry Jones and Dallas ‘open for business.‘ The Dallas Cowboys have a playoff-caliber offense. Their defense, however, is a massive question mark. The Cowboys have allowed 3,237 yards (second-most in the NFL), 31.3 points per game (second-most in the NFL), and have allowed opposition offenses to convert third downs at a 52.4% rate, the worst out of any defense in the league. They need some help on the defensive side of the ball. Owner Jerry Jones said earlier this month that the Cowboys were “open for business,” and Sunday’s blowout loss to the Denver Broncos did not change his position. “A loss is discouraging but as far as my temperament, if I saw a proposition for us to help this team, no matter what this score was today, I would look at it on the merits of this team. If you’re talking about trading for a player or trading a player, I’d completely look at it on the merits of this team, both for next week or the weeks after or for the longer term,” Jones told reporters on Sunday in Denver. “No, today would not affect decisions on trading for a player.” This is where you can let those Micah Parsons jokes fly, friends.
Commanders Vs. Chiefs – Studs and Duds – Hogs Haven
Duds: Deebo Samuel: I know he’s playing through a heel issue, but his hands should be fine. The bobbled pass that got picked early-on was a backbreaker for Washington. Samuel had just three receptions for 11 yards and was responsible for the turnover.
Giants-49ers, Week 9 thoughts: How should Joe Schoen approach NFL trade deadline? – Big Blue View
I am not ready to predict a Giants’ victory on Sunday. You will have to wait and see all of the Big Blue View game picks in Thursday’s Week 9 picks and predictions post. I will say this. Whether quarterback Brock Purdy plays or not, this is a game I have believed is winnable for the Giants ever since the schedule came out several months ago. The 49ers have not scored more than 26 points in a game this season, despite head coach Kyle Shanahan’s reputation as an offensive genius. They have lost defensive end Joey Bosa and linebacker Fred Warner for the season due to injuries. Quarterback Brock Purdy may or may not return from a toe injury this weekend. The Giants have won their last two games at MetLife Stadium, beating the Los Angeles Chargers and Philadelphia Eagles. If the Giants’ defense can remember that the job description involves stopping the guy with the football the Giants have a shot to win this one.
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