
You speak about what you can see and hear from Aj yet conveniently ignore the fact he said Philly is his home and he doesn’t wanna leave. He wanted Patullo gone, as did all of us. He was just the only one on the team who actually said something, because he wears his heart on his sleeve
Keep in mind he only ever said anything about the offense in 2024 because he was asked how they could improve on a bad offensive performance, he of course mentioned passing, because that game Jalen had 108 yards, passing offense greatly improved since then, because we had an actual good coordinator willing to make changes and adjust
No I don’t remember the story of the first four weeks in 2024 about how the passing game was terrible and had him reading books because HE WAS INJURED THOSE FIRST 4 WEEKS, AND THE BOOK, WHICH BY THE WAY HE READS FOR MOTIVATION IN EVERY GAME, THAT BOOK WAS NOT CAUGHT ON CAMERA UNTIL THE WILDCARD GAME AGAINST THE PACKERS
He’s an eagles fan. You’re never gonna convince him. To him, the eagles are the best run organization, have the best defense, best OL, best coaching staff, and best skill position group and will easily win the Super Bowl next year. And if they don’t, it will conveniently be the coordinator’s fault (since Sirianni apparently does nothing. He isn’t even the real CEO of the team, that role belongs to Big Dom.)
You may think I’m an idiot but it doesn’t exactly take a Mensa member to link AJ Brown to the Patriots (a team he grew up a fan of, coached by his former coach, with a clear need at WR). The idea that the Patriots might pursue AJ Brown was floated last offseason, and by people not named Diana Russini. Whether her reporting on his discontent is without an ulterior motive or not is irrelevant when discussing AJ Brown to the Patriots rumors
Howie’s definitely still the best gm in football, defense could def use some work on the edge and at safety wouldn’t say we’re better than the Texans or Seahawks but we’re up there if we stay healthy, oline definitely has some holes with dickerson and jurgens injury problems and steens weakness in run blocking, coaching staff is an unknown since the entire offensive staff got overhauled
Skill position group could use some work hopefully tank will get more carries next year and Barkley won’t continue to regress, definitely need better receiver depth past aj and smitty, Hollywood brown’s not gonna cut it, te is an issue, specially in blocking, hopefully goedert puts some effort in instead of just trying to play as safe as possible prepping to hit free agency, though he is great in the receiving game
Howie is kinda overrated, definitely one of the best in football but his reputation shouldn’t be quite as high as it is (drafted Reagor over Jefferson, Arcega-Whiteside over DK, AJ Brown, Terry McLaurin etc, allowed Kelee Ringo and Adoree Jackson to remain employed and these are just off the top of my head)
The other aspect of the trade is the ability to pay AJ, which the Rams don’t have. But you’re proving my point, trade rumors always circulate around guys who are rumored to be discontented with certain insiders giving the edge to certain suitors and that doesn’t disprove the discontent
Plenty of other players were also selected over Justin Jefferson Aj brown dk and mclaurin, we ended up with Aj anyways, wouldn’t have gotten smitty if we picked Jefferson there, adoree was plenty serviceable down the stretch he just needed lik 5-6 games to get used to the system, he had an incredibly tough job since it’s so goddamn inadvisable to throw towards coop or Q. Anyways he also managed to draft Devonta smith, Milton Williams, Jordan Davis, Jalen Carter, Quinyon Mitchell, and dejean
I mean the substance to me is that as happy as AJ is in Philly he might also be happy in a system where he’s the clear number one option (Philly is clearly a run first team and because Devonta is also in the receiver room and Goedert is a great tight end the number one target in the pass game isn’t exactly clear cut), it makes sense to move AJ while he’s closer to the peak of his value in order to get your maximum return, and financially clearing space to pay guys makes sense too
Mitchell, Carter, and DeJean are all gonna need their money and holding on to AJ at his current price as he approaches 30 doesn’t seem like the way you’d hold on to those key defensive pieces. Look at the Bengals, they paid their QB and both receivers and are paying basically nobody on defense and that’s the model the Eagles currently have but as those defensive guys come up for second contracts it won’t last