A.J. Brown not apologizing for comments, explains frustration

Eagles receiver A.J. Brown on Wednesday explained his comments on a Twitch stream and the source of his obvious frustration.

By Dave Zangaro • Published November 12, 2025

A.J. Brown is frustrated.

That’s why he wasn’t willing on Wednesday to walk back his comments on a recent Twitch stream, where he said "it’s a s—show” about his current situation and added, "If you got me on fantasy, get rid of me,” among other things to streamer JankyRondo.

"I think that’s fair,” Brown said by his locker after Wednesday’s walkthrough. "I think if you have eyes you could see that. It’s the same things I’ve been saying all season. So me making light of my situation on Twitch with my friend, that’s something I’m not apologizing for. Because, like I said, if you got eyes, you could see that. Shoot, that’s me trying to laugh through my situation.”

Brown is right. It’s not hard to see that the 28-year-old Pro Bowl receiver is frustrated right now.

And it’s not even hard to see why.

Even though the Eagles have a 7-2 record and are atop the NFC standings, their offense has struggled plenty this season. It happened again on Monday night in a tight 10-7 win over the Packers as Brown was targeted just three times.

"I see that the offense is struggling and I want to help contribute,” Brown said. "I didn’t get those opportunities. I’m going to have a problem with that, especially the player I am, especially the player you want me to be.

"As a player, that’s tough for me. That’s tough for everybody else because everybody wants to contribute. Even [DeVonta Smith] said somebody had to make the play. We’re trying to put ourself in the best situation to make those plays. You just gotta get an opportunity. I didn’t get that.”

While Brown missed one game before the bye week with a hamstring injury, there’s now a big enough body of work this season to see a career-worst pace. In eight games, Brown has just 31 catches for 408 yards and 3 touchdowns. He is averaging a career-low 48.1 yards per game.

This is a guy who has cleared 1,000 yards in each of his first three seasons with the Eagles, going over 1,400 yards in 2022 and 2023.

And this is also a guy who talked before the season about putting a stamp on his being the best receiver in the NFL. Entering Week 11 of the 2025 season, Brown is 50th in the NFL in receiving yards.

There are probably multiple reasons why the ball hasn’t found Brown as much this season and only went his way three times on Monday night. There’s no doubt that defenses are giving him extra attention. And Brown said he has no problem freeing up his teammates — like the attention he warrants freeing up Smith on the game-winning touchdown Monday — but he also wants to actually contribute.

"I think it’s fair for me to even say that we do need to do a better job of creating for me, trying to help put me in situations to help to contribute,” Brown said. "But right now, it just feels as if I’m just freeing it up for everybody.”

While Brown is expressing these frustrations publicly, he said there has been "non-stop communication” behind the scenes as the Eagles try to fix their offense. And he said he’s "always optimistic” those changes will take hold.

Of course, it is now Week 11 and the Eagles are beyond the halfway point of their regular season schedule.

Over the last few seasons, the Eagles have wrestled with the idea of winning vs. playing to their standard. So when it was presented to Brown that the Eagles are 7-2 amid his frustration, he explained his stance on that, asking when the offense is going to pick up its slack.

"It’s not that I don’t care about winning, all I care about is stats, no,” Brown said. "It’s been week after week sometimes we’re not contributing, we’re not doing our job on offense. You can’t just keep slapping a Band-Aid over that if you expect to win later in the year. You think you’re just going to go to it at the end of the year? It’s not going to f—ing happen. It’s not going to happen. It’s not going to happen. 

"Last year, what it was, thank you for the ring, but it’s a new season. They adapted. We have to adapt and we have to continue to get better and find new ways. That’s where the frustration comes in. Because it’s not about winning, you guys. I want to win, yes. I want to help contribute as well. Do our thing on offense as well. I think that’s fair.”

Head coach Nick Sirianni earlier on Wednesday was asked if these comments from Brown are becoming a distraction and he said no. For what it’s worth, Brown is still a well-liked player in the Eagles’ locker room. Before his media scrum on Wednesday, Saquon Barkley walked by and the two joked about the crowd gathering to hear Brown speak.

When asked if he feels misunderstood with his frustration, Brown said he didn’t care. Instead, he stressed the importance of needing to improve on offense to help the team.

He’s not wrong about that part of it. The Eagles’ offense with all its talent is 23rd in yards this season — 25th in passing and 21st in rushing.

As for how he expressed his frustration? On a public streaming platform? 

"It’s not that I’m throwing anybody under the bus,” Brown said. "I’m literally trying to laugh through this s—. This s— is tough. But I’m trying to make fun of the situation to try to get through it. It is what it is, man.”

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Eagles receiver A.J. Brown on Wednesday explained his comments on a Twitch stream and the source of his obvious frustration.

"It’s been week after week sometimes we’re not contributing, we’re not doing our job on offense. You can’t just keep slapping a Band-Aid over that if you expect to win later in the year. You think you’re just going to go to it at the end of the year? It’s not going to f—ing happen. It’s not going to happen. It’s not going to happen.

This is his key point and I 100% agree.

They adapted. We have to adapt and we have to continue to get better and find new ways.

Another key point, and it seems between Siri, Patullo and Hurts they always struggle in this area (how to adapt to what the defense is doing and scheming ways to get Brown and your best players involved on a consistent basis.

2 hours ago, EaglesAddict said:

This is his key point and I 100% agree.

Another key point, and it seems between Siri, Patullo and Hurts they always struggle in this area (how to adapt to what the defense is doing and scheming ways to get Brown and your best players involved on a consistent basis.

Yep. Some people think he doesn't care about winning because of these comments ... such a ridiculous take. We ARE winning but, like 2023, there have been numerous games that could easily have gone the other way. And in pretty much all of them the offense has underwhelmed (we were either saved by defense or STs like that Rams game ... 2 blocked FGs, 1 returned for a TD). He is just frustrated because the offense could be so much better with the players they have. If our offense was performing to the level it should be capable of, it would certainly ease a lot of concerns. That all comes down to game planning, creative play design to get the ball to your best playmakers, etc. They (Sirianni and Patullo) simply are not doing that. Damn I miss Moore!

41 minutes ago, time2rock said:

Yep. Some people think he doesn't care about winning because of these comments ... such a ridiculous take. We ARE winning but, like 2023, there have been numerous games that could easily have gone the other way. And in pretty much all of them the offense has underwhelmed (we were either saved by defense or STs like that Rams game ... 2 blocked FGs, 1 returned for a TD). He is just frustrated because the offense could be so much better with the players they have. If our offense was performing to the level it should be capable of, it would certainly ease a lot of concerns. That all comes down to game planning, creative play design to get the ball to your best playmakers, etc. They (Sirianni and Patullo) simply are not doing that. Damn I miss Moore!

It's mind boggling, isn't it? Maybe one day on a 30for30 show we'll get better insight, lol.

I was low key hoping Sirianni would have brought in Frank Reich. Here's to hoping KP can get his head out of Sirianni's arse and start, you know, coordinating the offense!

I’m sorry but AJ is just so far out of line. He was one of my favourite players, now I can’t wait for him to be gone. I get he’s frustrated and he has every right to be but he needs to keep it in house because this isn’t helpful. It may not be hurting us right now but it isn’t helping either.

Sirianni is fed up of talking about it, Hurts shuts it down. The team is 7-2, winning games and has a chance to go win another Super Bowl so just shut up AJ. And to be honest there’s multiple things at play here. Do we really think the team isn’t trying to get him the ball? Smitty isn’t having problems. Goedert is being used and in the red zone is a beast. I think AJ also isn’t what he was and put that together with a lack of effort at times that is adding up.