17 minutes ago, time2rock said:

I think he doesn't get what they think they will and he stays. And brown doesn't like the choices so they bury it for another year.

27 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

I think he doesn't get what they think they will and he stays. And brown doesn't like the choices so they bury it for another year.

Yup

1 hour ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

I think he doesn't get what they think they will and he stays. And brown doesn't like the choices so they bury it for another year.

The Eagles should be telling him to buy into the new offense, ball out, increase his value for a trade and another team to give him a contract extension.

7 hours ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

True, but history has shown disgruntled receivers don't fetch much. Especially ones that act like a-holes after winning a super bowl.

I understand, but Howie has to focus on the Eagles first. I mean how many players would a 40mil cap hit cost the Eagles to resign or sign in free agency? So potentially the team could lose out on players or resign key players for a 3rd to 4th round pick? That’s not worth it in my opinion and I bet Howie thinks so too. I believe that the Eagles allowed A.J. to seek a trade, but they made it clear you’re going nowhere anytime soon until we have our roster set up unless a team is willing to come to our demands. Perhaps it’s also a bit of a humbling experience for Brown too. No one is willing to pony up the price or even come close to it. The Eagles have some key young talent to lock up and trading Brown for a mid round pick (that could jeopardize their chances of extending or brining back those guys) doesn’t seem worth it. AJ likely gets dealt in my opinion, but when it’s in the best interest of the Eagles.

2 hours ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

I think he doesn't get what they think they will and he stays. And brown doesn't like the choices so they bury it for another year.

I haven’t heard that the Eagles are actively shopping Brown. I’ve only heard Howie say he’s listening. That sounds to me like if they want him then they need to step up to get him.

5 hours ago, EazyEaglez said:

I haven’t heard that the Eagles are actively shopping Brown. I’ve only heard Howie say he’s listening. That sounds to me like if they want him then they need to step up to get him.

It was reported that they are looking for a 1st and a 2nd. If that is truly what they are asking he is going nowhere this year

Yeah, they are not going to get a 1st and a 2nd for him.

Get a 2nd, a 4th and maybe a player?

14 hours ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

It was reported that they are looking for a 1st and a 2nd. If that is truly what they are asking he is going nowhere this year

That to me seems negotiation tactic. The number probably changes drastically post June 1st. The people on the radio are all freaking out. You know I’ve doubted Howie for years. Not anymore. I trust Howie on this. He’s going to do what’s best for the Eagles.

13 hours ago, LacesOut said:

Yeah, they are not going to get a 1st and a 2nd for him.

Get a 2nd, a 4th and maybe a player?

They might get some kind of conditional pick like they did with Carson.

22 hours ago, NOTW said:

The Eagles should be telling him to buy into the new offense, ball out, increase his value for a trade and another team to give him a contract extension.

I guess he thinks he can make bank on past accomplishments and that his recent performance and displays of frustration won't impact any of that. Maybe teams will buy into it. Maybe not. It would be in his best interest to do as you say. And would be best for us as well. Trading him next offseason would result in only a $27M dead cap hit (pre-June 1 so entire hit on 2027 cap). If they went the post June 1 route, it would result in $11.7M in dead money and $11M in cap savings. Of course the return is likely to be less as well.

Smart thing would be to stay and ball out so he can get a his last nice contract from another team

11 hours ago, EazyEaglez said:

They might get some kind of conditional pick like they did with Carson.

The reason the Eagles can get higher compensation for him in a trade is because they are on the hook for a large part of his contract. So another team would be acquiring a top WR without a large cap hit.

The thing about AJ is he wants to dominate opponents. If he can play for a team that passes a lot, he probably wouldn't appear to be problematic. So there may be better fits for him than the 2022-2025 Eagles offense. A trade would need to be a good fit for him and fair compensation for the Eagles to make any sense.

16 hours ago, brkmsn said:

The reason the Eagles can get higher compensation for him in a trade is because they are on the hook for a large part of his contract. So another team would be acquiring a top WR without a large cap hit.

The thing about AJ is he wants to dominate opponents. If he can play for a team that passes a lot, he probably wouldn't appear to be problematic. So there may be better fits for him than the 2022-2025 Eagles offense. A trade would need to be a good fit for him and fair compensation for the Eagles to make any sense.

When dealing with trades, teams rarely care what the player wants. Team 1st...

I'm really confused though... either someone is making things up or AJ is a liar. Bc right out of his own mouth when he was on Gronks podcast he said... I love Philly, this is my home, I wanna stay.

1 hour ago, Portyansky said:

I'm really confused though... either someone is making things up or AJ is a liar. Bc right out of his own mouth when he was on Gronks podcast he said... I love Philly, this is my home, I wanna stay.

His agent probably told him to play it cool if he doesn't want to be viewed as a malcontent which could impact what he will be compensated in his next contract.

7 minutes ago, time2rock said:

His agent probably told him to play it cool if he doesn't want to be viewed as a malcontent which could impact what he will be compensated in his next contract.

At this point I’m not really sure a team can view him any other way? He did this in Tennessee and for 3 years now he’s been a bit of a problem here with the way he’s talked and conducted himself at times. I honestly think we’d be doing very well to get even a third for him.

10 hours ago, Portyansky said:

When dealing with trades, teams rarely care what the player wants. Team 1st...

That wasn't really the point. A team isn't going to give up a lot for a player that doesn't want to go there. So for a trade to make sense, it would need to be a good fit for AJ.

People often have a hard time with nuance and complexity. Multiple things can be true about the AJ Brown situation.

• AJ is a competitor who wants to achieve and if he doesn't, he gets frustrated

• He shows too much of his frustration through comments in interviews and his famous cryptic tweets and should know better than to add fuel to the fire

• He's a dominant receiver and dangerous weapon for an offense

• He let his frustration show in his performance this year on many plays talked about throughout the season

• He's well liked by his teammates who voted him as captain and continually defend him

• Howie and Nick praise him and defend him

• Dom brought Lurie over during a practice to chat with him and ask him to stop the public comments and social media stuff

• AJ suffers from depression (and likely anxiety as they often are both present at some levels) which can impact his reactions when things aren't going well

• AJ cares about promoting mental health awareness and trying to help others

• The organization continues to support him.

• If he is truly frustrated enough to want to go to another team, Howie will listen to offers but not accept a bad deal.

• Given the imbalance of salary on offense vs defense, they simply have to get more offense on rookie deals. So without any problems, AJ would probably be traded when it's financially feasible regardless, especially since he'll want a new contract.

People react with extremes about him calling him a "cancer" and a "diva." Most WRs have a little bit of that diva, it's been a stereotype for a long time. He's not a T.O. He's not Stefon Diggs. He's not a guy out there committing crimes or doing anything truly cancer like.

IMO he's in the perfect organization to handle and support him. Well liked, Siri is a player's coach that embraces different personalities and always defends his players. The team supports mental health awareness: the Autism foundation, Lane Johnson's issues, etc. There are teams where he wouldn't be as supported. There are teams that won't succeed as much as the Eagles and will he show more frustration at losing? I don't think there's a better team situation for him but perhaps if he goes somewhere else and racks up personal stats that will help him feel better, I don't know.

Maybe Chicago is moving Moore because they intend to trade for AJ.

I wish we could pin a post to the top of a topic.

22 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

For the 8 millionth time, unless we extend Goedert before 3/10 (and thereby defer some of his $20mm cap hit when his contract voids on that date), we can't trade AJ Brown before June 1. Post all the idiocy from beat reporters and "analysts" you want, but math is indeed math.

This would leave us with just over $4mm in cap space to sign: multiple TEs, CB2, starting S, and multiple edge rushers. Can't get all that from the draft. And Howie usually keeps cap space going into the year of around ~$5mm.

On 1/14/2026 at 6:22 PM, GeorgeM37 said:

I HATE that JD may be leaving...he was soooo damn underutilized and made the most of everything that came his way....he was a number one draft pick and his talent has been wasted so far.....

I doubt there’s much there unfortunately. The Commanders didn’t have much and they walked away from him despite actually having a solid rookie season. Word out of the DC area was he had trouble remembering the playbook. He never seemed to catch on much here either. I could be wrong about him, but I think expecting him to be an AJ Brown replacement is a dead end.

16 hours ago, brkmsn said:

That wasn't really the point. A team isn't going to give up a lot for a player that doesn't want to go there. So for a trade to make sense, it would need to be a good fit for AJ.

It also needs to be a good fit for the Eagles too. Why take a massive cap hit and lose an all pro level talent for a mid round pick? Just to make AJ happy? Sorry, but that doesn’t fly. I think this isn’t going to be a quick decision. If teams want the Eagles to make a major talent and financial hit at this time they will need to pay up. The Eagles have a lot of holes to fill. They can’t afford to blow everything up just to make AJ happy and some rival team better.

4 hours ago, NOTW said:

People often have a hard time with nuance and complexity. Multiple things can be true about the AJ Brown situation.

• AJ is a competitor who wants to achieve and if he doesn't, he gets frustrated

• He shows too much of his frustration through comments in interviews and his famous cryptic tweets and should know better than to add fuel to the fire

• He's a dominant receiver and dangerous weapon for an offense

• He let his frustration show in his performance this year on many plays talked about throughout the season

• He's well liked by his teammates who voted him as captain and continually defend him

• Howie and Nick praise him and defend him

• Dom brought Lurie over during a practice to chat with him and ask him to stop the public comments and social media stuff

• AJ suffers from depression (and likely anxiety as they often are both present at some levels) which can impact his reactions when things aren't going well

• AJ cares about promoting mental health awareness and trying to help others

• The organization continues to support him.

• If he is truly frustrated enough to want to go to another team, Howie will listen to offers but not accept a bad deal.

• Given the imbalance of salary on offense vs defense, they simply have to get more offense on rookie deals. So without any problems, AJ would probably be traded when it's financially feasible regardless, especially since he'll want a new contract.

People react with extremes about him calling him a "cancer" and a "diva." Most WRs have a little bit of that diva, it's been a stereotype for a long time. He's not a T.O. He's not Stefon Diggs. He's not a guy out there committing crimes or doing anything truly cancer like.

IMO he's in the perfect organization to handle and support him. Well liked, Siri is a player's coach that embraces different personalities and always defends his players. The team supports mental health awareness: the Autism foundation, Lane Johnson's issues, etc. There are teams where he wouldn't be as supported. There are teams that won't succeed as much as the Eagles and will he show more frustration at losing? I don't think there's a better team situation for him but perhaps if he goes somewhere else and racks up personal stats that will help him feel better, I don't know.

The Philly media is out here saying that AJ was begging for a trade out of here as early as week 3 last season. He’s on social media platforms telling people to drop him in fantasy and saying how miserable he is. He’s the one who decided to take to social media after a Super Bowl victory to say how unsatisfied he was. Then the playoff drops and the shouting with his coach. The rumored broken relationship between him and Hurts that current and former players have commented about. I mean I don’t view this s the fans overreacting. It just feels so schizophrenic at times, because he also talks about how he sees Philly as his home. In the end I want Howie to do what’s best for the Eagles and if that means keeping him until the best deal shows up then so be it. I really do wonder what went wrong here. Jalen used to throw him the ball in triple coverage and now it’s like he has to be wide open for Jalen to even look his way. How much of this is on Jalen? How much of this was on the OC and that crappy offense? How much of this is on Brown himself? Why can’t the HC get these guys on the same page considering that supposed to be his greatest asset? I don’t think it’s helped anyone that every year we see a new OC either.

4 hours ago, NOTW said:

People often have a hard time with nuance and complexity. Multiple things can be true about the AJ Brown situation.

• AJ is a competitor who wants to achieve and if he doesn't, he gets frustrated

• He shows too much of his frustration through comments in interviews and his famous cryptic tweets and should know better than to add fuel to the fire

• He's a dominant receiver and dangerous weapon for an offense

• He let his frustration show in his performance this year on many plays talked about throughout the season

• He's well liked by his teammates who voted him as captain and continually defend him

• Howie and Nick praise him and defend him

• Dom brought Lurie over during a practice to chat with him and ask him to stop the public comments and social media stuff

• AJ suffers from depression (and likely anxiety as they often are both present at some levels) which can impact his reactions when things aren't going well

• AJ cares about promoting mental health awareness and trying to help others

• The organization continues to support him.

• If he is truly frustrated enough to want to go to another team, Howie will listen to offers but not accept a bad deal.

• Given the imbalance of salary on offense vs defense, they simply have to get more offense on rookie deals. So without any problems, AJ would probably be traded when it's financially feasible regardless, especially since he'll want a new contract.

People react with extremes about him calling him a "cancer" and a "diva." Most WRs have a little bit of that diva, it's been a stereotype for a long time. He's not a T.O. He's not Stefon Diggs. He's not a guy out there committing crimes or doing anything truly cancer like.

IMO he's in the perfect organization to handle and support him. Well liked, Siri is a player's coach that embraces different personalities and always defends his players. The team supports mental health awareness: the Autism foundation, Lane Johnson's issues, etc. There are teams where he wouldn't be as supported. There are teams that won't succeed as much as the Eagles and will he show more frustration at losing? I don't think there's a better team situation for him but perhaps if he goes somewhere else and racks up personal stats that will help him feel better, I don't know.

The Philly media is out here saying that AJ was begging for a trade out of here as early as week 3 last season. He’s on social media platforms telling people to drop him in fantasy and saying how miserable he is. He’s the one who decided to take to social media after a Super Bowl victory to say how unsatisfied he was. Then the playoff drops and the shouting with his coach. The rumored broken relationship between him and Hurts that current and former players have commented about. I mean I don’t view this s the fans overreacting. It just feels so schizophrenic at times, because he also talks about how he sees Philly as his home. In the end I want Howie to do what’s best for the Eagles and if that means keeping him until the best deal shows up then so be it. I really do wonder what went wrong here. Jalen used to throw him the ball in triple coverage and now it’s like he has to be wide open for Jalen to even look his way. How much of this is on Jalen? How much of this was on the OC and that crappy offense? How much of this is on Brown himself? Why can’t the HC get these guys on the same page considering that supposed to be his greatest asset? I don’t think it’s helped anyone that every year we see a new OC either.

On 3/2/2026 at 11:32 AM, Bwestbrook36 said:

I think he doesn't get what they think they will and he stays. And brown doesn't like the choices so they bury it for another year.

Probably the case unless the team flat out implodes. Then maybe AJ is a trade deadline move and the Eagles make wholesale changes.