The Josh Innes Show - AJ Brown Meltdown Mode Engaged

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

It was only a matter of time until AJ Brown got sick of not catching passes. I understand people who criticize him for whining on an undefeated football team. That said, he's an elite WR and is basically obsolete in this boring, lousy offense. Can the Eagles sustain what they are doing? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A.J. Brown posting cryptic messages. Shocker, shocker, shocker. A lion, or a tiger doesn't change his stripes? A leopard can't change his spots. Or whatever the saying is. That's A.J. Brown. When the guy's getting his, he's happy. It doesn't matter

if the team is winning or losing. As long as he's getting his, he's happy. if the team is winning or losing, and he's not getting his, he's unhappy. Like, the guy is very easy. And I said that when they picked him up. And I saw it when I was in Nashville when I was watching the Titans on a regular basis. A.J. Brown is a mental case. And he's pissed off.

He's unhappy. He was unhappy last week with the offense. This week he's even more unhappy because he's taking the cryptic tweeting route. But that's who A.J. Brown is. Let's get into that after these words. All right. Let's see here. A.J. Brown with his cryptic tweets after the Eagles beat the box, another day in which he did very little. Brown took to social media website X to post a cryptic screenshot after his quiet day in the box score against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The quote in the image was from the Bible citing a gospel verse Mark 611, quote, if you're not welcome to not listen to, quietly withdraw. The quote reads, don't make a scene, shrug your shoulder.

and be on your way. Brown finished Sunday's win with the fewest number of receiving yards of any Eagle pass catcher to record a reception against the Buccaneers. Eagles fans on social media were quick to call out Brown's behavior on social media and its potential to be a distraction to the undefeated team. Quote, I'm sorry you have to deal with all this winning, one fan wrote in a reply. Quote, I'm sure you'd be much happier getting passes from New England Patriots quarterback Drake May with a 6 and 11 record as long as you get your 1,500 yards and 11 TDs. well you're not wrong he would he is a typical wide receiver now i will defend him to a degree and where i'll defend him is like you want to enjoy yourself doing what you're doing like it's

easy as a fan to be out there and be like why can't you just be happy your team is winning well when you have like seven yards receiving and like you're getting targets but a lot of these balls are not well thrown balls like you want to enjoy what it is you do and i'll defend him because the Eagles offense fucking sucks. Like, is he an asshole? Yes. Is he a mental case? Yes.

Like most wide receivers are. The biggest div is on the planet among any athletes in the world are wide receivers. And that's that debate we have all the time on the show is like, do you have to be a lunatic or does being an elite wide receiver turn you into a lunatic? You can debate that all you want. But A.J. Brown is clearly a mental case. And A.J. Brown needs to get his. Just like every wide receiver is. These guys have to get theirs.

and unlike a lot of other positions in sports, you are dependent upon another person to get you the ball. Like you want to get your numbers in baseball. You control your own outcomes. You want to get your numbers in basketball? For the most part, you can control your outcome. In the NFL, you have to count on somebody to get you the ball to get your numbers. And they do not have a good quarterback at getting the ball to dudes.

Like, you guys can sit there and can try to convince me that all Jalen Hertz does his wins. And yes, they're 4-0. but their offense is unwatchable trash and they're winning by doing things that are not sustainable blocked punts multiple interceptions in a game these are things that are not sustainable at some point you will have to line up and you will have to beat a team throwing the football and I get that they did it a couple weeks ago and they overcame the big deficit against the Rams good for them can they do it in a situation where they're not down by 20 and they're forced to do it and I don't believe they can I just don't think their their offense is good I don't think

Jaylenards is good. But as far as A.J. Brown goes, you knew this was coming. You knew that the more weeks went by that he wasn't getting his. You saw it last week. He was kind of cool about it talking to the media after the game. Like, hey, I think our offense, he didn't say this. I'm paraphrasing here. But basically he was saying that the offense is boring and he wasn't getting his.

And that was kind of the angle he took on that, which is, look, we need to open things up. We got all these playmakers. Like, why even pay AJ Brown? if you ain't going to give them the fucking ball. If your offense is Sequin Barclay, who's, by the way, like that's the bigger thing about the Eagles offense that's more of a tragedy. I get that they're 4-0. But, like, just because your 4-0 doesn't mean that there aren't things that can be corrected

and doesn't mean that the dam isn't about to fucking break. This is not a dominant 4-0 where you're going out there and just dominating. Offensively, they are inept. There are stretches where they are inept offensively. They have Seekwan Barkley and the guy's averaging like three yards of carry or something like that. That's Saquan Barkley. put up 130 yards of offense per game last year. That number's down to like 70 this year.

They got A.J. Brown, who's getting like eight yards a game. So that's real. Like, you can sit back and be like, oh, haters, man, we're finding a way to win. You and I both know that the way they are winning is not sustainable. And it's not sustainable because offensively, they are dreadful. A.J. Brown, nine targets, two catches, seven. yards. One of the catches was for zero yards.

Now, on one hand, you might go, well, wait a minute. He got nine targets. Why aren't you happy? Admittedly, I didn't watch every play of that game. I didn't watch a lot of that game. So I have no idea if these targets were actually well-thrown balls. If he dropped him, I don't know if he had any drops in the game. I don't think he had any drops. Like, just because you're targeted doesn't mean that the quarterback is getting you catchable balls. Like, you could throw a ball 10 miles over a guy's head, but he threw it in your

direction and it's a target. So, like, it's tough to watch the Eagles. And I don't believe what they're doing can be sustained. They're 4-0. I mean, you look at their plus-minus has to be ridiculous. They are, the special teams have been absurd. You know, the block kick, obviously, at the end of the Rams game was huge. Yesterday, they got things going with a block kick.

Like, look, credit to them. But, you know, when you watch teams just kind of hang on and win games like this, you ask yourself, how long can you do that? How long can you continue to win games with an inept offense? And going into the game, they were near the bottom in the NFL in rushing offense. They were near the bottom in passing offense. And I don't know where they stand now. I can look that up, but it can't be all that good.

Let's see, NFL offensive rankings. Let's take a look and see what the team totals are. All right, let's see. So if you look at yards per game, again, that's not the end-all-be-all, and part of that's going to be a smaller number for the Eagles. because they get blocked kicks and they score defensively, and I get all that. The Eagles, in terms of just overall yards, the Eagles are actually, let's see, that is offensive. They're total, let's see, yards per game.

They are the third worst in the NFL in yards per game. You want to know the two teams worse? The Bengals, who've had a backup quarterback for the last two weeks, and the Titans who might be one of the worst teams in the history of football. Well, what about their passing offense? Well, their passing offense is second to last at 138 yards per game behind only the Titans, who, as we mentioned, are one of the worst teams in the history of football, particularly offensively where they are dreadful. Rushing, a team that's got Sequin Barclay and Jalen Hertz, rushing offense, the Eagles are middle of the pack.

Teams that are above the Eagles include the New Orleans Saints, the Cowboys, the Broncos, The Jaguars, the Falcons. So they're middle of the pack running the football. But then you look at the points per game and they're going to be somewhere up near the top. 27 points per game, they're like number seven in the league and points per game. But a lot of what they're doing revolves around getting stops on special teams, making big plays in special teams, turning guys over. So again, part of it is they're getting some shorter fields. Part of it is they're not needing to score a ton of points because they are up in games because they are getting turnovers and they're getting block kicks.

So I get that. But you cannot watch what they're doing and just say, oh, just win, baby. Like even the most just win baby guy out there has to watch this and be like, this is terrible. And can it be sustained? And then you've got A.J. Brown, who is a guy like, you look around the league. Every team that has an elite receiver is finding ways to get these guys involved. and the Eagles can't. But the difference for the Eagles right now

is they are plus four in turnover differential, which is fourth in the NFL. And that's where they are. Then you look at them in special teams. They are arguably like the best special teams team in the NFL right now with some of the shit they're doing. So can that be sustained? I don't believe in them.

And I know, oh, you're a hater, you're whatever. Anytime I bring this kind of shit up on social media, which is a fruitless endeavor, by the way. It becomes, boy, someone's jealous that he got ran out of town, which is a real dumb argument, isn't it? Like, any time you're critical of a football team or any sort of team in your city, it becomes, well, somebody's jealous because they're still, oh, someone's salty because they got run out of town. Like, no, I really don't give a fuck. I got ran out of town, quote unquote, ran out of town nine fucking years ago. I don't care.

I don't give a shit. Oh, somebody got ran out of town and they're just salty. No, your fucking offense sucks. So you can come at me with, oh, you're salty. No, your offense is dog shit, and you know your offense is dog shit. And the dudes on the offense know it's dog shit. So congrats on being a, like, look, they didn't complete a pass in the second half. They did not complete a pass in the second half.

Well, it's because we didn't need to. We didn't need to complete a pass. No other team in the world operates that way. No other team in the world is like, well, we got a quarterback that we think is great. But we try to avoid having him throw as much as possible. That is only the Eagles. No other team operates that way. And it's like, oh, well, you know, we didn't need to throw.

You always need to throw. The Detroit Lions were up 14 points late in the game or whatever it was late in the game or 14 points. They didn't need to throw. They could have ran it three times and kicked the field goal. But they still threw it a couple of times to put the dagger in them. because they can. The Eagles cannot. The Eagles have one of the great receivers in the game,

and they cannot get him the ball because the quarterback sucks. Oh, but you're just salty. You're salty that you got kicked out. Fuck you. There's no salt at all. Like, it must be weird to live in that kind of world where, like, that's how you view things. Like, oh, this person's only being critical for two reasons.

One, they're trying to get attention. Or two, they're salty. Can you imagine being someone who hasn't lived somewhere for now? nine years has had like four or five different jobs since then yet would be salty about a football team that has nothing to do with their live like why would i be salty it's so it's such a dumb idiot fan logic but anyway the eagles fucking offense is terrible and they will get their comeuppance eventually i don't hate like i don't hate the eagles because i got run out of philly quote unquote i hate them because they're difficult to fucking watch because they suck and it's

annoying watching a team that sucks continue to find ways to win. And it will not last forever, God damn it. More to come.