There is a shortage of brotherly love in Philadelphia right now.
The Eagles have won 10 straight but locker room issues are threatening to bring the house of cards crashing down.
Veteran defensive end Brandon Graham confirmed that star wideout AJ Brown and quarterback Jalen Hurts had fallen out during a radio appearance on Monday night.
The duo’s relationship goes back to high school and Hurts tried to recruit his friend to join him at college in Alabama.
But Brown caused a media storm when he appeared to hit out at his QB following a narrow win over the Carolina Panthers.
“Passing,” he bluntly replied when asked what the offense needs to improve on.
“They were friends, but things have changed,” Graham said. “I understand that because life happens.
“But it’s the business side that we have to make sure that we don’t let the personal get in the way of the business.”
Graham quickly walked back his comments.
“I made a mistake and I assumed that it was something that it wasn’t,” he told ESPN. “I just want to win so bad that I don’t just want to use the media when we need to talk about something and we can fix the problem ourselves. I didn’t add to it in a good light, so that’s my bad.
“I just assumed, and it made me out to look even worse because I had it all wrong and now people are going to run with that part. I really just want to win, man, and I want brothers to be able to just hash it out.”
Legendary receiver Chad ‘Ochocinco’ Johnson understands Brown’s frustrations but says he should have gone straight to Hurts.
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“I need to pull him aside and have that conversation but don’t do it this way because now all eyes are on Jalen Hurts,” he said on the Nightcap podcast.
“Thel eyes and the pressure while you’re winning, you’re winning. Let me add that. Your team is winning.”
“It comes off as being selfish,” replied co-host Shannon Sharpe. “And I don’t think that he is.
“I think he’s a competitor. He wants to contribute. I think he realizes, ‘In order for us to get to where we need to be, I’m going to have to catch more than three or four balls.'”
Sharpe thinks Hurts is struggling to get into a rhythm with Saquon Barkley being handed the ball so often – a tactic that may not cut it against playoff teams.
“They’re gonna have to figure this thing out,” he added. “You’re not gonna win.
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“I don’t believe that the Eagles can go to where they want to go to with Jalen Hurts throwing the ball 19 times.”
Brown and Hurts’ issues have spilled over and brought a decades-old beef back into the spotlight.
“It’s two grown men,” commented Dominic McNabb – the Eagles’ QB from 1999 to 2009. “If you got an issue, you come to me.
“Let’s not go through the media because now it blows up and what you said is out there in front of everybody.”
Wideout Terrell Owens, who helped guide the Eagles to a Super Bowl appearance alongside McNabb in 2004, then waded in.
“Now this is interesting is coming from you,” Owens wrote on X.
“Not how I interpreted it but funny thing is, I agree with you on the idea of if you have issue with someone that you go to them and not the media but here’s the thing I ‘never’ had an issue with you but it’s known that you had an issue with me so maybe you should’ve taken your advice here.
“Oh yeh…And we might have won Super 39 but that’s another story for another day… You gave yours, I’m giving mine.”
Owens and McNabb are still wondering what might have been two decades later, the current Eagles need to bury the hatchet or their self-inflicted wounds may never heal.