How will Eagles offense fare without A.J. Brown?
Dave Zangaro and Reuben Frank discuss the outlook for the Eagles offense after the trade that sent A.J. Brown to the Patriots.
How will Eagles offense fare without A.J. Brown? originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
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Is that something that excites you, though, to be a wide receiver one this week again?
I mean, I'm just going out there and do my job.
I mean, regardless, whatever, however you wanna look at it, one, two, three, four, whatever you wanna look at it.
At the end of the day, we all have jobs and we gotta go out there and do it.
Ru, so how do you think the Eagles, particularly Jalen Hurts and DeVonta Smith, perform now without AJ Brown?
I think they'll be fine.
you know, Jalen was really good with, before AJ got here.
He'll be really good after AJ leaves.
We know how good DeVonta is.
There's no question in my mind he can be the number one that he, he's gotta be now.
I think he's a top 10 receiver in the league.
And with more targets, the numbers are gonna go up.
I see him as a, as a 1,300-yard type of guy this year.
he's that good.
He's tough.
You know, he's, he's tough to defend.
He's fast.
Playmaker.
cat- tough catches in traffic.
I mean, we've seen it.
We just haven't seen it as much as we will this coming year.
So, I think the offense will be fine.
They got a, a good new coordinator, and they're both in good hands.
Yeah.
Look, I, I think that Jalen Hurts, his career took a big step forward in 2022 when they got AJ Brown.
It doesn't mean he won't perform well without him, but I mean, that was a really big moment in his career.
That '22 season, he, that was almost an MVP season.
Yeah, he was very, very close.
Look, I mean, they're gonna miss AJ.
There's no doubt about it, but I mean, the, the show must go on, and they have other good players.
They have other good receivers.
Howie's done a good job, I think, of creating some, you know, some depth at that position that they maybe didn't have in previous years.
They're really just too deep, and I think they go deeper than that now.
but we'll see.
There's a lot of question marks at wide receiver, and we don't know that Mekhi Lemon's gonna play, be the player that they want him to be.
We don't know if Hollywood Brown or DeVonta Wicks, w- you know, Elijah Moore, we don't know if any of these guys are gonna pan out.
So there's a lot of questions.
You're losing an all-pro.
but I, I think they're in fairly good shape.
Yeah.
And the other question is just about how, how does the scheme fit in to all this?
You have a new scheme.
Is that gonna work with Jalen Hurts?
Is it gonna work with DeVonta Smith?
We don't know that yet.
We'll find out hopefully in training camp.
