Brandon Graham apologizes for comments about Hurts-Brown relationship originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
The next morning making comments Regarding the relationship between Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown, longtime Eagles leader Brandon Graham returned to 94WIP Tuesday morning to apologize.
Graham, 36, said he made assumptions about their relationship. He apologized for that and for speaking publicly about an issue behind closed doors.
Here’s how Graham’s half hour on WIP began Tuesday morning:
“First, I want to start by apologizing to my boys. I was going to see them today anyway, but I want to start publicly here first since we were all here. I made the assumption. I didn’t know all the details and I still don’t. And I was like, ‘Dang.’ I really saw everything that everyone saw in the video and I was just reacting to it and should have used a little more logic. It was more like I wanted people to do it, man, I just want to win.
“For me… everything I said I didn’t want him to do, I did too. I want to own that. As always, we must overcome the good and the bad. Right now I don’t think it’s that bad. I think it’s a great thing. Because chaos definitely creates diamonds. Pressure produces diamonds. I feel like this is about to be something that we’re going to recover from really well.
“We all make mistakes. This was one of my mistakes. You can never be too proud of not making mistakes, but it’s something I’m definitely going to learn from. And I know, for sure, that those guys, when I talk to them, they’ll understand where I’m coming from and why I assumed that based on AJ’s video, I know that we’re going to do well because those guys definitely want to. to win. That’s why I was frustrated. I’m going to share the frustration with AJ because he just wants to win. 1 (It hurts) a winner. “All of us just want to win for the city and we all made some mistakes in this one.”
On Monday night, Graham spoke during Brandon Graham’s weekly show on Chickie’s & Pete’s and criticized Brown for publicly expressing his frustration. After the win over the Panthers, Brown became frustrated and responded, “Pass” when asked what the offense needed to improve.
Graham said he made assumptions based on looking at media availability.
“The person who is complaining needs to be held accountable,” Graham said Monday night. “And I’m just being honest. He knows it. I don’t know the whole story, but I know 1 (Hurts) is trying and I mean, 11 (Brown) could be a little better in the way he responds to things.
“And they were friends before this, but it’s like, man, things have changed and I get it because life happens. But it’s the business side that we have to make sure we don’t let the personal get in the way of the business and that’s what we have to do better now because we know it’s a problem.”
Graham acknowledged Tuesday morning that he was guilty of the same thing he criticized Brown for.
The Eagles beat the Panthers 22-16 on Sunday, but after the game there were some pockets of frustration within the Eagles locker room due to an ineffective passing game. The Eagles had a total of 83 net passing yards in a close victory.
Brown wasn’t the only Eagles player to express frustration with the passing offense. But he was also seen banging his helmet on the bench after a three-pointer during the game.
The Eagles are 11-2 and have won nine straight games, so it seems unusual to have this kind of drama swirling around the team. It seems especially unusual that it would be driven by the most senior player on the team. Graham will be out for the rest of the season after suffering a triceps injury a few weeks ago, but he remains one of the team’s emotional leaders.
“Any time you make a mistake, you learn from it,” Graham said Tuesday morning. “I think he will learn from the mistake of giving that. For me I already know, this is my time a year. You all made me respond emotionally because I was so passionate about not screwing things up and I took it. I was wrong because I should have been talking to my guys anyway and working it out. I knew AJ would have approached it the same way he would have approached this.
“But I know, man, these guys this year, they’re not the guys from last year. I think it’s simply the passion of wanting to win. I will own that, I will own what I said yesterday. But I know it was my fault because I should have at least called them first before making a comment about it. I know for me, assumptions definitely make you look dumb. Now, I just want to do right by some of the mistakes I made.”
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