While fans may not love Brown’s petulance, the Eagles are clearly not using their ultra-talented wide receiver to his full capabilities, something for which former league MVP Cam Newton recently put the team on blast.<\/p>\n
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Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver AJ. Brown (11) reacts against the Los Angeles Rams.\u00a9 Eric Hartline-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
“The truth is, the play selection of how you’re using A.J. Brown is bland,” said Newton on ESPN’s “First Take.”<\/a> “It is simple. It’s like, yo, put him in motion. Get him out of just this typical X receiver isolation. … We all know that Jalen Hurts is capable, but Jalen Hurts is never asked to consistently win games with his arm.”<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Newton, like Jalen Hurts, was a mobile quarterback who was able to win games with his legs, but it’s safe to say that if the former Carolina Panthers star had gotten a chance to play with a receiver as talented as Brown, he would have found a way to get him the ball more often than what Philadelphia is doing.<\/p>\n Instead, Hurts didn’t complete a single pass in the second half of the team’s win over Tampa Bay over the weekend, and Philadelphia’s offense went stagnant as a result, having to rely on the team’s defense to hold on for the win down the stretch.<\/p>\n However, one thing that can’t be argued is that the Eagles have been winning more consistently than any team over the last year-plus, so it’s unlikely they’ll be changing things too drastically anytime soon.<\/p>\n The Eagles (4-0) host the Broncos (2-2) at 1 p.m. ET Sunday on CBS.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Related: Eagles Announce Jalen Carter News Before Broncos Game<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Oct 3, 2025, where it first appeared in the NFL<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers may receive compensation for some links to products and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[12478,13277,14969,49,12653,48,1744,12483,1522,1749,514,1747,82,28240,1733,19055,31568],"class_list":["post-188423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-a-j-brown","tag-broncos","tag-brown","tag-ca","tag-cam-newton","tag-canada","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-jalen-hurts","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-the-eagles","tag-wide-receiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}