Nick Foles is a beloved figure in Philly. He led the team to its first Super Bowl win. And he hardly has a reputation for being a guy who says controversial things for the sake of attention.<\/p>\n
As to the question of the offseason for the Eagles \u2014 will they trade receiver A.J. Brown? \u2014 Foles has some information. He recently shared it with Jeff Skversky of Fox29 in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have a first-year coordinator in Sean Mannion,\u201d Foles said. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to deal with, you know, what they dealt with last year with A.J. Now, A.J. had merit looking back. Like, why was he frustrated? Well, it was the concepts of the offense and how it was [run] with Kevin Patullo. Looking back, that\u2019s maybe what the frustration was. Was it with Jalen Hurts? I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not in the facility. No idea. But because of those things and different people I know around the league that know A.J. a little bit . . .what I\u2019ve gathered is, [he] wants to be traded<\/a>, but I also think like he wants to be traded to specific places. <\/p>\n \u201cI think New England would make a lot of sense because of his history [with coach Mike] Vrabel. I think that\u2019s obvious, right? And I think he even said he grew up a Patriots fan, if I\u2019m correct. So that would be like two-fold situation. But really because [G.M. Howie Roseman\u2019s] not shutting it down. That\u2019s a big thing. And he\u2019s gonna have a lot of strategy behind it. He\u2019s gonna get something he wants by \u2014 I think it\u2019s going to come to a point where he realized last year was very difficult. This is Howie. And he doesn\u2019t want to do that again with a first-year coordinator. If A.J. Brown\u2019s not happy, which seems like he\u2019s not super happy in Philly, but he\u2019s got to give the lip service to say he is. They\u2019re gonna try to find a way to hopefully make it right for him and make it right for the Eagles. And I\u2019d imagine that Howie really respects A.J. And hopefully A.J. respects Howie to where they try to do right by each other and figure out a way that where A.J.’s happy and the Eagles are happy sort of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Foles added that, a couple of weeks ago, he thought there was an 80-percent chance Brown would not be traded. Foles said he\u2019s not at \u201c50-50″ as to a trade occurring. Based on what Foles said after that, it sounds as if he\u2019s at least at 51-49: \u201cI do think he\u2019ll get traded before the start of the season. Not sure when. I do think the New England Patriots make a lot of sense.\u201d<\/p>\n June 1 continues to be the key date. After June 1, the Eagles would not take a cap acceleration in 2026; any dead money for 2027 and beyond would hit the salary cap in 2027.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s possible that the Eagles already have a wink-nod deal in place with a specific team, perhaps the Patriots, after June 1. If so, there\u2019s no reason for either side to blurt it out before the draft. The Eagles should let other teams think they may not be thinking about taking a receiver with any of their various picks, and the Patriots should let other teams think they could.<\/p>\n After the draft, it can then be announced that, come June 2, Brown will be a Patriot. Pending a physical, as we learned last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Foles is a beloved figure in Philly. He led the team to its first Super Bowl win.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-590212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}