Nick Sirianni passionately defended Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown, who has been criticized by some for reading Inner Excellence on the bench during Sunday's playoff win over the Packers.
"I'm definitely OK with it," Sirianni said on Tuesday's 94WIP Morning Show with Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie. "The crazy thing is, he's been reading this book on the sideline for a long time. It just so happened a camera saw it this week. "Some guys pray in between, some guys mediate in between. A.J. reads in between. Whatever these guys need to do to put their mind in a place where they can play with great detail and great effort, I fully encourage them to do that. I love A.J. He's such a great teammate. I saw Jahan Dotson said something defending A.J. and I thought that was awesome too. Another example of our teammates defending each other.
"We don't do any research and we jump to a conclusion of, 'Oh he must be disgruntled.' That to me is lazy. Everyone needs to figure out why he's doing it before they jump to judgement on the man. Because the man, A.J. Brown is a great, great, great person. The man A.J. Brown is the best receiver—and I'll say it without hesitation—the best receiver that this city has ever seen...It's hard for me to watch when people are getting on him without doing the proper research of who the man is and what he's doing in the first place."