Ross Tucker: 'Brandon Graham did Eagles a huge favor'
Ross Tucker believes Brandon Graham's comments on Monday's 94WIP Brandon Graham Show about the relationship between Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown will ultimately be a good thing for the Philadelphia Eagles.
"In a weird way, I feel like Brandon Graham did this team, for this year, a huge favor," Tucker told Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie on Wednesday's 94WIP Morning Show.
"After what BG said here on WIP, I now think in 23 minutes when the Eagles have their first team meeting of the week in preparation for the Steelers, probably eight o'clock on a Wednesday. Sirianni has to address this. He has to talk about it. My guess is that Brandon Graham would get up in front of the team and apologize and say he shouldn't have said what he said. I'd like to think at that point that A.J. Brown would say something—A.J. Brown and/or Hurts. In other words guys, it's gotten to another level now where it has to be addressed. And now I think it will either like galvanize the team, something that they talk about it. Like any fight you have with a family member or loved one, move on from, be stronger as a result. That's one option, that's the option I'm hopeful for...It could go the other way. It could be bad. There could be some issues here...I don't think so. I think what BG did forces them to address it in a meaningful way so that everyone can move on afterwards."
Brown issued a one-word response to the media—"passing"—following Sunday's win over the Panthers, when asked what the Eagles need to fix. Brown had just four targets in a game where Hurts threw for just 108 yards.
"I know 1 is trying and 11 could be a little better with how he responds to things," Graham said on Monday. "They were friends before this, but things have changed. I understand that because life happens."
Graham apologized on Tuesday's 94WIP Morning Show for his comments.
"I made the assumption," Graham said on Tuesday's 94WIP Morning Show. "I didn't know all the details and I still don't…Everything that I said, I didn't want [Brown] to do, I did too [airing it out publicly to the media]. All of us just want to win."
The 11-2 Eagles have won nine in a row and appear poised for their second Super Bowl run in three years, but for the second straight season, locker room issues—largely surrounding Brown—have become a vocal point at the end of the regular season.
