While the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl following the 2024 season, in historical terms — in terms of a whole era — they still may have left something on the table.
Let us explain.
The Eagles made it to the Super Bowl following the 2022 season as well, where they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in a thrilling game. In 2023, they started the season 10-1 before stumbling to an inexplicable, 11-6 finish and lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Wild Card Round.
The reasons for that fall off have never truly sussed out, but it ended with both offensive coordinator Brian Johnson and defensive coordinator Sean Desai given their walking papers. Another theory was that NFL All-Pro wide receiver A.J. Brown had become a locker room cancer and was behind the team unraveling, but because former Eagles center and future Pro Football Hall of Famer Jason Kelce so vehemently said Brown wasn’t to blame — and because everyone loves Kelce so much — that it kind of killed that storyline.
Kelce being a good teammate doesn’t mean we should believe him. In this case, at least.
Brown has spent the last 2 years showing why it may have actually been him who was the problem as he’s repeatedly complained to the media or passively aggressively posted on social media about not getting the ball enough. And he’s done all that as the Eagles continued to win games at an incredible rate.
So, in short, playing with Brown seems like it sucks. And while the Eagles are stuck with him the rest of the year as they try and win consecutive Super Bowls, there is a pretty clear cut path to getting rid of him after this year.
Brilliant Trade Proposal From NFL Insider
The Ringer’s Sheil Kapadia is one of the hardest working guys or gals in the NFL media game right now. He not only hosts The Ringer NFL Show but also hosts the Philly Special podcast for The Ringer.
It was Kapadia who thought up a brilliant way to finally get Brown out of Philadelphia, proposing a trade that brings Cleveland Browns edge rusher and 2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett to the Eagles.
“(The Browns) have to trade Myles Garrett and I believe they are going to trade Myles Garrett after this season,” Kapadia said on November 6. ” … They have no chance to win next season. I’m calling my shot. Myles Garrett to the Eagles for 2 firsts and (quarterback) Tanner McKee .. or what if I throw in A.J. Brown? Tanner McKee, A.J. Brown, a first and a second.”
It’s the kind of trade NFL fans and pundits dream about in terms of just sheer audacity, and the money part of it shouldn’t be prohibitive. Brown has a fairly standard contract for a Top 5 wide receiver — he signed a 3-year, $96 million contract extension before last season that would keep him in Cleveland through 2029, when he’s 32 years old.
Garrett signed a 4-year, $160 million contract extension in March that briefly made him the NFL’s highest paid defensive player and would keep him with the Eagles through 2030.
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