> “Here’s my sense of what’s going on — I think Brown’s frustrations stem from all of the above: the coaching staff’s inability to scheme up answers and adjusts, Hurts’ style of play, and Brown’s own self-inflictions. It can almost be never just one thing. Not in the NFL. Not when there are some many variables in any given play, 11 players on offense, the scheme, the play-call, the defense, on and on.
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> But it can be one thing more than the other.
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> I’m going a little off script here because this is a podcast and not a newspaper.
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> **Where do I think Brown’s main grievance lies?**
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> **I think it’s how Hurts plays quarterback.**
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> Hurts has it tougher than anyone in that building, save for maybe Sirianni. He plays the most difficult position in all of team sports, not to mention the most scrutinized. He has to please so many, feed so many, and do it all with a straight face, and then in a fanatical sports-obsessed sports town.
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> So, I’m not here to pile on. He is a great quarterback who has been to two Super Bowls, won one, and been the \[Super Bowl\] MVP.
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> But the way Hurts plays isn’t what you’d call “receiver friendly.” And partly because of that, the Eagles employ a run-based offense that can take away from the pass game.
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> I wonder if Brown sees that as standing in his way to becoming the best version of himself.
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> Is there enough time for it to be rectified? Absolutely. The Eagles have quite the runway at 7-2. But if they want to repeat as champions … everyone — from the coach, to the coordinator, to the quarterback, and, yes, to the receiver — have to come together and clean up — what did Brown call it again? — a “shitshow.”