Brandon Graham attempts to clarify comments on Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown, but the damage is already done

Eagles DE Brandon Graham put his foot in his mouth on WIP when talking about his QB1 and WR1’s relationship. After the show, he immediately backtracked the comments because, while they came from the right place, he knew he shouldn’t have said what he said, at least not with the wording he used.

Tim McManus spoke to Brandon Graham about his comments about Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown, which he attempted to clarify:

I get what he means here, and I’ll always be a BG fan, but this was a crucial misstep. Nobody in the media is going to care about this. At best, it’ll be a footnote at the end of an ESPN segment where they spent 20 minutes yelling about Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown.

BG can’t talk about accountability and push for keeping things in-house, then turn around and air his perspective in the media. Especially not when he hands outlets like WIP and the rest of the press something juicy to chew on. Without the full context, it comes off like he’s saying the two aren’t on good terms because the passing game isn’t working.

Regardless of what he intended, this was a poor move by BG. I get that he was trying to explain things and defend his teammates, but it ended up doing the opposite. Context or not, it didn’t look great.

AJ Brown nailed it: the passing game needs to be more efficient. Hurts has some reads to improve, and the playcalling could use some fine-tuning.

Could BG have addressed this with Hurts directly? Sure. But if he’d said, “That’s something we’ll talk about internally,” he’d have been roasted for being vague, and the media would’ve just found a way to spin it into a story about the passing game anyway.

At the end of the day, context is important, but in the media, a controversial soundbite is what rules the day. And as Kanye put it, “What’s a king to a god?” The answer: nothing.

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