Eagles still have a Super Team offense even without AJ Brown

The Eagles offense is going to be just fine without AJ Brown, and if you need a reason beyond the depth chart, start with this: the circus left town with him.

Let me be honest up front, because that’s the only way this argument holds. The Eagles will miss Brown. He turns 29 this month, the knees got cranky, and the attitude curdled into a weekly storyline, but he’s a good receiver, good enough that there were stretches last year where you remembered exactly why. Pretending otherwise would be a lie, and I’m a lot of things, but I’m not that.

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Missing a guy and needing him are two different things. The Eagles do not need Brown, especially now.

The Eagles offense is still loaded

Start at quarterback, where there’s a Super Bowl MVP who keeps getting discussed like he’s a problem to solve. Behind him, DeVonta Smith finally steps out of the WR1B role he’s been buried in for four years, a three-time 1,000-yard receiver who was the second option and produced like a first one anyway. Next to him, a first-round rookie at WR2 and a WR3 fight between Dontayvion Wicks and Hollywood Brown that half the league would mug you for.

The tight end room has a guy sitting fifth in receiving yards at the position over the last seven years, plus a rookie they like behind him. The backfield has a superstar and a backup who went 5.9 a carry last season. The offensive line, upright, has three Pro Bowlers and an All-Pro and stacks up with anyone alive.

And there’s a new play-caller. I’ll be straight, he’s never called a game, so the “upgrade” is a bet, not a fact. But look at the bar. The Eagles offense averaged 21.1 points, 311 total yards, 194 passing and 117 rushing per game in 2025. With that much talent, that’s genuinely embarrassing. You don’t need a genius to beat 21.1 a game. You need a pulse.

Give this group a real plan and there’s no reason it can’t push 30 points, 350+ total yards, 225 through the air and 150 on the ground. That’s top-five.

Good. Now everyone can focus.

The noise ran for months. The trade rumors going back to the deadline. The cryptic posts. The media scrums turned into theater during winning streaks. The midseason sit-down with ownership where he agreed to keep the complaints off the timeline. The stretch where he stopped talking to reporters at all. None of it was about football, and all of it was about one guy.

Gone.

Whatever you made of the talent, the soap opera is what quietly rots a season from the inside. Now the room gets to do the thing the drama never allowed. Focus on the rookie. On the new scheme. On a quarterback who’s spent two years getting blamed when his team wins and keeps winning anyway.

Stop counting what walked out the door. Count what’s still in the building. It’s a lot.