Micah Parsons didn’t need inside information on this one — 22 rushing yards on 18 carries, three points in a second half with the ball for almost 25 minutes, a 57-yard field goal beating them with the clock at zero.
That was Sunday’s loss in London, a 19-17 defeat to the Jacksonville Jaguars that dropped the Philadelphia Eagles to 2-3. It’s the first time below .500 since 2021, Week 13 of Nick Sirianni’s rookie year, and it ends a four-season run of finishing at .500 or better. Missing Saquon Barkley, DeVonta Smith, a retired right tackle and a traded center, Philadelphia’s offense now ranks 30th in the NFL in total yards per game and 30th in passing yards per game.
A year ago, it was AJ Brown standing in that same building describing that same failure. After an October 2025 loss, with Philadelphia still 4-2, Brown told reporters the issue was self-inflicted wounds — plays that are survivable on first down and, in his words, “hard to recover” on third. Nobody wanted to hear a star receiver describe his own offense’s problem as execution instead of scheme, or quarterback play, or him.
By April, that frustration had curdled into fan blame, especially after the Eagles drafted receiver Makai Lemon in the second round — widely read as the start of a plan to replace a receiver whose production had slipped to 78 catches, 1,003 yards and seven touchdowns the year before. Parsons, still wearing a Dallas uniform at the time, posted on X that “It’s amusing how many Eagles fans believe Aj Brown is the problem!” Fans mistook a receiver’s honesty for an attitude.
I have no use for the Cowboys, but Parsons was right then too.
Two months later, Philadelphia traded Brown to the New England Patriots for a 2028 first-round pick and a 2027 fifth, reuniting him with head coach Mike Vrabel, who’d coached him in Tennessee. The Eagles got draft capital. They also got rid of the only person in the building willing to say what was actually broken.
Parsons said as much this week, reacting to Philadelphia’s record with Brown’s name attached directly.
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/2110431577536860412
He isn’t playing right now. A torn ACL and meniscus have him rehabbing in Green Bay, watching Green Bay’s own losing streak without him pile up from the sideline instead of adding to a box score of his own, which makes the read no less accurate.
Strip away the gloating and this is an indictment of a front office: the Eagles traded away the guy who called it, and the problem got worse without him. That’s a harder thing to swallow than an old teammate’s tweet.
AJ Brown was right, and Philadelphia proved it by getting worse.
