00:00Did you look at A.J. Brown as a distressed asset?
00:03Because you could look at it either way.
00:04How did you look at him?
00:05Slightly.
00:06Slightly distressed asset, given what happened to him last year,
00:09given his level of dissatisfaction with the offense.
00:12And look, the right knee is a real thing.
00:14I don't want people to freak out if he's taking Veterans Days in November and December.
00:20This is a guy who had to have his right knee drained twice a week,
00:24dating back to, I think, 2024.
00:26This is still a problem.
00:27So you get with a guy like Vrabel who knows his history,
00:31who knows how to manage him, and I think that's going to be okay.
00:34But ultimately, to answer your question,
00:36I think he was a little bit of a distressed asset,
00:38at least at this point in his career.
00:39It's funny because you hear two things from the Philadelphia media.
00:44One, that he was very well-liked in the locker room,
00:48that he's like a good guy, and that he was well-liked in the locker room,
00:51which seems to be pretty much what everyone's saying.
00:54But he also is a guy that would get on Instagram after games,
01:02but before the team had even let the media in the locker room and complain.
01:06He, according to some in the Philadelphia media,
01:10quit on the team during games.
01:13What are you getting personality-wise from A.J. Brown?
01:16Now, just real quickly, when Philadelphia traded for him,
01:20A.J. Brown was otherworldly, you know, in the new atmosphere.
01:25So you would think that he's highly motivated coming into New England
01:29and being back with Vrabel.
01:30But what are you getting personality-wise with him?
01:34There's a few different things at play there, Fred.
01:36I think, first of all, his level of dissatisfaction with the offense last year
01:39can be traced back to a few different things.
01:42The offensive coordinator that the Eagles had last year,
01:44no one really liked him.
01:45They've since switched out offensive coordinators.
01:48The targets were the kind of targets that he was getting.
01:51It wasn't necessarily the underneath.
01:54He's not an underneath-and-intermediate wide receiver.
01:56He's a home-run hitter.
01:57And I think that he was a little bit upset
01:59that he wasn't getting more chances deep.
02:00I think that's remedied this year by the fact that, you know,
02:03he's going to be walking into a locker room
02:05with the best deep ball throw in the National Football League.
02:07And again, I think the knee kind of plays a role in all of this
02:11and maybe the level of dissatisfaction he had, maybe the way he was handled.
02:14Look, he's getting with a coach, again, that he knows and he's comfortable with.
02:19I think if this was a different receiver,
02:21a guy who didn't have the sort of relationship with Vrabel that Brown does,
02:25I would be a little more concerned.
02:27But I think when you look at that background there, he's a Vrabel guy.
02:31You know, you add him to a list of guys like Landry and Spillane
02:34and Jack Gibbons last year, guys who understand the coach,
02:38you know, the coach understands them.
02:40I think that's a great place to start when you're talking about his career in New England.
02:44Okay.
02:45Okay.
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