AJ Brown aims dig at Jalen Hurts as Phoebe Schecter urges Super Bowl hopefuls to be more ‘selfless’

“AJ Brown coming out and saying it’s the passing that’s the issue, you’re fully looking at your quarterback and throwing him under the bus,” Schecter said of the three-time Pro Bowler’s comments.

“And then Brandon Graham coming in and talking to the fact they’re not getting on to the same level – only to then retract his statement.

“This is what we saw from the Eagles at the end of last year, but things were going badly for them at that point… they were losing. This is not what you do when you’re a winning team.

“I get that receivers want to be touching the ball as much as possible but if you’re going to be a team that are going to make the Super Bowl, there cannot be an ‘I’ in team in that situation. You have got to be selfless.

“Last year, I get it was a different story: he was getting a lot of touches, as he was when he was with the [Tennessee] Titans – he was their only weapon, basically.

“But surely, if you’re winning, that’s good for everybody.”

Also contributing to Brown’s frustrations perhaps is the addition of star running back Saquon Barkley in the offseason.

The former New York Giants back leads the NFL in rushing with 1,623 yards, 216 yards ahead of the Baltimore Ravens’ Derrick Henry, and is on pace to break Eric Dickerson’s 40-year single-season rushing record (2,105 in 1984) – needing 483 more yards over the final four games of the season.

Barkley will continue his record-breaking bid when the Eagles go in pursuit of a 10th-straight win as they host the similarly in-form 10-3 Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday.