Eagles' Graham: Comments on Hurts and Brown 'a mistake' - ESPN

PHILADELPHIA — Eagles veteran defensive end Brandon Graham told ESPN he took his comments about teammates Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown too far during a radio appearance Monday night.

Responding to Brown's criticism of the passing game following Sunday's narrow home win over the Carolina Panthers, Graham emphasized the importance of hashing things out internally rather than through the media during his weekly radio show on 94 WIP. That's when he suggested Hurts and Brown aren't tight the way they once were.

«The person that's complaining needs to be accountable,» Graham said. «I don't know the whole story, but I know that [Hurts] is trying and [Brown] could be a little better with how he responds to things. They were friends before this, but things have changed, and I understand that because life happens. But it's the business side, that we have to make sure the personal doesn't get in the way of the business.»

Graham was reacting to Brown's terse postgame comments, in which Brown said «passing» was what the offense needs to improve on and that «there's not too much conversation» between he and Hurts during the game to troubleshoot when the pass game isn't fully clicking.

«I made a mistake and I assumed that it was something that it wasn't,» Graham told ESPN. «I just want to win so bad that I don't just want to use the media when we need to talk about something and we can fix the problem ourselves. I didn't add to it in a good light, so that's my bad.

»I just assumed, and it made me out to look even worse because I had it all wrong and now people are going to run with that part. I really just want to win, man, and I want brothers to be able to just hash it out."

Graham added that he would apologize to both Hurts and Brown