Key Points
- Hurts addressed the A.J. Brown trade publicly for the first time since it became official.
- He pointed to four years together: four playoff trips, two Super Bowls, one championship.
- On Brown's view that the two grew apart, Hurts said he can't challenge anyone's perspective.
- Brown was traded to the New England Patriots on June 1.
Jalen Hurts finally talked about it. Addressing the A.J. Brown trade for the first time since it became official, the Eagles quarterback kept it short, gracious, and pointed forward.
"You come into it and you have a sense of pride in how it began and definitely what we were able to accomplish," Hurts said. "Nothing can take that away. For the great things that we did, now it's time to focus on achieving great things with this new iteration of the team."
Four years, two Super Bowls
The partnership delivered. Brown was Hurts' top target for four seasons, a stretch that included four straight playoff appearances, two Super Bowl trips, and a championship. That is the resume Hurts chose to lead with rather than relitigate how it ended.
The drift
Asked about Brown's acknowledgment that the two are no longer as close as they once were — Brown has said there is "still a lot of love" between them — Hurts declined to push back. "I'm not in a place to challenge anyone's perspective on anything," he said. It is the safest answer available, and a deliberate one: no grievance aired, no narrative fed.
What's next
Brown is in New England after the June 1 trade, and Hurts now leads a receiving room without his top target of the last four years. The more telling test will be on the field, not at the podium. For now, the quarterback closed the chapter the way he opened his answer: with the wins, and then the turn forward.
Source: ESPN
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