A.J. Brown on Jalen Hurts: Nothing happened, you just drift away sometimes

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Wide receiver A.J. Brown's final season with the Eagles featured a lot of talk about his dissatisfaction with the team's offense and the nature of his relationship with quarterback Jalen Hurts. Brown weighed in on the latter topic during an interview with Maria Taylor after Monday's long-awaited trade to the Patriots. Brown said he doesn't understand why there was so much attention paid to his relationship with Hurts, but acknowledged that the two men are "not as close as we once were" by the end of their final season together. The receiver insisted "that didn't stop anything" the team was trying to do on the field and said there was no particular incident that led to the change. "Nothing happened, people just grow apart ," Brown said. "Nothing happened between me and him, or our families, wives, anything. Nothing like that ever happened. Life happens and you just look up sometimes and you just you find yourself drifting away and that's fine. And I think both parties accepted that." Brown said he wants Hurts to do well and "accomplish everything his heart desires," but he'll no longer have a hand in helping Hurts or the Eagles reach any of their goals.