Eagles WR A.J. Brown: 'All this 17-0 s--- is over with'

Star wide receiver A.J. Brown doesn't seem crushed that the Philadelphia Eagles have lost their first game of the 2022 season. 

"All this 17-0 s— is over with," Brown said while speaking with reporters Tuesday coming off Monday's 32-21 defeat at the hands of the Washington Commanders that dropped the Eagles to 8-1, as shared by Josh Alper of Pro Football Talk. "Now we’re going to wake up, and how are you going to respond? ... Sometimes you get hit in the mouth. How do you respond? It comes with it. ... We get back up and start fighting back."

After the Eagles improved to 8-0 back on the night of Nov. 3, Brown insisted he and his teammates were "not stuck on a number" and were merely taking every game one at a time. Such comments didn't stop ESPN's Jordan Reid and Tim McManus, among many others, from offering multiple reasons as recently as this past Friday for why the Eagles could become the first team in the 17-regular-season-game era to enter a postseason tournament with a perfect record. 

On Nov. 4, Pro Football Talk's Josh Alper noted that "none of the last 10 teams to open a season 8-0 have won the Super Bowl." The Eagles have other things to worry about ahead of Thanksgiving Day, as they now lead the second-place New York Giants in the NFC East standings by only a single game. 

Philadelphia plays at a 4-5-1 Indianapolis Colts side eager to prove doubters wrong this coming Sunday.