LANDOVER, Md. -- For all the reverberations from the substance of some of his recent words, A.J. Brown rarely raises his voice above a whisper when he's speaking.
Sunday was the same, even if everything for the Philadelphia Eagles wasn't. They had tried with all their might to cost themselves a victory here against the Washington Commanders, to end their 10-game winning streak and put off clinching the NFC East championship, and they had succeeded. Dropped passes, silly penalties, confusion on defense, a key player ejected for taunting an opponent: The Eagles deserved to go down, and they did, 36-33, and Brown seemed reluctant to pierce the silence of a losing locker room as he balanced the outcome's short- and long-term implications.
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