Eagles' Nick Sirianni, AJ Brown scream at each other on sideline during Wild Card Round vs 49ers

Tension is ever precocious during the NFL playoffs, but it spilled implicit betwixt caput manager and prima wide receiver connected Sunday day successful Philadelphia.

Eagles caput manager Nick Sirianni and receiver A.J. Brown were spotted connected the FOX broadcast going face-to-face with each different connected the sideline, to the constituent wherever squad main information serviceman "Big Dom" DiSandro had to get successful the mediate and interruption it up.

Sirianni was seen sprinting down his sideline astatine Lincoln Financial Field to outcry astatine Brown to get disconnected the field, but the seasoned receiver intelligibly didn’t similar what his caput manager was saying and they got into it.

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Head manager Nick Sirianni of the Philadelphia Eagles reacts aft a play cisco 49ers during the 2nd 4th successful the NFC Wild Card Playoff crippled astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected Jan. 11, 2026 successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

It appeared Sirianni was trying to archer Brown to get disconnected the tract to debar a too-many-men-on-the-field penalty, wherever near tackle Jordan Mailata was besides adjacent to forcing laundry to deed the grass.

Words were exchanged, though it’s chartless precisely what was said. Brown continued to jaw astatine Sirianni, who was being directed distant from his receiver by a unit member.

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Everything cooled down afterward, with Sirianni adjacent telling FOX’s Erin Andrews that’s conscionable the mode they are unneurotic sometimes.

Given Brown’s contention each season, though, it’s hard for fans not to speculate astir the situation.

Head manager Nick Sirianni of the Philadelphia Eagles looks connected earlier the NFC Wild Card Playoff crippled against the San Francisco 49ers astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected Jan. 11, 2026 successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Elsa/Getty Images)

Despite the Eagles’ success, winning the NFC East and earning the No. 3 effect successful the playoffs, Brown’s accumulation was a nationalist taxable passim the regular play arsenic the Eagles struggled to get things going. 

Brown yet continued his 1,000-yard receiving streak (1,003) with his 3rd consecutive seven-touchdown campaign.

But helium made comments astatine aggregate points during the season, seemingly voicing his vexation with the offense. Offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo besides came nether occurrence from the Eagles’ instrumentality base, arsenic the reigning Super Bowl champions weren’t performing arsenic expected.

A.J. Brown of the Philadelphia Eagles warms up anterior to a crippled the NFC Wild Card Playoff crippled against the San Francisco 49ers astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected Jan. 11, 2026 successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

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Brown finished the archetypal fractional of this Wild Card Round contention with 3 catches for 25 yards.

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