PHILADELPHIA – Several Titans wanted to pretend like A.J. Brown was just another receiver lighting them up, same as Stefon Diggs, Mack Hollins, Dyami Brown and Tee Higgins.

He’s not.

A.J. Brown

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Had Jon Robinson found a way to massage things and pay Brown the way his counterparts in San Francisco, Seattle and Washington did with their top-flight receivers Deebo Samuel, D.K. Metcalf and Terry McLaurin – players Brown is better than – perhaps the Titans would have done the blowing out at Lincoln Financial Field.

Instead, it was 35-10 Eagles as they moved to 11-1 and sent the Titans home 7-5, still in good playoff berth shape, but not in good win-a-game there shape.

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