Jason Kelce didn’t hold back on the latest episode of New Heights, weighing in on the Eagles’ trade of A.J. Brown and recounting an only-in-Philadelphia moment from his charity golf outing, writes Becca O’Reilly for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The trade itself, Kelce said, came as no surprise. After a season clouded by speculation, frustration, and offensive struggles, the decision to send Brown to the New England Patriots felt almost inevitable.
Still, Brown had been one of the team’s top playmakers over the past four seasons, and Kelce was careful not to pin the offense’s troubles on him.
“A.J. Brown was not the reason the Eagles offense was not successful this year,” Kelce said. “He’s a very good football player.”
Instead, Kelce pointed to a bigger problem: an offense that had “grown stale” and dropped sharply in production from 2024 to 2025.
He sees the trade less as a loss than as a reset, and he’s optimistic about the Eagles’ next chapter under new offensive coordinator Sean Mannion.
As for Brown, Kelce said he’s eager to watch what the receiver can do in New England alongside Drake Maye and Josh McDaniels.
Then there was the lighter side of the episode.
The podcast also turned to the third annual (Be)Philly Foundation golf outing at Rolling Green Golf Club in Springfield, where things took a turn straight out of a Philadelphia fever dream: a prank exploding golf ball, struck by Kylie Kelce, knocked down Philly Santa, prompting Jason to rush over and jokingly perform CPR.
The Philadelphia Inquirer breaks down everything Kelce said about Brown’s exit, the offense’s collapse, and the golf outing mishap that turned Philly Santa into a CPR patient.
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