Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni knows this week is bigger than most.

Eagles' star wide receiver A.J. Brown is playing his old friends in the Tennessee Titans, and Sirianni understands emotions will run high. Those emotions can't distract from the Eagles' mission — win. Sirianni knows that, so he offered some encouragement to Philadelphia's superstar.

“I think the constant reminder is, 'Hey, this game is big to us because it's our next one,” Sirianni said. “This game is big to us because we don't want to let each other down. You can't ride the waves of the season.

"He doesn't have to do any more than just go out there and be himself," added the coach. "He doesn't have to press. He just has to go out there and do his job to the best of his ability with attention to detail.”

Things went south with Brown and the Titans after Tennessee, a run-first team, balked at giving him the deal that Philadelphia happily coughed up to the tune of $100 million. With the contract pressure and the emotions, Brown must produce to validate the Eagles making the trade for him in the summer.

“We don't want to let each other down, and so you got to prep for every game the same," said Siriani, "but naturally, human nature will take over, and that's my job as a coach to make sure that he knows he doesn't have to do anything more than just be A.J. Brown.

“That's why he's here. That's why we traded for him, that's why we paid him, because he's a phenomenal player. Just go be yourself. You don't have to do anything special because you're special enough to go out there and play.”

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