For the first 58 minutes and nine seconds of Thursday night’s opener, not a single pass was thrown in receiver A.J. Brown’s direction. He finished with one target, one catch, eight yards.

The limited production from the team’s No. 1 receiver becomes an obvious talking point as the Week 2 Super Bowl rematch with the Chiefs approaches.

“When you game plan, obviously the number one guy is going to be A.J., [receiver] DeVonta [Smith], [tight end] Dallas [Goedert],” Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo told reporters on Tuesday. “In the pass game, they’re going to get the targets. Going in, we had a fair share of things that were going to go to him as the primary, and sometimes games play out like that and that’s kind of how it was.

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