Eagles’ WR A.J. Brown tweets Denny Carter’s ‘typical WR tweet’: ‘The enemy speaks kindly & holds a knife.’

Back in August 2017, NFL writer and podcaster Denny Carter had quite the observation about the way NFL players at different positions tend to tweet. Carter started that with thoughts on NFL wide receivers tweeting cryptically, and then spelled out a typical tweet for each position. That included “WR tweet: the enemy speaks kindly & holds a knife”:

That tweet’s been a good subject of mirth for much of the football world for the last five and a half years. And now, NFL players are starting to fulfill it. On Sunday night, Philadelphia Eagles’ wide receiver A.J. Brown (seen above speaking to media at Super Bowl Opening Night on Feb. 6) not only literally tweeted “the enemy speaks kindly & holds a knife,” he pinned it to his profile:

This led to a lot of discussion of Carter’s original tweet, including jokes that his account was just a burner for Brown:

https://twitter.com/AnalyticsPlant/status/1630205212383387650

Meanwhile, Carter himself had one simple reaction:

It’s not particularly clear what caused Brown to tweet “the enemy speaks kindly & holds a knife.” He signed a four-year, $100 million contract extension that runs through the 2026 season last spring, so it doesn’t appear to be about a contract issue. It’s quite possible he just stumbled across Carter’s old tweet some way and decided it would be funny to recreate it. At any rate, this is a better way for Brown to use Twitter than his tweeted-and-deleted rant Friday night claiming humanity hasn’t actually gone to the moon:

AJ Brown vs The Moon is football’s most underrated rivalry pic.twitter.com/T1C5YH14HN

— Philly’s Phinest Beercan (@BeercanBrain) February 25, 2023

Brown said last September he took the Twitter app off his phone because he was tired of receiving praise for how he played. It’s unclear if he’s added it back or is just tweeting from other devices. (He did cause a Twitter stir in November with his comments on the Tennessee Titans, his former team.) But it certainly was something to see him execute the “typical WR tweet.”

[Denny Carter and A.J. Brown on Twitter; photo from Joe Rondone/The Arizona Republic, via USA Today Sports]