PHILADELPHIA — Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley confirmed that they, along with A.J. Brown, had a lengthy discussion this week amid the Eagles’ offensive struggles.

Barkley downplayed any drama around the meeting. The star running back emphasized it wasn’t a full-blown “players-only meeting,” instead describing it as a “good thing.”

“The focus was all about the team,” Barkley said Tuesday at the NovaCare Complex. “When you hear ‘players-only meetings,’ all hell is breaking loose. It wasn’t that at all. But we’re all teammates. We’re all friends. We were just having a conversation.”

Hurts added: “It was just talking about the collective, about us taking ownership for what we can, and talking about how we move forward as a team so we can continue to find ways to win games.”

The PhillyVoice’s Jimmy Kempski reported on Monday night that Hurts, Barkley and Brown met among themselves for two hours to discuss the state of the Eagles’ offense. Kempski described it as a “long, positive conversation” between three of the Eagles’ biggest stars.

The Eagles have endured some offensive hardships to say the least so far this season.

Brown has 19 catches for 194 yards, leading the three-time All-Pro receiver to be vocal about his frustrations. Barkley, the reigning NFL Offensive Player of the Year, has been bottled up or not given the ball enough. Barkley has only 267 rushing yards on 83 carries (3.2 yards per attempt) on the season and logged just six carries in Sunday’s loss to Denver.

Overall, Hurts and first-year play-caller Kevin Patullo have led an offense that has been hit or miss. The Eagles are averaging 261.6 yards per game, third-worst in the NFL. The highs (second half vs. the Rams) have been high. The lows (second half vs. Denver) have been low.

But Barkley is confident the Eagles’ offense will kick into high gear — and not strictly because of the conversation he had with Hurts and Brown.

“I don’t think it’s that conversation. I think it’s the work that we put in,” Barkley said. “Sometimes it just doesn’t hit right away. I know it hasn’t shown in a consistent way throughout the first five games. But there’s been sparks. There have been halves. … We just got to continue to have more halves playing at a high level. I don’t think it’s just our conversation. It’s the mindset of this team and this offense and how we work and what we believe we can be.”

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