Miss him yet?

The moment Antonio Brown found out that he was released by The @Raiders. pic.twitter.com/gsMOQMYGIE

— Rich Eisen Show (@RichEisenShow) September 7, 2019

Wallace108 wrote:

I'm really trying not to buy into the conspiracy theories, but the quickness with which the Patriots** deal got done is crazy. Hell, it takes me longer to decide what I want from a restaurant menu.

Hawaii 5-0 wrote:

SteelersYak wrote:

I really think he cranked up the Looney Tunes to get what he wanted (onto a winning team) and now he will fall into line. Then he is lauded for changing his life (when most of it was an act anyways) and the Patriots** organization gets credit for fixing a bad boy.

Hawaii 5-0 wrote:

Don’t blame Antonio Brown for putting himself first. No one else was going to.

By Sally Jenkins
September 10

The NFL player who puts his self-interest first is always labeled a little crazy. Why is that? Whenever a man bucks the ideology of team fealty, he’s painted as an unpredictable danger and a threat to the entire city’s infrastructure. Antonio Brown was the most reliably great wide receiver in the league for six years, but suddenly, because he exercised some canny self-determination and busted himself out of a lousy situation, everyone wants to know if this selfish lunatic can sublimate his ungovernable personality. That, or they think he somehow played them.

It’s never the degenerate league owner, or the coach whose hoarse voice holds the rattling of a thousand bourbon-soaked ice cubes, who is supposed to show some loyalty and discretion. It’s only the player. In this case, Brown wrested his fate into his own hands, outwitted all of those who would have shackled him to bad organizations and outmaneuvered all of the NFL rules that are about hobbling player movement in the marketplace by treating players like third-graders in need of a hall pass, to land with the New England Patriots**. Good for him.

Brown is 31, with only a couple of contracts left in him, and he was tired of dealing with a punch-drunk balloon-head of a quarterback in Ben Roethlisberger on a downward-trending team in Pittsburgh. When the Steelers shipped him to a sinkhole in Oakland, he got a load of the chaotic sham-ism and dumpster igniting that Coach Jon Gruden and General Manager Mike Mayock call leadership, and he decided he couldn’t choke it down even for $30 million.

So he turned himself into the very picture of a malcontent, broke every rule of training camp truancy and violated all of the respect-for-authority norms in a league that is literally terrified of loose-change individualists until he was free and could take his pick of teams. Again, good for him. May he win a Super Bowl ring with New England and get his $20 million extension.

It doesn’t matter whether Brown is a complicated man — “this attention-craving drama queen” in the words of ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky — or just a supremely calculating one. Either way, I root for him and hope he wins in the bigger context, which is to own himself and not let this disloyal profession turn him into another disposable piece of hamburger in a fast-food wrapper.

to read rest of article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nfl/dont-blame-antonio-brown-for-putting-himself-first-no-one-else-was-going-to/2019/09/09/76a6601c-d34d-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html

Wallace108 wrote:

Report: Antonio Brown harasses latest accuser via text message

Antonio Brown may have crossed the line, as far as the NFL and the Patriots** are concerned.

Robert Klemko of SI.com reports that Brown has sent harassing text messages to the unnamed accuser who shared allegations with Klemko regarding Brown’s behavior after Brown hired her to paint a mural at his house.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/09/20/report-antonio-brown-harasses-latest-accuser-via-text-message/amp/?__twitter_impression=true