My son was flipping back and forth between Red Zone and the Pats game, turned to me and this was the most predictable thing to happen today.
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Toms love for AB was always so strange and disappointing to me (right up the with the concussion water TB12 BS)
Brown has been a really bad person for a number of years. nobody will give Arians or TB shit for it, but it was a real mistake keeping him around after the Covid BS
He had another $1M in incentives within reach. Not sure if that was on his mind after the benching. Haven't seen anything about why he was benched either.
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I swear AB has some serious Kompromat on Tom
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Eh. He didn't excuse it, and the not-so-implicit suggestion there is that he knows AB ain't right.
I think AB's exit today tops Irving Fryar departing Foxborough mid-game and crashing his car.
That is how I read it as well. I mean something is not right with AB.
well saying the right things is pretty easy after you did all the wrong things
There are like 2,000 plus players in the league, of which dozens have mental conditions, but we should direct our compassion to this guy?
Arians and Licht are dumb for letting this play out after the vax card shitshow. Pivoting from ‘changed man’ to ‘hes gone’ in like a week is a tough look.
Brady can’t really say anything else than he did, and GM TB12 joked aside he’s a player so you can’t hold him responsible for this nonsense.
Arians and Licht are dumb for letting this play out after the vax card shitshow. Pivoting from ‘changed man’ to ‘hes gone’ in like a week is a tough look.
Brady can’t really say anything else than he did, and GM TB12 joked aside he’s a player so you can’t hold him responsible for this nonsense.
Well we know it ain’t altruism…that shit’s a myth.
Maybe we could direct our compassion to all of them? That seems possible.
You’re a better person than I, I guess, because I have limited energy and of the people with problems who are their own worst enemies he isn’t one I feel bad for.
He acts like a fucking asshole.
If you don’t have the energy, then you’d just be ambivalent. If you have the energy to think badly of him, then you have the energy to have compassion. Probably take less energy to have compassion, honestly…who needs the extra cortisol from being angry about a football player (who clearly has emotional issues)?
I’m not a better person…. I dislike most people. It’s exhausting.
Antonio Brown's actions should be owned by Antonio Brown and nobody else. Neither Tom Brady nor Bruce Ariens had any culpability. Sometimes it's really that simple. Brown may very well be mentally ill, but that is not something that Brady should be responsible for either.
Bringing in AB after he was:
1) suspended for 8 games for felony assault and battery (plead down)
2) credible sexual assault accusations by multiple women (you know the thing that caused his release from the pats)
3) all the "stuff" with the Raiders
4) the helmet thing
5) the Juju thing
Plus a bonus of excusing his fake covid card felony and covering for his ass over the last few years simply because TB wanted him and he is talented.
Fair point; it’s my reaction to him after observing his behavior over the years, so I suppose I would say that my inclination isn’t to feel bad for him net net and I’m not interested in attempting to force myself to feel differently.
Can he still catch a ball and run really fast? If so, I'm willing to bet there's one GM and coach combo out there who will try to bring him in. Winning isn't everything, after all...
Today is the first time I really felt worried for the guy. It just seems pretty clear something is very off with him in terms of impulse control, etc. He's been credibly accused of some pretty bad things, and if true, he should be held accountable. But, I also think, if he does have legit mental heath issues, possibly even from CTE, I hope there's some help he can get.
I’ve always wondered if the Burfict hit in 2016 increased his outbursts.
It just seems after that he took a turn, what I can’t figure out is if the Steelers were just really good at keeping that in-house until that event…
Here’s an article with the timeline after that event, cant seem to find clear issues prior to 2016 except for these below:
2012 - ran backward on a TD run the final 20 yards picked up a fine.
2014 - tried to hurdle punter unsuccessfully and kicked him in face - fined.
2016 - hung on goal post after TD against the colts - fined.
That’s all I can locate on the field for drama, is this a growing likelihood of a CTE issue or other mental health issues clearly coming through in possible addition to a CTE issue?
It just seems after that he took a turn, what I can’t figure out is if the Steelers were just really good at keeping that in-house until that event…
Here’s an article with the timeline after that event, cant seem to find clear issues prior to 2016 except for these below:
2012 - ran backward on a TD run the final 20 yards picked up a fine.
2014 - tried to hurdle punter unsuccessfully and kicked him in face - fined.
2016 - hung on goal post after TD against the colts - fined.
That’s all I can locate on the field for drama, is this a growing likelihood of a CTE issue or other mental health issues clearly coming through in possible addition to a CTE issue?
One was an employer; the other a colleague. No need to deflect and apportion blame.
Employers are responsible for their employees and Brady has now convinced multiple franchises to take a chance on a clearly volatile AB. None of this exonerates the principally responsible AB, but there’s plenty of blame to go around in my opinion.
Absolutely nothing to substantiate this but I wonder if Brady looks back at Hernandez and thinks he saw the situation was bad news and didn't do anything about it. He obviously wants to play with Brown for his own benefit but he also seems to have tried hard to help him just for the sake of helping him.
that’s basically what I’ve always heard. After that horrific hit to the head he just went completely off the rails afterwards. Before that there was nothing too crazy.
I cannot imagine they change their mind after it was basically the first thing the coach said after the game in a press conference.
Weird. He looked to be running ok and obviously had those incentives. Had 5 targets so not like he wasn’t getting action. But I guess that’s AB for you.
That link doesn’t mention the ankle. Is there another link?
Haven’t seen the reason Brown refused to go into the game mentioned in a postgame article yet. Brown didn’t practice on Thursday due to the ankle. The sideline reporter mentioned after Halftime that Arians told her Brown and Evans were being kept on a snap count in their return from injury.
Coach: Can you go?
AB: No, ankle is sore.
Coach: Okay, sit the rest of this one out.
AB: WTF??? I QUIT!!!
AB can be a total asshole AND have mental health issues. People can make fun of his outburst AND show him some empathy.
Brady is ridiculously good, it’s beyond real at this point how good. The twilight of his career has been better than Clemens’ already.
The loss of AB and Godwin are likely to hurt TB in the postseason though, it would be exciting to see what TB12 can do with this team the next few weeks. . . .you know, for Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans.
Brady is ridiculously good, it’s beyond real at this point how good. The twilight of his career has been better than Clemens’ already.
The loss of AB and Godwin are likely to hurt TB in the postseason though, it would be exciting to see what TB12 can do with this team the next few weeks. . . .you know, for Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans.
I remember the video of him screaming the vilest things at his kids’ mom-in front of his kids-and laughing at them all like the biggest asshole in the world. Sometimes people are just that, complete assholes. Antonio for me falls in that camp.
Apparently AB’s driver scored a big catch for his channel.
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According to Rapoport, Arians and the coaches told Brown to leave and that he was done with the team.
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If his leash was that short, why would you even bring him back?
What in AB's history told them that he was never going to take another step out of line.
They just set themselves up to look like fools.
Hey, you’re right that article doesn’t reference the ankle. I may have heard that as part of the coverage, or read it in another article, but I didn’t make it up
. My apologies
Which spawned the best lede ever (Borges (I think)): "First there was the knife in the hand. Then there was the fork in the road."
I'm pretty sure TB (the team and the player) knew *something* was likely to happen. Meanwhile, they got some good use out of him. Brady might be the only person who cares beyond that. I doubt Arians cares much about looking like a fool.