Antonio Brown's New Gig

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Did anyone see Sip and Shannon? Quite remarkable. Skip says he was told what happened. Gronk had been in Brady's doghouse (for some reason), Brady wasn't targeting him. AB comes back after his suspension and Brady throws a bunch of balls to him in the Week 16 game.

In the Jets game, Brady likes the Gronk match up so he targets Gronk. AB is pissed! Tom has to chat to him and AB says "I guess you're going back to your boy Gronk eh?" Brady says stop it, not happy with AB. Arians was trying to get AB into the game so he could get his incentive payments but AB is pissed and refuses.

Now Skip is a huge Brady fanboy and even he says here that Tom has "emasculated" Bruce Arians and Skip blames Brady a lot for the AB situation....


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SI on this.

Ouch.

Brown stopped being a great football player Sunday. That is when Brady said, “I think everybody should do what they can to help him in ways that he really needs it.” That is a lovely sentiment, and Brady seemed genuine when he said it. But Brady and the Bucs seemed to convince themselves that playing football helped Brown, when it really just allowed him to ignore his serious problems. Sure, he had been accused of all sorts of misconduct. But he was still a productive football player. The rest was just—Brown actually and repeatedly used this word—“drama.”

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The Bucs got what they deserved for signing Brown. But they also got what they created. Second chances (and Brown was on his fourth) are not just about second chances. The opportunity is just the beginning. People need to be honest about their failures and own them every day until owning them is essential to their existence. The Bucs never really tried that. Instead, in October 2020, Arians told NBC Sports’s Peter King, “He screws up one time, he’s gone,” regarding his new star, which sounded great but was really just ridiculously shallow thinking. Brown has real problems. Saying, “Don’t do that again!” was no way to help him address them.

This year, when Brown was suspended for three games for procuring a fake COVID-19 vaccine card, Arians was asked about that zero-tolerance policy. His answer there was just as weak.

“I could give a s--- what [people] think,” Arians said. “The only thing I care about is this football team and what’s best for us.”

This was a classic Fake Tough Guy football-coach rant: cowardice cloaked in hubris. It was just Arians’s way of intimidating anybody who dare question him, and, by going that route, Arians implicitly dismissed the legitimacy of the questions.
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It was searingly obvious that Brown saw the sum of his transgressions not as mistakes he made, but as stuff that happened to him. There was never any redemption story here. This was not about personal growth. It was a simple story of the Bucs squeezing considerable production out of a man who had not changed.

And who wanted that more than anybody? Tom Brady.

Brady was the main reason Brown was in the league at all. After Brady signed with the Bucs, Arians publicly dismissed the idea of Brown joining the team. But Brady wanted him, and Brady got him.

Brady seems to genuinely believe that he knows better ways for most people to live, and he seemed to think he could help Brown. But he, as much as anybody in football, enabled Antonio Brown. That is surely not how Brady saw it at the time. But if he sits back and reflects, and his love for Brown is sincere, then hopefully he can see it now.

There are ways to help troubled people reenter their chosen profession. What the Bucs tried was a shortcut from the beginning. It worked on the field, but only on the field.

This is probably the end for Brown’s NFL career. He played on a level worthy of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but maybe he should start his own museum instead. On one wall, he can frame the jersey he ripped off in the middle of his team’s game Sunday. On another, he can hang the outdated helmet he insisted on wearing with the Raiders. On a screen, he can show his unauthorized Facebook Live stream from the Steelers’ locker room. He can also frame the stats he piled up, the bills he refused to pay and the lawsuits that were filed against him, quotes from the women he mistreated, and executives from every NFL team can walk inside and see who learns a damn thing.
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Antonio Brown in Tampa was never going to be a redemption story - Sports Illustrated

Looking back on the Bucs' decision to sign the receiver
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Roberto71 said:
SI on this.

Ouch.







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Antonio Brown in Tampa was never going to be a redemption story - Sports Illustrated

Looking back on the Bucs' decision to sign the receiver
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Great, great article. This part, "This was a classic Fake Tough Guy football-coach rant: cowardice cloaked in hubris. It was just Arians’s way of intimidating anybody who dare question him, and, by going that route, Arians implicitly dismissed the legitimacy of the questions" , is exactly how I look at Arians.
 
do NOT agree with the bolded.
he saw the pats cut a.b. when he did a typical asshole a.b. thing.
starting to really reflect on timing of bb saying he wants to coach only guys he likes. think it was 2018. maybe prophetic.

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Brady seems to genuinely believe that he knows better ways for most people to live, and he seemed to think he could help Brown. But he, as much as anybody in football, enabled Antonio Brown. That is surely not how Brady saw it at the time.
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Am I the only one wondering if Brown is actually going to be released? He still hasn't been officially cut from the team. Just not sure why they're waiting if they're serious about releasing him.
 
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