Buccaneers to officially cut Antonio Brown

[SPIDER-MAN]

I can't find what made Brown leave the way he did. Did someone look at him wrong?

 

[UK_EaglesFan89]

I can only assume (besides the fact we know he's messed up) that they were losing to a bad team and he wasn't seeing many targets?

[heavyharmonies]

Drama queens gunna drama queen.

[Boogyman]

[Bwestbrook36]

That's the thing with these guys. People say oh they just want to win ... BS he won a super bowl last year and he is still an effing moron. 

[UK_EaglesFan89]

7 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

That's the thing with these guys. People say oh they just want to win ... BS he won a super bowl last year and he is still an effing moron. 

Yeah he's an unstable individual as he's shown a number of times now. He wants to win but he wants to win by being the biggest reason. 

[CheesesteakNBeer]

Reports that Arians benched him and he went off. Multiple teammates tried to calm him down and keep him from stripping but obviously didn't happen. Drama all week apparently in practice due to Brown's suspension due to violating covid protocols.

[Boogyman]

The dude has CTE.

[UK_EaglesFan89]

Just now, CheesesteakNBeer said:

Reports that Arians benched him and he went off. Multiple teammates tried to calm him down and keep him from stripping but obviously didn't happen. Drama all week apparently in practice due to Brown's suspension due to violating covid protocols.

He's just a walking problem... But I'd have him over Reagor without doubt. And that's not me saying I even want Brown. 

[CheesesteakNBeer]

Just now, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

He's just a walking problem... But I'd have him over Reagor without doubt. And that's not me saying I even want Brown. 

I hear ya.  Such a shame. Seems like the guys that go out like this are ones that have tons of talent as well. Sad.

[LacesOut]

Bi-polar dude. Mental illness, gotta be. Just WTF is he doing/thinking??!!

Makes me wonder if he even flies back to TB with the team. Maybe they say 'you are not on this team anymore, get your own transportation back to TB'.

[John Blutarski]

He's nuts

[Boogyman]

[vaff]

1 hour ago, LacesOut said:

Bi-polar dude. Mental illness, gotta be. Just WTF is he doing/thinking??!!

Makes me wonder if he even flies back to TB with the team. Maybe they say 'you are not on this team anymore, get your own transportation back to TB'.

Yeah, I think he has major mental health problems.

[DBW]

https://fb.watch/ahZILkCObz/

[Boogyman]

If you think way back to before all his BS...this dude had an outside chance to be the GOAT.  Wasted talent is always sad.

[dweagle]

Someone posted all of these on a Reddit thread.  If any of us average Joes would have done all this, we would be out of our job or field.  

• Drove 100 down McKnight Road in Pittsburgh, which has a 45 MPH speed limit
• Trashed a condo and threw furniture out a window 14th floor window, which almost hit some people, notably a child
• Killed a home aquarium full of piranhas and refused to pay the man who installed the tank
• Refused to play week 17 for the Steelers
• Dyed his mustache blonde
• Refused to pay a chef because he thought he threatened him by placing a fish head in the freezer (the fish head was saved to make a soup)
• Farted on a doctor
• Demanded a trade from the Steelers
• Became "Mr. Big Chest"
• Threw a fit over Juju winning team MVP and trashed him on social media
• (Allegedly) nixed a trade that would've sent him to the Bills
• Showed up to Raiders training camp in a hot air balloon
• Held out and refused to show up to training camp because the NFL would not approve his helmet because it was too old for their safety standards
• Froze his feet
• Tried to paint over his old helmet, hoping no one would notice I guess
• Acquired a newer version of the same model of helmet, which the NFL refused to let him use
• Picked out a new helmet and finally showed up to the Raiders
• Got fined by the Raiders for not attending camp
• Tweeted the fines
• Tried to fight Mike Mayock, called him a cracker, had to be held back by Vontaze Burfict, then punted a football down the practice field and said "fine me for that"
• Got fined for that
• Released a video where he used audio of Jon Gruden, who didn't know he was being recorded, which is illegal in California (full disclosure, Gruden has said he gave permission, but the generally accepted theory is that he said that in the hope that it would help get him to show up to the facility and not alienate him)
• Demanded a release from the Raiders
• Was released
• "GRANDMA I’M FREEEEEE! FLY LIKE A FREEEEE!"
• Made a lot of crazy tweets saying stuff like 'Devil is a lie', a proverb about burning down a village... he made a lot of crazy tweets around this time is the point here
• Liked a tweet about Mayock getting raped in the ass
• Signed with the Patriots
• Moved in with Tom Brady
• The sexual assault allegations came out (the one where he's getting sued)
• The sexual harassment allegations came out (the one where he's not getting sued)
• Threatened the woman not suing him in a group text that included his lawyer and had a picture of her kids in the text
• Got released by the Patriots after one week
• Went off on a tweet storm and said a lot of crazy crap about a lot of people, and was supportive of people sending threats to the writer of the article detailing the sexual harassment allegations
• Said he was done with the NFL
• Went back to college via online classes
• Tried to outsource his homework to Twitter
• Wants to come back to the NFL
• Filed several grievances to try and get more than $40 million from the Raider's and Patriots
• Was ordered to show up for a deposition regarding trashing the condo
• Was accused of "reprehensible behavior" during the deposition (which is it's own insane thread, btw), which included, but was not limited too:
 1 "Arrived nearly 30 minutes late to the deposition." 
 2 “[C]hanted, over and over, as if a mantra, a narrative of his own warped concept of the proceeding”. 
 3 "Acting as if he was above the rule of law, [Brown] proceeded to make a mockery of the deposition process. [Brown’s] antics were so unreasonable that barely twenty [20] minutes into the deposition, his counsel asked for a break [so] he could speak with [Brown] about his demeanor. 
 4 "After approximately 20-30 minutes, [Brown] required another break. When the deposition resumed [Brown] increased his level of obstructive behavior. At one point, [Brown] refused to answer any questions, instead saying "next question” no less than 10 times.” 
 5 "Soon thereafter, [Brown] started announcing a countdown, starting at ‘five (5) minutes,’ and counting down the minutes thereafter. Before noon [Brown] left the conference room.” 
• Said that the Patriots have to pay him anyway, so they might as well let him play
• Tweeted a couple of bizarre tweets about the Raiders using him for HBO ratings and the Patriots trying to steal his stuff and kept using this weird chicken based metaphor
• Tried out for the Saints and brought an entourage and film crew to shoot a music video with him when specifically told not to do that
• Called out Robert Kraft for his rub and tug massage session in Florida
• Starting training for a boxing match with Logan Paul
• Tweeted "No more white woman 2020"
• The attorney representing him in the suit involving the condo quit
• Used a bunch of slurs and profane language towards cops in an Instagram video he posted
• A police youth football league cut ties with him and returned a donation after the release of the video saying there was a "irreparable rift" between the department and AB
• Threw a bag of gummy candy Ds at the cops in a video he posted
• Got dropped by his agent
• Was involved in a disputed with movers at his home where he allegedly threw rocks at the movers and moving vans. He is currently being investigated for battery by the police.
• His trainer was arrested and he is still a suspect in the battery case.
• Warrant issued for the arrest of AB.
• AB turns himself in to Broward Country Jail wearing this suit
• Rumors spread about AB signing with Tampa or Seattle
• AB announces his retirement (for what I believe is the third time, it's hard to find a good record of the rest of them)
• Two days later AB wants to play again and is asking for the league to wrap up it's investigation
• Joins TB12 in Tampa bay

[PoconoDon]

Another CTE meltdown. He needs a lot of help and I hope he gets it.

[Guest]

Dude is an idiot with brain damage 

[Boogyman]

[Bwestbrook36]

5 hours ago, Boogyman said:

The dude has CTE.

Maybe, then again lots of players have CTE and don't act like this. Most likely an unmedicated mental illness. I don't think CTE gets this bad while still playing, he has been mental for a long time. 

[vaff]

6 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

Maybe, then again lots of players have CTE and don't act like this. Most likely an unmedicated mental illness. I don't think CTE gets this bad while still playing, he has been mental for a long time. 

I think he’s mentally ill, as well. Which may or may not be caused by CTE. 

[Bwestbrook36]

4 minutes ago, vaff said:

I think he’s mentally ill, as well. Which may or may not be caused by CTE. 

He has had questionable behavior all the way back to college. So it is probably a combination of many things. Mental illness, diva receiver, just a straight up a-hole and CTE. All getting progressively worse

[MIRV Griffen]

17 hours ago, Boogyman said:

The dude has CTE.

No doubt in my mind that’s what’s going on.  From Madden coverboy to running off the field in an inexplicable outburst, seemingly overnight.  This piece on the exact cause is quite compelling and cements it in my mind that CTE (and possibly, this particular play) is the simple answer:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/4585756002?fbclid=IwAR1Fn7m2KvUw48sEWpzZehPQQW4--gB__T828rYZyOiMrC28Kw49G5IfXng

"And the 93.7 The Fan host told CBS Sports Radio's The Zach Gelb Show that he's "a firm believer" that Vontaze Burfict's hit on Brown in the Cincinnati Bengals' loss to the Steelers in the AFC Wild Card Game in 2016 changed Brown's life.

From Dunlap:

He started to be someone who was afraid everyone was out to get him, he never smiled after that all that much - he became somebody different. He used to be innocently narcissistic, much like a lot of receivers in the NFL, but he didn’t have this dark side to him. And for me, every single incident, it all happened after the Burfict hit.

If you can’t see the trajectory that took a sharp spike right after the Burfict hit - and he has never recovered since then. That’s just all fact, the timeline: the everybody’s out to get me, the dark, never smiling. The guy used to smile all the time. ... When’s the last time you’ve seen AB happy? ... I think that the launching point for me is that AFC Wild Card game. I think it’s that, and I think his head is messed up from football.”

[Bwestbrook36]

4 hours ago, MIRV Griffen said:

No doubt in my mimd that’s what’s going on.  From Madden coverbot to running off the field in an inexplicable outburst, seemingly overnight.  This piece on the exact cause is quite compelling and cements it in my mind that CTE (and possibly, this particular play) is the simple answer:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/4585756002?fbclid=IwAR1Fn7m2KvUw48sEWpzZehPQQW4--gB__T828rYZyOiMrC28Kw49G5IfXng

"And the 93.7 The Fan host told CBS Sports Radio's The Zach Gelb Show that he's "a firm believer" that Vontaze Burfict's hit on Brown in the Cincinnati Bengals' loss to the Steelers in the AFC Wild Card Game in 2016 changed Brown's life.

From Dunlap:

He started to be someone who was afraid everyone was out to get him, he never smiled after that all that much - he became somebody different. He used to be innocently narcissistic, much like a lot of receivers in the NFL, but he didn’t have this dark side to him. And for me, every single incident, it all happened after the Burfict hit.

If you can’t see the trajectory that took a sharp spike right after the Burfict hit - and he has never recovered since then. That’s just all fact, the timeline: the everybody’s out to get me, the dark, never smiling. The guy used to smile all the time. ... When’s the last time you’ve seen AB happy? ... I think that the launching point for me is that AFC Wild Card game. I think it’s that, and I think his head is messed up from football.”

But yet he behaved all of last season, now they are losing and this happens. I'm not saying there isn't some cte going on but, I don't think that's all of it. Lots of guys have taken wicked hits to the head they don't act like that this soon.