Antonio Brown Released by Oakland

[909]

That really says something about the Raiders that Antonio wanted out that badly that he'd resort to social media tactics. Though hey, they worked. So what do I know?

You're going to have to explain what this means, because it doesn't say anything about the Raiders at all. It says a lot more about the guy so childish that they would be so happy in signing a huge contract, turn around a few months later and act like a moron.

I'm not sure you're aware, but the guy reported on his own time to work out with Derek Carr and toss balls this offseason. This idea that this was all planned from the start, it's pretty ludicrous as nobody held a gun to his head making him accept a trade or sign a new contract. It was all good until AB went back to doing the same things he did in Pittsburgh. It was planned from the point that someone wouldn't put up with a ball getting kicked at them, because guys like Antonio Brown don't like when normal people tell them what to do. Jeremy Shockey was apparently the same way.

Brown’s run-in with Mayock on Wednesday apparently wasn’t the first time in his career he had an open confrontation that created an uncomfortable scene.

“He came out the day after he signed that extension [in 2012] and he was riding everybody – yapping at everyone,” the source said. “Saying things about how he was the franchise and telling people not to touch him during practice. Saying it to the defense and yelling at the defensive coaches.

“At one point it started getting really heated. It was really tense. You could feel it. So [defensive coordinator] Dick LeBeau kind of intervened and AB snapped on him and started cursing him out. He was screaming at Coach LeBeau.

“Guys were just looking at each other like, ‘Is this dude serious right now?’ It almost started a fight. [Safety] Ryan Clark and [cornerback] Ike Taylor and [safety] Troy Polamalu were hearing all this and so was the crowd at practice. You could tell the crowd could hear it by their reaction to it. That’s how bad it was.”

The source continued: “I saw Troy get seriously pissed off maybe twice, and this was one of those two times. Troy was so mad, he says to wide receivers coach Scottie Montgomery, ‘The receivers are live [targets] the rest of this period.’ Which was Troy’s way of saying, ‘We’re going after this guy.’ ”

https://sports.yahoo.com/steelers-enabled-antonio-brown-and-now-the-raiders-are-paying-for-it-051043795.html

I think you and others should read this. Former Steelers players blame it on the guy who can't even get his team ready for Sunday Night Football.

If it's the Raiders fault because they won't handle fools, then yeah, I guess it's their fault. Everyone was saying on Thursday and Friday that they should release him or Mayock should resign though. People can't have it both ways.

 

[KingPK]

https://deadspin.com/why-good-organizations-know-how-to-handle-players-like-1837929843

I loathe most of Deadspin, but this is a tremendous (though very long) read about how teams deal with guys like AB and Terrell Owens.

 

[Kageho]

*replying to whatever the hell it is I wrote*

Yeah, no, I fucked that up. You wanna know how badly? I have no fucking clue what I was writing about either. I'm literally trying to make sense of it and all I got for you and me is nothing. Like seriously, what the fucking hell?

...sure I'm dealing with being sick today, so I'm drugged up more than I normally am, but even then, this is like utterly wtf for me. Like honestly, no idea.

 

[909]

https://twitter.com/benshpigel/status/1171581904669368325

Pats problem now motherfuckers

The mastermind to get out of Oakland is actually a criminal mastermind how do you like that shit.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Okay. This was all fun, but now things have gotten serious. Time to quit joking if there is any substance at all to these claims.

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

WHAT IS HAPPENING

 

[KingPK]

As if he wasn't on the thinnest of ice already. He may not play a down.

 

[909]

Okay, no more jokes. So this is on Linkedin about Brown's attorney...

The emails in the complaint are also the clearest case of an admission to sexual assault that I've ever seen. Rape? I don't know about that, that's separate. But he did something very bad.

 

[KOAB]

 

[909]

https://twitter.com/DougKyed/status/1171626562590035969

"She is seeking in excess of $75,000."

If you're trying to extort someone the way that AB's attorney claims, you'd ask for a hell of a lot more.

 

[KOAB]

Mayock is a bigger player than thought he just ended this clowns career.

 

[909]

https://twitter.com/nick_underhill/status/1171631870607613957

Exempt list is coming, judging from the last two lines. So he's gonna be basically suspended until this is over. And this is a guy who can't keep his mouth shut and most definitely is gonna lose his mind over this.

 

[Kageho]

As if this whole thing couldn't get any wilder. Wow.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

"The Patriots were caught by surprise"

Yeah, no shit. I'm sure they would have been all over this signing if they knew it was about to break the next day.

 

[Master Thrasher]

Next week he'll admit to murdering someone or end up in a shootout with the police.

 

[Krankor]

What a scum. Hopefully this costs him his new contract.

See ya in the XFL AB!

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Awful stuff. AB clearly has to be done for the year if these are true, at the very least. Ideally he'd get some sort of jail time tbh.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/sports/football/antonio-brown-sexual-asssault-patriots.html

"Taylor ended her working relationship with Brown, the lawsuit says, but several months later, when he contacted her to apologize, she relented. She was, according to the lawsuit, “swayed by his assurance that he would cease any sexual advances.”

Then, the lawsuit says, on May 20, 2018, Brown forced her onto a bed, pushed her face into the mattress and “forcibly” raped her. She tried to resist him, screaming and repeatedly shouting “no” and “stop,” the lawsuit says, but Brown refused and penetrated her."

"The lawsuit says that Taylor told at least three people about the incidents: her mother, Brown’s chef, and a member of her church, who advised her to come forward."

 

[AA484]

Awful stuff. AB clearly has to be done for the year if these are true, at the very least. Ideally he'd get some sort of jail time tbh.

It's a civil case so he won't get jail time unless a D.A. wants to run with it.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

https://twitter.com/AlbertBreer/status/1171780783717191680

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

The NFL has chosen not to punish Antonio Brown and he's free to play on Sunday.

 

[KOAB]

Sweet

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

They let Tyreek Hill play, so why would this be any different? What a joke.

 

[Zetterberg is God]

Upon arrival, Brown passed gas numerous times in Prisk’s vicinity while Prisk was testing his body fat. A video, shot by a Brown acolyte, made the rounds on the internet. “It seemed just childish to me,” Prisk says now. “I’m a doctor and this man is farting in my face.”

https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/09/16/antonio-brown-new-england-patriots-lawsuits-accusations-sexual-midconduct-assault

 

[909]

The stuff in that article is so bad. If you read that and think the sexual assault and rape allegation isn't very credible, there's something wrong with you.

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

This is the very definition of "I'm not happy to be right about this." It's fucking awful. This isn't playcalling or personnel choices which can be questioned like football often is, this is a criminal pattern that involves real victims.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

NFL won't do anything without a video. I think that's pretty much certain now.

 

[909]

https://twitter.com/RobertKlemko/status/1174895770752839681

What a thing to return home to. It is unquestionably Brown who sent them. This guy should be suspended for a long fucking time and is a fucking scumbag.

 

[Krankor]

This guy is acting like a mafia crime boss.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

More detail on how AB has been identified.

https://twitter.com/RobertKlemko/status/1174910803637460993
https://twitter.com/RobertKlemko/status/1174911293855191041
https://twitter.com/RobertKlemko/status/1174911717777661953
https://twitter.com/RobertKlemko/status/1174912260268904448