You thought the Antonio Brown saga was over? NOPE! UPDATE: Patriots have released him UPDATE 2022: Bucs release him

D@mnphins

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This dude needs a shot of realism in his life and the sad part it can only come from social media. Everyone who is on his social media accounts need to drop him. No more likes or members on his friends list no one paying attention to him maybe he will start to focus. I still remember he made a comment a year ago about the media giving him too much attention and putting to much pressure on him. This the same dude that showed up in a chauffeured Rolls Royce. Didnt he come down in a hot air balloon or a tandom sky dive. I don't remember.
 

jack walsh13

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I’m hip. I didn’t say AB is doing this from some conspiracy against him standpoint. But if this becomes a common thing I understand it. Like I said AB has made his own bed and just reaping the consequences from it.
Yup.

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CORNBREAD

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He will get a paycheck like Dez Bryant but may not get too many snaps behind the line of scrimmage
 

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There Was Never Any Redemption Story in Antonio Brown
Nothing Bruce Arians, Tom Brady or anyone in the Bucs organization says can mask what the arrangement between this team and this player ultimately was.
MICHAEL ROSENBERG

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Antonio Brown’s walk-off strip show was a bizarre but appropriate ending to his Buccaneers tenure. Removing his jersey was the only way to get the Bucs to see him for what he really is.
For two years, the Bucs sold us the fallacy that athletic success is a reflection of character and that Brown’s performance meant he had made personal progress. The two most important people in the organization, Tom Brady and Bruce Arians, both peddled that nonsense at times. The reality is that when the Bucs signed Brown, he was a great football player with a recent history of damaging and destructive behavior. For the entire time he played for them, he was a great football player with a recent history of damaging and destructive behavior. That’s not progress. The Bucs just reinforced that, as long as he was a great football player, the recent history of damaging and destructive behavior did not matter.

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Teams throughout sports should take a hard look at what happened in Tampa. It is a prime example of what happens when, consciously or subconsciously, teams view people through the prism of what they do on the field. In 15 games as a Buc, Brown caught 87 passes for 1,008 yards and eight touchdowns. That success added fuel to the illusion that Tampa Bay was right about him. In fact, every catch just pushed him closer to an implosion, because it tilted the dynamics of the relationship. In the beginning, Brown needed the Bucs. The better he played, the more he believed the Bucs needed him.

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.
There were so many more mature ways for him to respond. He could have said the questions were fair but he had changed his mind. He could have said he believed in zero tolerance when Brown was signed but the more he thought about it, the more he realized he should not have taken such an absolutist stance. He could have said that in his mind, obtaining a fake vaccine card did not rise to the level of dismissal, especially since Brown did get vaccinated.
Arians did say, “Well, the history has changed since that statement. A lot of things went on last year that I was very proud of him.” But that got lost in his dismissal of critics, and anyway, Arians didn’t really say what “went on last year.”
 

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A good segment of youngsters will see him as The People's Champ. He will have multiple opportunities to capitalize off his celebrity. Boxing, Rap, reality TV, celebrity appearances. I could see him having a top Podcast.

He will still be relevant for years to come if he plays things right.
 
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