The Antonio Brown saga continues. On Thursday morning, AB tweeted a screenshot of an exchange with trainer Alex Guerrero, accusing Tom Brady‘s business partner of pocketing unearned cash (Twitter link via Jenna Laine of ESPN.com). Unfortunately, AB did more than just air dirty laundry — he also appears to have shared his own private bank account information.
Brown’s latest social media snafu may negate any sympathy earned by the statement he issued last night. Through his attorney, Brown explained that he has a bone fragment and ligament damage in his ankle, plus an MRI to prove it. He also alleged that head coach Bruce Arians ordered him to play to play, despite knowing that he was hurt. Brown says that when he refused, Arians responded by saying “you’re done” and gesturing with a finger across his throat.
The wide receiver also posted a text exchange with Arians (Twitter link) detailing his ankle malady. Arians, for his part, has said that he didn’t know that Brown was injured. At least, he didn’t know that Brown was too injured to play in that moment. That’s where the two stories truly diverge — Arians already knew about the problematic ankle that sidelined Brown earlier in the year, but he seems to be saying that Sunday’s sideline blowup was about something else.
As of this moment, Brown technically remains on the Buccaneers’ roster. But, as Arians told reporters over the weekend, he is “no longer a Buc.” It had been speculated that the Buccaneers were holding on to Brown in order to keep him away from other teams, but he won’t be hooking on with anyone for the 2021-22 playoffs.
“Once my surgery is complete,” said Brown in the statement. “I’ll be back to 100%… looking forward to next season.”
Crazy people say crazy things
Is there more videos of the sideline somewhere? Would be curious to see if there is a video of arians and brown talking with arians giving him the ‘cut throat’ gesture.
I’m sure there is somewhere that the NFL monitors this stuff.
Antonio Brown is nuts, but you know what, Antonio Brown is a blabber mouth, no secrets with him!!!
When he was in that dustup with the Raiders and Jon Gruden, he never said anything bad about Jon Gurden
Of all the stuff he said and did and whatever, he never attacked Gru Dog and to me that should clear Jon Gruden’s good name
Others may feel differently, but the one good thing that should come out of this is clearing Jon Gruden’s name
PS I will be curious as to what the final outcome of this sage with the Bucs will be.
Ya hopefully gruden sues the heck out of the raiders the league and that fairy in a suit goodell, personally
He wasn’t in a dust up with Gruden, he had on on field argument with Mayock and punted a football with his burned up foot. As much as I believe that Gruden got railroaded by Goodell and the NFL this situation with AB really doesn’t have any correlation to Gruden whatsoever.
@Captain
You forget the phonecall (message) Gruden left on Brown’s phone. Brown let that out in the public or someone did.
Anyway,…
1. AB “never attacked Gru Dog”
2. ????
3. So that clears “Jon Gruden’s good name”.
Huh?
“I found a neighbor of Jeffrey Dahmer’s whose brain was NOT in his freezer, so that should clear Jef Dahg’s good name!”
Obviously, not a Gruden fan
I am a logic fan.
Not following how AB’s lack of attack on Gruden has anything to do with the reason he resigned rather than face his players.
YIPES!!! Shared his financial info???
AB… Listen closely. Put the phone down. Step away, far far away from your phone. You can do it… You can do it…
Or maybe he can’t.
I can’t decide how much of the truth he is telling . . . this would make sense as to why AB left the field, but it doesn’t sound like anything Arians and the Bucs would actually do. I also still find it hard to believe that someone would actually pick him up after this. I dunno what to think.
If the Bucs were smart, they would keep AB. He gets along with Tom Brady which is the only thing that matters. For the media they can underplay what happened and act like it was not a major deal. Of course they could fine him. They can let him go after the season. If he can play, he will be an asset.
Get along with Brady..pretty sure that ended with his latest actions.
He went to his house.
First the Steelers, then the Raiders , then the Patriots and now the Buccaneers. This clown has no credibility.
The next team is ….
You can never trust anything a head coach tells you. As for Brown, what you see is what you get.
Just consider the source. Listening to complaints from Antonio Brown is like Jeffrey Dahmer calling you a cannibal or OJ Simpson saying you overreacted( which he did), Or Gacy calling you a clown. Really?
I beg all NFL gm’s, please don’t give this guy another chance.
Ankle injury? Bone fragments and ligament damage? The way he jumped around and ran off the field? Strange.
ESPN saying they released him
Women saying he assaulted them. What is your point? Oh yeah, you never have one, do you? Not a legitimate one, anyway, Randy Marsh.
What is this comment’s purpose?
Uhh to clarify that he’s been released since this article states he’s still a member of the bucs. Reading is hard for dimwits like you apparently
The League chose not to get involved. That says that there may be something to AB’s statements!
“Latest on Antonio Brown”…As long as everybody talks about AB that’s all that matters.
If the dude was really sincere he could’ve just walked out the tunnel instead of put on a show. I honestly want to be on his side with this ankle thing, but hours later he’s raising issue with the trainer…
Are you looking for war or peace, dude? Seriously…After a while people won’t care who’s fault it is. They’ll just figure chaos follows him.