Antonio Brown has been making headlines around NFL for some days now. And now that the veteran receiver has been released from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers squad, he is definitely ‘No Way Home’. Brown was harshly criticized for his inexplicable actions during the Jets matchup on Sunday. However, the shocking revelation of the story behind, let people believe that there was more to the story than just the naked dance.
The revelation brought to light that Antonio Brown was already struggling with his ankle injury. Yet he was forced to play that day. But when the pain became too unbearable for him, he had a word with the coaches and decided to not enter the field anymore. When he told the same to Bruce Arians. The coach immediately misunderstood it with the veteran’s notorious attitude and told him to “get the ‘F’ out of the game.”
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Antonio Brown has the support of Tom Brady and other teammates
But Bruce stood by his call and decided to cut the veteran wideout out of the roster once and for all. In the meantime, Brown himself took to social media to reveal his side of the story and how stubborn, coach Arians was in his stance. And recently in a Twitter post, the 33-year-old explained:
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Don’t get it twisted. My brothers have been good to me. From Tom to practice squad, we were a top-level unit. They have been good to me and knew nothing about my talks with coach last week. The team mishandled this situation. They let me down and, more importantly, my teammates.
— AB (@AB84) January 6, 2022
While the coach had a very critical take on the receiver. The quarterback Tom Brady holds an opinion that is quite the opposite. He took it as an opportunity to show how athletes are deprived of their mental stability. And that this case was different from no other. Brady had an empathetic approach to the whole episode. Since he believes that being a player is not like being a “robot”.
