lastcat3 wrote:Well AB has now officially been cut by the Patriots. Is this potentially the end of his NFL career or do you think another team will potentially give him a chance? In anycase I think this pretty much ends any theories that this was all a Belichick plot. AB is just a mess through and through. When the Patriots aren't willing to put up with you then that doesn't bold well for any other team being willing to put up with you.
He's thru for 2019, at least. He's also toxic, which means he won't be popping up on ESPN or NFL Network or anywhere, nor will he be doing any endorsements or be able to weasel his way into a reality TV show of some kind to promote himself. By next season, perhaps he will have grown up some (there's always a chance) and by then he will be available at a much cheaper salary, and somebody will probably give Brown a chance in training camp, on the condition that as soon as he pulls some stupid behavior or he finds himself involved in another lawsuit, he's gone.
I am reminded of a scene at the very end of the outstanding late 50's film "A Face in the Crowd" (a movie I highly recommend) where a certain character who was a very big TV star has just done something that has ruined his career disastrously, and another character points out to him (and I'm paraphrasing) that his career really isn't over, that he'll be back one day, but it won't be quite the same as it was. A year or two down the line, they'll let him back on a smaller network, for a lot less money, and the ratings won't be very high anymore because most people will remember what happened, and by the time he comes back, he'll be replaced by other people who are the hot new thing, and he's basically going to be a has been. That's pretty much where Antonio Brown is going to be.
"Every time you lose, you die a little bit. You die inside. Not all your organs, maybe just your liver." - George Allen