it wasn't a surprise that ended up in
tampa but what is surprising
is that bruce arians just keep it a buck
man you said no
a couple of months ago you changed your
mind now to bring in antonio brown with
all of his baggage
only because you knew look even if brady
didn't call you in the middle of the
night begging and pleading for you to do
it
the only reason you bring in antonio
brown knowing what we all know about
antonio brown and i'm strictly just
talking about his
between the lines and locker room
behavior i'm not even talking about the
investigations
i'm not even talking about that yet but
knowing what you knew about antonio
brown to begin with
and why you had reservations about him
before the only reason
you sign him is because of 12. and i'm
not just talking about two appease 12
not just because you think you're you
know you're beat up at the position and
you know you look great on paper but god
went and and uh
and evans and miller are all playing
hurt i'm not even talking about that
you bring him in because you know that
12 will keep him in line
which goes back to him being the best
employee there is
is because you know that as as a as
another old friend of ours like to say
he's a force multiplier
that if no if antonio brown listens to
anybody
he's going to listen to tom brady brady
is going to be able to get through to
him
brady will put his arm around him or put
his foot
in his behind whichever one is necessary
to keep antonio braun in line that's why
you sign him
not every quarterback there are other
quarterbacks
who may be willing to put up with
antonio brown's shenanigans
there may be other quarterbacks who
could
check antonio brown but brady
is a combination of not only what i'm am
i willing to put up with it i'm not
gonna put up with it
he's not gonna cross me and i'm gonna
put in the work
that it takes to keep him in check so
when aryan's
otherwise had nothing to do with it
brady brady had everything to do with it
in terms of
him wanting antonio but you knowing that
hey man you got him cool i ain't got to
worry about that 12 got that
no that's funny it's funny he said uh
antonio brown has matured
since since you said you weren't
interested in having him on the
buccaneers no
he has not matured that's not why he's
on the roster
now yes brady does have the best
relationship with antonio brown
i don't know if i'm willing to go as far
as you you did
saying hey brady's gonna do this brady's
gonna do that i don't know what brady's
gonna be able to do
lebron i don't know i think brady's got
the best
chance willing oh he's got somebody's
willingness
i'm talking about his willingness
whether he would succeed
if antonio brown is still the guy that
he was and hasn't changed
or isn't humbled or isn't desperate or
doesn't realize that this is his last
chance
okay if he's not br if anybody can get
through to him
it's brady that's all i'm saying i'm not
saying he will succeed
and if anybody's willing to do it it's
tom brady clearly because brady loves
him
for whatever reason and we were talking
about you know game changers
and one of the things and we've talked
about this the last couple of weeks
because
le'veon bell former steeler going to
kansas city
and now antonio brown going to the
buccaneers here's one thing
this is so much fun i know one thing
antonio brown
hasn't had in a full season
no matter who he just hasn't had a
down season he hasn't had one of those
seasons where you go
ah okay that's all right that's all
right when he's out there in other words
when he's out there
he's the best and if you don't think
he's the best i do i think he's when
he's playing his game i think he's the
best receiver in football but let's say
if you don't think he is he's a top five
talent
so you add if he's out there and you got
a top five talent to an offense that is
already
ridiculous going at a high level and
scored a bunch of points yesterday
uh against the raiders i told you and
you know my bet your money i told you
that was going to happen
anyway uh if you got you add that guy
you add that guy to that office
now that really is an unstoppable
offense because they can do everything
you wanna go back to franchise mode
and they can't they can you wanna go
back to franchise mode like i wouldn't
let you do that
like if we were franchi and i wouldn't
do that like we were franchising the
books
and antonio brown's fridge i'm like nah
that's just that's
too much that's just that's the
guys stop
we can't that's yeah exactly like it's
just that that doesn't look right
you know a paper like come on man we're
trying to just sign everything out there
yeah we can't just go we're trying to
approximate them
right you can't get leonard fournette
and free agency and you can't get
you know antonio brown and friedrich you
can't get rob gronkowski it's like yeah
that's just
a stack we stack in the deck we when i
was growing up in new orleans we used to
call that comp
you know what i don't even know what
that means we just gotta ask y'all with
all the good players to be on one team
and you got too many good players they
have it'd be too stacked like nah y'all
got a cop we gotta we gotta pick over we
gotta start this over
that's what the bucks look like right
now but going back to keeping the buck
for a second
you know talk about the off the field
the the assault uh allegations
investigations civil suits it's it's so
wild i can't
keep track of everybody gonna bother
look it up if you want all the
background on it like he still could
face additional league discipline beyond
the eight games he's already been
suspended right
what i found interesting about it
because we know that organizations
if he could play well enough they'll
give you another chance
that's right because they could always
they could always sell the narrative of
he's learned he's matured
you know he's he's paid his debt he's he
served his punishment you know
that always flies at a press conference
right you know why it flies
um because nobody really cares and
that's what i want just all of us to
keep it a buck about like nobody cares
nobody cares if you hit women we just we
just don't
collectively we just don't we never have
because if we did as a society the
punishment will be much more severe
but it's just not right both criminally
and professionally and i've long since
stopped
looking to the nfl to be the
arbiter or the harbinger or whatever or
whatever i'm looking forward to
of you know to protect our society
against men who put
their hands on women because if you're
good enough you'll always get a job and
i'm not even advocating for somebody
to be banned for life for it i don't
know that i necessarily have a position
on whether or not they should ever play
again
what i do know is that that has never
been enough to stop a team
from signing a player again if he's good
enough but what's interesting about this
particular story
because typically we lay that at the
feet of the organization we say
you know whether it's a gm a coach if
they if they can help them when they're
going to sign them
it doesn't stop there because i do
believe bruce arians i do believe bruce
aires when he said
that he talked to all the players on the
team and asked
do you want him on the team i don't
think their fellow players care
i think that the fellow players look at
is can this dude help us win
what he does with his women or his
personal life is his business that's
none of my business
they're all quite comfortable drawing a
line you disagree are you or is that a
a you say well well what i'm saying
yeah i'm i'm shaking my head like that
shaking my head is not disagreement
it is it's like a shame that's a shame
but yeah no there you go
that's what i'm saying at the table and
say let them stand on the table michael
and say
no on principle i cannot play with a uh
i'm not sure how strange of doing what
he's done i'm not sure that's true
though and i'm not
i'm not saying i expect them to either
don't get me wrong i'm not saying i
expect tom brady to stand up and say
i do i don't expect tom brady grace i do
go for it
i do i expect i don't because yeah
because if you say
he's going to be the greatest for the
greatest employee in the history of
employment
right if you're going to be that and
you're going to be somebody who is
advocating for somebody to be on your
roster to be on their team and you're
going to vouch for who they are
if there if your team is going to sign
him because i
i'm not about bands either just a flat
out band
but i think you have a responsibility
either brady
can say it or he can encourage
antonio brown to acknowledge what he's
done
and to speak about where he is in his
process in other words
yes i have made some mistakes
i've made some mistakes in my life and
this is where i am right now and this is
why i'm confident
that i'm not going to do this again
because i have realized
that i i've been too violent i've been
too dismissive
i've been too casual but i told you they
don't care okay
and maybe that's unreal to do something
trying to look at people's
transgressions and police what they're
doing in their personal lives
wait a minute so you're saying that's
the case in pro sports or that is that
how every job is
or are we just talking about the
majority i think that's the majority of
workplaces the vast majority of
workplaces but specifically in pro
sports
where we assign some kind of moral
authority to these leagues
when it comes to okay you committed x
transgression you should no longer have
the privilege remember it's a right it's
a privilege not a right
the privilege of playing this
professional sport that you get paid for
the the best players get to play you
should never have and i'm speaking
sarcastically here they should you
shouldn't be able to do it because of
what you would
whatever transgression you committed now
what and there are a lot of employers
i don't disagree with that but there are
a lot of there are a lot of employers
but i'm saying this
you may you may think that that's how it
should be
i'm telling you like it's a court andre
3000 i'll tell it like it is and i'll
tell you how it could be
you telling me how it should be i'm
telling you how it is but you know
that all of that is bs none of them sit
around because i'll tell you this right
now tom brady's sitting there saying
he may not agree with antonio brown's
life choices but tom brady's sitting
there right now
saying look he might have been watching
brother from another on on friday
being like i'm not gonna sit back and
let russell wilson get this dude
i'm not gonna sit back and let aaron
rodgers get this dude
i'm watching what the ravens are doing
in the afc i'm watching what patrick
mahomes is doing
getting le'veon bell antonio brown's out
there
i'm gonna let the league deal with his
whatever punishment he has if he's
available
bring him here he can help us bring him
here what i'm saying
is that it's not just a gm and a coach
making these decisions
i'm saying players fellow players are
not as much as we like to think they're
sitting up there
judging antonio brown about his on our
off the field transgressions
the very few few and far between
i think that's where he's receiving the
nfl saying he can help me do my job
better and he can get us to the super
bowl
uh on every roster i think they're
probably so let's go with the old school
the traditional uh pre-covered editions
let's go with the 53-man roster
on a 53-man roster i'm going to estimate
there are about
10 guys on every 53-man roster
that could potentially have the ear of
the head coach
and the general manager so
yeah out of those 10 those top 10 on the
tampa bay buccaneers with with tom brady
being number one maybe in front of the
head coach and general manager
uh are enough people protesting the
presence of
antonio brown no but i'm sure there are
some guys on that roster
who are saying i don't want to play with
this guy whether it is self-preservation
he's playing my position and i don't and
i want to keep getting my uh receptions
or hey i just don't like what he
represents
but it doesn't matter because they're
player number 29
player number 3435 and no matter what
you say
and when you're there you're not really
gonna even decide to say it
if they even decide to say it in that
position to your point they may they may
think it deep down in places they don't
talk about their parties
but they're probably not not enough to
speak but i think it's a shame though
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