Buccaneers. He caught the game-winning touchdown pass
yesterday. And he's had a couple of strong weeks. Mike
Evans was able to come back and contribute a couple of weeks
after the hamstring injury,
but you're right. It may be difficult for Richard perriman,
who was with the Buccaneers and did. Well in 2019 back this
year. You know, what happened to Tyler Johnson? What happened
to Scotty Miller?
Where are these guys that were key role players last year?
That that part of it is very, very surprising in jail and
Darden was a guy that they drafted this year. Ear that
they felt very good about. But it's these other guys and Tom,
Brady has to trust your he's not going to throw you
the football and he's got trust and guys that Grayson and we're
seeing some experiment. We definitely know it's there with
Evans. We know it's there with Gronk and Cameron brate, and OJ
Howard. You don't really see OJ Howard a whole lot anymore.
I don't remember his numbers from yesterday. But
Gronk is still there, which is good. He had over 100 yards
and Brady had over 400.
And Brady had three more touchdowns. You got
back-to-back, 40, touchdown Seasons. He's only the second
guy in NFL history to have three. Seasons of 40 or more
touchdown passes.
And he along with Drew Brees are the only ones to have
consecutive 40, touchdown, pass years and Brady has done it
the ages of 43 and 44. Now as Dubrow. No, one more thing.
You mentioned, the let's go podcast
and
I hope I assume they've probably already taped
the thing, but I hope that the Jim Gray,
the we get a little more of the Pete Rose,
Jim Gray and a little less of the LeBron. James, great, Jim Gray
in this. I mean,
Jim He has had an evolution not for the good. All due respect
in the last 20, 30 years. But and look, he's business
partners with Tom Brady
in this podcast. He's only going to push him so far,
but this would be a time
for. And like, this is this is what irritates me right now.
You have these guys who have their safe spaces, whether it's
Aaron Rodgers, with Pat McAfee, and a Jayhawk, or Tom. Brady
with Jim Gray. Oh, yeah. I got plenty to say to the media.
Yeah, as long as the person who's asking
me the questions isn't going to ask me questions. I'd rather
not answer tonight's the night. For Tom Brady to be asked
questions. He'd rather not answer
and we ain't going to get. I I would I would wager.
Many black eyed peas and a little crack
that we're not going to get,
you know, and if somebody's just tuning in there,
wondering, what the hell I'm talking about. Well, that's
what you get for being late. But I would wager a lot of
things of value that he's not going to get tough questions
tonight.
Yeah, I think you're probably right Mike and those questions
probably are formatted and he knows what they are ahead of
time and approves them. I mean, that's kind of the way it is
when they have these
off campus radio shows and other things that they do
podcast and. So I do hope that he's at least ask some
questions about it. Has he had
contact with a be
since he walked out and what will their relationship be
going forward? And what happened before a
His meltdown and and left the field. So all those are
relevant questions. They aren't hard questions for Tom, Brady
to answer.
So I hope that he does answer some of those questions and
fills in some of these blanks.
Hey, the point you made earlier back before he signed with
the Buccaneers. He was actually living with Tom. Brady, Brady
was making sure he stayed on the straight and narrow, right?
Bring him back in at this very fragile time in his football
life. As he
recovers from what happened yesterday. Wouldn't that be
a time to have him around all the time and make sure he's okay.
Okay, again, it's one thing to do it. When you have something
personally to gain. It's another thing to do it when you
have nothing
to gain and you're just doing it because it's the right thing
to do. And I'm trying to be sensitive antoniou Brown and
all this. Look. I'm not an antoniou Brown fan II think
that that a lot of times
what gets regarded as
you know, maybe he needs help is he's just a jerk and how do
you draw the line? And where is the distinction between a guy
who just doesn't have a very agreeable personality and a guy
who needs some sort of assistance,
but I think that if
That he that he has the same rights of every other NFL player
and they shouldn't manipulate him
to suit their own Ends by trying to paint him as somebody
who had some sort of a break if they pushed his buttons to make
it happen and wouldn't surprise me if the
the truth the whole truth and nothing. But the truth here was
that somebody pushed his buttons deliberately yesterday
to contribute to him doing what he automatically did. So, so
we've been checking the transactions here. Let me just
do one more check to see if they've come
through. None of the PFT writers are Telling us that
Antonio Brown was officially wave today. They could
just suspended without pay for conduct detrimental to
the team. They could do that. And keep him from Landing with
someone else. They made it clear yesterday is not going to
be part of the team. If and when they do wave him, and he
does pass through waivers
and he could be claimed. This is the obj thing all over
again. Somebody could claim his contract. If he goes unclaimed
then he could be signed
as a free agent.
And
yeah, I know there's so many people are like all it's done.
It's over it. Okay, come on, he's come back from far worse
than what he did yesterday, especially as we learn more
about it
and teams want to win and talent rules the day.
And I look at the Chiefs. Look, no farther than the Chiefs.
They've had Josh Gordon on the roster. Most of the year. He's
played in 11 games. He's got five catches for 32 yards.
Antonio Brown. Does that in his sleep?
I think the Chiefs in a heartbeat
would take antoniou Brown to be the guy that they've been
looking for across from Tyree kill just as they're getting
ready to go into a playoffs.
Stretch where they realize, hey the Bengals are no joke. The
Titans are no joke. The bills are no joke, the Buccaneers, if
we get to the Super Bowl again
are no joke, maybe we need. What? Antonio, Brown can bring
to the table,
and maybe we can keep him under control. And if we can't, we
just get rid of him. Plain and simple. I wouldn't be surprised
at all Shereen.
If the chiefs of the first team
who become officially linked to Antonio Brown,
Well, and it's a short-term commitment to Antonio Brown to.
I also thought obviously the Chiefs come to mind first, just
because they have a history of taking on players with trouble
pass
and you mentioned Josh Gordon, and he hasn't been that number
two, receiver that they've needed and wanted. And I also
thought of the Saints who haven't had Michael Thomas
Sawyer. I thought well, if they're going
to make a playoff run, they need another receiver and he
might be the Gigan, a short-term Commitment, if it
doesn't work out, you get rid of him right away.
Well, that's another team that came to mind for me, right
away. And I do have a question for you. My concerning
the contract and as it concerns to waivers,
he was really close to getting three 300 and well at least 2
of 2 of the 3 333333 dollar bonuses for caches in yards.
Now did those reset?
Or will he if a team picks up that contract? Does he just
pick up where he left off?
Picks up where you left off with the stats that are
generated this year, but the only game where he would have
a chance to get to those numbers would be week, 18, this one.
It wouldn't matter in the postseason and maybe
maybe the team that signs him could choose to rework things
and say we'll pay you
what you would have earned based upon performance in
the postseason. Adam schefter tweeted just a little bit ago
that the Buccaneers did not officially release Antonio
Brown. On today's wire.
There are ongoing discussions with the NFL about
How to move forward in this
situation. That tells me the thinking about finding a way to
have their cake and eat it too and that would be wrong that
would be wrong. If you're done with the guy, be done with him
let him go somewhere else.
Don't try to do this half measure
where he's not on your team but he's not able to play for
anyone else either and I know that as of last night
all they knew is he's not playing for us anymore. But if
they do the Terrell Owens thing where they suspended for four
games, for Conduct detrimental to the team
and essentially, and his 2021 season.
I think that would be unfair
to him
because if you're done with him, let him go somewhere else,
but I can understand what the Buccaneers want to do it
because you know what, maybe when it all hit the fan
yesterday. The only thing Tom Brady had to say is I better
not see that guy playing
for somebody else
that we face between now and Super Bowl 56 Shireen.
Well, and I mentioned the Saints. Mike what if he shows
up on the Saints, a team that has dominated Tom Brady in
the past, but couldn't beat the Buccaneers in the postseason.
What if he showed up on the Saints and played against
the box in the postseason? Wouldn't that be something?
Well, first, the Saints have to make it there and that would be
a reason for the Saints, the claimed on waivers. See and and
they were the team that brought him in remember a couple of
years ago
when he was in that weird. Sort of limbo, the NFL wouldn't tell
teams whether or not he was going to be put on
the commissioner exempt list after Released by the Patriots.
So he essentially served a 12 to 14 game unpaid suspension in
2019. The Saints brought him in at one point, but I also think
that the way he conducted himself when he visited
the Saints,
didn't rub folks there the right way. So maybe the Saints
wouldn't do it. But there's also that angle. It's the Deion
Sanders angle from way back in 2002
when
the Washington football team waved him from the reserve
retired list so that he could go join the Raiders.
Well, he had to pass through waivers
multiple teams made waivers claims including the Chargers
who were coached by Marty Schottenheimer. The guy who was
coaching, Washington the year before when Deion Sanders said,
I'm not playing for this guy,
Schottenheimer made the waivers claim to keep him from going to
the Raiders. So all it takes is even even a team that's not in
the hunt could claim him now
and he's done. That's it that that pulls the plug on his
opportunity to go
anywhere. He wants to go
and try to pursue a superb.
Also, whether it was the Steelers
who do it out of spite, the Raiders,
who would do it out of spite.
There's a long list of teams that may make a spite waivers claim
of Antonio Brown.
Yeah, there's no doubt Mike that there is some of that and
we ventured into the with the Giants claim Odell Beckham when
that happened and obviously it didn't happen. So those things
do happen in the NFL and it could happen if they waive him.
This week will
be interesting at what point they make this decision and
make this smooth, are going to make a move. We just don't know
what that move is right now.
Yeah, and we'll find out and really, I don't like it if
they're going to squat on him for strategic reasons because
they don't want him to play for someone else. But you know
what, they may have the right to try to do that under
the collective bargaining agreement and they could slow everything
down to the point
where by the time it gets resolved.
It's too late for anyone to bring him on board and and have
him. Be a contributor for the