AJ Brown. The Titans receiver second round, or from Ole Miss.
He and DK Metcalf
coming out of Mississippi, the same, bam year, the same damn
time in the same damn round round two. How did everybody
miss on? Both of these guys. As first rounders?
Hey Patriots, you took the kill Harry,
AJ Brown and adk Metcalf. We're just waiting to be snatched
by. By any NFL team, so the Titans got AJ Brown. They're
very happy with AJ Brown. AJ. Brown is not happy with this
contract.
So he's not there for the start of the offseason program.
Voluntary. It's lifting and running folks. Yeah, big deal.
Relax the lifting and running. Look at AJ Brown. He's done
plenty of lifting and running. He'll be fine. Doing it on his
own for a little while.
But what happens, AJ Brown goes to Twitter.
He's already being called a diva in a bad teammate by all
the haters out there and don't don't don't get it. Look.
I it's so funny
when we talked the other day.
About the Devo, Samuel death threats. In the racist
comments. He was getting. I saw some folks. All these aren't
real 49ers fans, real 49ers fans. What, get the hell out of
here with that. That's how the realest fans are.
They want to protect their fandom. They want their players
to be there. There were, rational fan is short for
fnatic. So yes, if people are making death threats to demos
Samuel, they are 49ers Fanatics. At least some of
them. And if people are calling a j.a.
Brown, add even a bad teammate. They are Titans
fanatics. Yes, that's how it works.
They're obsessed with everything being in place.
Let's and I understand it, right. You want our guys
healthy. When are you guys happy? And if they're unhappy,
there's this knee-jerk belief.
It's your fault player.
You're being greedy. You're being
wait for it. Chris.
Selfish. Ha, ha ha.
Yeah, it's it is ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
Let's try to put it in context for people.
I mean here we got a guy, you talked about it. He's So called
freak. He's first off in shape and I don't think this is
the kind of guy that just goes sits on the
home. Sits on the couch in each Doritos, for a living. He loves
it. He likes working out everything. You hear that way.
This is
his pride and joy.
All right. So now
I mean, AJ Brown, I don't think anybody
would in their right mind would look at AJ brown or watch
football the last two years ago. That's not one of the best
receivers and football. I'm not saying he's the number one, but
like we talked about a lot in the conversation, right? Mike.
I think we could go around the NFL. Fell and reasonable minds
and and people that way and head coaches are going to AJ
Brown. Aye, he's my pick or whatever. He's right there.
He's making four million dollars a year.
Okay. It's absolutely ridiculous for a guy like AJ
Brown and be making four million dollars a year. And I'm
getting back to it here, just because I got some things
pulled up on the computer
and then you have guys wear.
Again, DeAndre Hopkins, 27, DeAndre Hopkins, 27 million
dollars a year. I know it's a funny number average salary.
I'm just going off of that, right? Mike for
the conversation. I'm taking AJ Brown over DeAndre Hopkins
every day of the week. And I think DeAndre Hopkins is awesome.
I'm I'm also put taking him over Davante Adams as well.
I'm sorry. Davante Adams a great football player. He can't
do it. AJ Brown can do he can't run, catch Slants
and then break seven tackles and run up the sideline for 80
yards and do all that stuff. He can't just run by you forgo
route touchdowns and beat you in 50-yard bombs. So he has
every right, let alone like like Debo Samuel. Like we
talked about
He pays a physical brand of football
and he does everything right. So it's time. The time is now
and some of these fans just need to shut up.
Yeah, look, they'll get the deal done. This is a very basic
exercise and
exerting The Leverage that you have. This is how it works. You
don't have to do it. You're not doing it. It's voluntary.
You're not volunteering to be there until you they get you
taken
care of properly. Will see that throughout the league. This
year and every year. So folks, let's not get mad at guys who
are trying to secure
their financial future and get Fair return for what their
football present is. You get, maybe two opportunities. If
you're lucky to cash in during the course of an NFL career,
maybe
the original contract, doesn't matter. Unless you're the first
or second guy taken, when you're a second-round pick your
slotted. You're not getting horrible money, but it's not
nearly as good as people think. I mean, everybody thinks it
like football players, the money's Fallen.
Um, the sky and life is easy. And yeah, I know, it's baloney.
That's baloney. So, I mean, you could die
as Chris almost found out. Yeah. In 2006. Maybe that's
what happened to your filter. Maybe your filter is right next
to your spleen, whatever jar that thing that's stuck in.
But, but I digress,
let's understand that. These are the guys that you tuned in
to watch. These are the guys who are the best of the very
best. I had someone try to argue to me recently, you know,
back in 1987. There was a I can they replace the NFL players
and they were wearing the same uniforms and we
would have gotten used to it.
No you. Well, you wouldn't it suck. I was watching. I was
seven and it sucked now. I
remember why where's my dad.
So now these are the best of the best. This is why we tune
in.
And yes, the NFL wouldn't be there if the owners hadn't
created the teams and founded the teams, and the teams and
have the stadiums in the structure. It's not easy to do,
but at this point it's easy. They've done all the heavy
lifting. Lifting at this point is just sit back and print
money off of the labor of the best of the best. And those
guys need to get paid. Why do we get mad at them? I'm
not and there's plenty to go around. That's right. It's this
crazy to it's just as funny. How like the fan base becomes
protective of the owners money. And then like you said, it's
like extra,
you know money off the top. It's icing on the cake that you
instead of like having a fully gold toilet on their yacht.
They just kind of a gold seat. I mean that's, that's, that's
always. So
that's where I Don't understand the fans in that aspect, but
like, really, I mean, you look at the topper Tyree kill.
I think we both think the world of him and how special he is,
because of the
crazy stuff. He can do on the football field.
You could make a case that AJ Brown
is the next best receiver in football,
along with DK, Metcalf and Debo Samuel.
Now, though, that to me, that's my cup of tea.
As far as those guys, that wide receiver, you know, that
Michael because they can do system. Plus they can do more
than the system, asks it.
Not all. I know, it might not be quite the precise route,
running Davante Adams does, but it doesn't matter because they
make up it with greater physical ability. And then
they,
you know, can do so much after the catch. And that's where,
you know, a guy like AJ brown, man. I feel his pain and he
should be making somewhere in the twenty six. Twenty seven,
twenty eight million dollar a year average salary at
the receiver position. In my opinion,
will see what they work out. If they work it out. They need to
work it out and we need collectively to understand
that. Just because a guy is staying away from the first
week of offseason program. Does not mean the sky is falling.
It does not mean he's not going to be there Week 1.
It does not mean, he is personally coming to your house
and throwing eggs. At you. Don't get mad at the player who
is doing the thing. That is aimed at taking care of
himself,
his family and his future. If he was your son, if he was your
brother, if he was your nephew, if he was your cousin, if he
was your
friend, if he was your next-door neighbor, your
attitude would be You do what you need to do.
They have theirs. You get yours.
Period. So folks, let's just quit being assholes. I said it
let's just stop it.
Let's take a step back. We become
to a certain extent. A nation of buttholes. I won't say it
a second time. The first time, it just kind of
It kind of flew out the filter Chris and I are bad for each
other or good for each other's. The case may be, but let's take
a step back and, you know,
not give everybody a hard time because
they're doing something that might in some tiny little
A disrupt. Our overall enjoyment of our sport, maybe
make us worry about whether or not a team is going to be as
good as it can be.
Let's understand that these guys need to get what they can
get. This isn't College. This isn't High School. This is for
profit
with everybody. Making a ton of money
with the salary cap going up all the time. The only time
I see the hand-wringing about how much players are making, it's
like, but the salary cap keeps going up, the salary cap keeps
going up
and up and up. So, yes, this will happen. There were
eventually will.
Be a quarterback making a hundred million dollars a year.
Yes, that will happen. And when there's a quarterback Makin A
hundred million a year. This could be an owner
making a billion a year
and there's going to be other players,
making ridiculous amounts of money.
It happens. That's the way it works in a popular sport that
grows every year. That is finding all these new revenue
streams
that is getting so much money from gambling. They expect to
get a billion a year in free money from gambling. By the end
of the decade. It is going to cause
it's the most popular sport.
The country by far, it's the one thing that can pour
together. 20 to 30 million people at any given time to
watch football or anything for three hours, right? It is
immensely powerful and from that the people involved will
get paid. So don't get pissed off when they do. I know
it's the greatest money. It's the greatest money machine Sports.
You know, what are you league? And the world and not just
the American America. I mean, it's the world. It says nobody can
compete with it. None of the soccer leagues. Nothing.
So there's plenty to go around to your point and it's what
I tell people all the time because I always have people
come up to the bet, you know, to me and have
these conversations. Like when I'm at the gym, I'm doing
a workout or whatever and there's always something like this.
Another reason to never leave the house.
Yeah, but it it's just, it's i-i'm
always dumbfounded by it. And in the one thing I always try
to explain to them is exactly what you're saying is just,
hey, hey, the owners made it like this first.
This is They made it this business and this Cutthroat,
and of course, hey, it's the game. And I know it's agreed on
by both sides, but
you can't be mad and, you know, I lead the examples. You talk
about all the time. I'll you, underperformed. Hey, we're
going to rip up your contract. We're going to cut you. Oh, you
overperformed.
Oh, wait, hold on.
What were you want more money? Well, that's crazy. And then
the fan base has backlash. I don't understand it. So,
and AJ Brown does everything right for that team and you
could see he's a real team guy. Think about what he did off /.
It's offseason
begging for Julio Jones to come there.
A guy that's going to take some of his catches, but he knows
the team's going to be better. He's everything like Mike,
Vrabel said, last week that you want in your locker room. So
they want to pay him.
So why wouldn't the fans want to back the coaches and go, you
know, if they want to pay them, I should want to pay him to
this hell of a case, study to be done on how that came to be.
Did it just happen organically. How complicit was the media in
creating this resentment of players.
It's something that's been going on.
Very long time and
we'll see how it goes. But our our,
our role, our task
our mission. In these situations is to get people to
understand, these guys got to get paid. They're the ones that
are out there. Putting
their bodies on the line.
Limiting the years. They can play football accepting risks,
that may affect them
later in life in a cognitive way.
And they're the reason we're tuning in to watch them
play
at Their level with their skill and all the work they put in to
maintain and Achieve that level of skill. It's not just
god-given ability.
It's what the individual does to get the absolute most out of
it. You don't roll out of bed. You
you've got to put the work in. All right.