Buccaneers (still) receiver Antonio Brown stayed silent (for the most part) until last night. Now, he’s saying plenty about the disintegration of his relationship with the team.
Among the disintegrated relationships? The one that brought him to Tampa in the first place, the connection to quarterback Tom Brady.
A Thursday morning social-media barrage from AB included the sharing of text messages with Alex Guerrero, Tom Brady’s friend, partner, and trainer. It began with Brown requesting on the morning of Christmas Eve half of a $100,000 fee that Brown previously paid to Guerrero, “if we not going to work any more.” Guerrero responded politely and almost cheerfully, offering to “send the balance.”
Brown added this observation on Twitter: “Imagine your QB trainer charges you 100k then doing no work must be was a part of these guys plans all along.”
In other words, Brown is suggesting that Brady and Guerrero wanted to recruit Brown to the Buccaneers because they viewed him as someone who could be targeted for excessive fees charged by the TB12 operation.
It's unreal how self-destructive this guy is. He can't help but bite the hand that feeds him. Brady seemed like a friend. (I'm pretty skeptical of Guerrero, but there's no need to call out TB12 publicly.)
I'm almost certain everyone on the Bucs (including Arians) didn't want AB but Brady did everything to keep him on the team and also let him stay at his residence for some time when he was settling.
He's got to be done in the NFL now. I mean, what team would want him anymore??
Such a shame too. No question the guy's got talent.
Also, there's a rumor that Skip Bayless started but it seems that it was true as other well-sourced reporters have said the same or confirmed. AB was upset at the lack of targets while Gronk seemed to get a lot of them against the Jets. Keep in mind, in PIT it seemed AB started to really spiral further when JuJu came up the rankings and seemed to threaten his #1 status on the team's offense. AB's got mental issues but he also seems very insecure about his role and targets too. Like to an extreme level.
