Posted on 01/02/2022 1:07:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
The wide receiver left following an outburst on the sideline
Antonio Brown has left the building.
In one of the strangest moments of the NFL season, the Buccaneers wide receiver abruptly removed his shoulder pads and undershirt and jogged to the locker room at MetLife Stadium during the third quarter of Tampa Bay's Week 17 matchup with the New York Jets.
Here's video of the scene, which shows Brown stripping off his pads, throwing his undershirt and gloves into the stands, and running toward the locker room in the middle of the game while the Bucs were on offense.
Brown, who had three catches for 26 yards on five targets at the time, apparently "boiled over" and was "very upset" on the sideline, according to FOX sideline reporter Jen Hale.
Hale reported that Mike Evans and O.J. Howard tried to convince Brown to keep his shoulder pads on before he made his sudden exit. Here's another angle of the incident filmed by a fan in the stands.
It appears head coach Bruce Arians benched Brown, which led to the former New England Patriots wide receiver's outburst.
We'll update this article with more information as it becomes available.
No it isn’t. In the NFL it’s a commonly used threshold to weed out statistical aberations. They talk about completion percentages but only for QBs that have thrown at least 100 passes to get rid of that 3rd stringer that came in one game threw twice and both completed. For coaches it means you have an actual body of work of over 5 seasons.
The simple fact of the matter is Tomlin is a great coach. He’s never had a season under 500 (thought this year might break that), made the playoffs 9 out of 14 years, SB twice, won it once. Yeah things have been a little rough with an antique at QB, but they’re still holding together. There’s simply nothing fireable in that record. And it gets better when you look at how mediocre so many ex-Steelers are when they wind up elsewhere. He’s clearly getting results from players other coaches can’t.
Now you wanna actually try to DISCUSS that?
He’d had a couple of incidents, but nothing too nuts. Yeah.
Since the NFL merger in 1970, the Pittsburgh Steelers have compiled a regular-season record of 444–282–2 (.635)
Tomlin’s record today is 160–93–2 (.627)
Last 4 years .586
Postseason:8–8 (.500)
Hasn’t won a playoff game in 5 years
Tomlin is a below average Steeler coach.
Give it up,...it’s over. Sad.
Oh please both Knoll and Cowher had stretches like that, one of the things that marks the Steelers as a good organization is they aren’t quick on the hook, they understand the game can be random. Heck even the mighty Belichick had a stretch of bad for him.
Tomlin’s an excellent QB. I’m not giving it up. You are sad.
I thought Brown/Bucs should have drawn an unsportsmanlike foul for that stuff he did.
He’s done in football, should have found a better psychologist.
Brady asks for compassion
Translated....Brady is speaking so his mostly black teammates hear him
So, Tomlin’s wins are random. Got it.
If he were White, there’d at least be talk about moving him out. But saying that about a Black NFL coach is touching the 3rd rail.
Nothing bizarre about it… he is who he is… pissed he wasn’t getting what he wanted and quit in the most public way possible…. This is par for the course for this guy…
Never said that at all. Quality of the roster goes up and down. In this case the Steelers management made a big mistake they historically avoid. They usually cut old players early, when they’ve still got a couple good years left so the team isn’t stuck holding them when the tank is empty. They didn’t do that with Ben. They should have dropped him 4 years ago. Or he should have retired. But they didn’t, and they gave him a big contract that if they had cut him would have put a lot of dead money against the cap. Overpay for an old guy and you get a thin team. But Tomlin still managed to start last year with 12 wins even though EVERYBODY knew the team wasn’t that god.
No he wouldn’t. Again. Cowher went 7-9 three years running and nobody was talking about dumping him. And let’s not forget Knoll’s run in the 80s. As for Black coaches getting fired, happens all the time, it’s not a 3rd rail. Don’t know why you’re obsessed with injecting race into it. Very leftist. Very sad.
You’re a liar
I am not a liar. And I did not call you a name. And I don’t have to drop to threats in PM.
So, now that all you’ve got is silliness we both recognize you’re simply wrong, and not man enough to admit it.
in person pos otherwise you are a coward yellow cur dog
Oh look threats. Yup, you’re pathetic.
Black teammates or teammates with bipolar? I’m struggling to see what this has to do with being black.
pos
What’s hilarious about this is I have no idea what you’re so wound up about. I said nothing untrue. I said nothing offensive or insulting. All of a sudden you’re all mad and playing internet tough guy and I got nothing. Except giggles. You’re really quite funny when you’re mad about absolutely nothing.
Perhaps Tomlin was an enabler.
Nah, the crazy really started in his last season in Pittsburgh. He did occasionally annoying things like live streaming from the locker room after a game. But the whacky stuff resulted in him being traded. The funny part was everybody thought they got jobbed in the trade cause it was like a 6th rounder, but then he didn’t even play a down for the Raiders. So that was a win.
I bet it was the hit from Vontaze Burfuit.
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