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Shaunodon on 05 January 2020
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MTZehvor said:
Shaunodon said:

Which is what makes giving up on AB after a few stupid texts all the more dumb. But you'll never see eye-to-eye on that; fact is, he never did anything else close to controversial while with the Pats, but apparently they drew the line right there, after not even two weeks. And along with it went the season.


It would've been one thing if the locker room wanted nothing to do with him, but as we've already established that was literally the opposite case. And if the league was gonna enforce a suspension on him  (even after still not finding anything to this day), then obviously there's nothing that can be done there.


But no. Instead of fighting to keep him until something untenable like that happened, they just got rid of him after less than two weeks of bad press. How can you honestly say they really tried their best? Seems like a big joke to me.

You truly cannot let this go, can you?

What he did while with the Patriots isn't the exclusive end all be all. It's also relevant if he undertook...let's charitably call it "controversial"...actions that the Patriots didn't know about beforehand. If New England is to be believed, that is the case.

Losing AB sucks from a talent standpoint, sure. But his actions speak for themselves. I'm not going to say much more about him as I've already made my position abundantly clear on the type of person he is and why I wasn't especially excited about him being brought on board in the first place. In regards to the Patriots, however, given that literally no other team has taken a chance on AB since New England, the case that the Pats are somehow being worse about this than everyone else is shaky at best.

Antonio Brown wasn't on any other team when this investigation started. Only reason the league can threaten to place him on the exempt list is because the Pats already ousted him, losing him the benefit of the doubt immediately. How were they gonna justifty just suspending him from active duty while still on a team, when they haven't even come up with any evidence yet?