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MTZehvor on 05 January 2020
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Shaunodon said:
MTZehvor said:

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?

This is almost wholly unrelated to what I said, but all right.

The league can and would most definitely place someone on the exempt list if he was in New England. If you legitimately think the NFL, the organization that suspended a player for four games, took a first round draft pick and fined the Patriots hundreds of thousands of dollars for underinflated footballs that can be adequately explained by a drop in temperature, would somehow be too afraid to put a Patriots player on the exempt list just because he's with New England currently or because they don't have sufficient evidence, then you have a very interesting view of the NFL to be sure.