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NFL 2021 season - Belichick Strikes Back

Antonio Brown released a statement saying the Bucs forced him to play on an injured ankle that will require surgery, and this outburst was a mental health issue.

The full statement:

"First of all, I'd like to express my gratitude to the Bucs, fans, and my teammates. The Bucs helped me return to productive football after I had difficulties that could have ended my career. We worked together to resolve those difficulties, and I will always appreciate that. Being part of a Super Bowl champion team and then a contender is a dream come true.

"I make mistakes. I'm working on myself and I have positive influences around me. But one thing I don't do is shy away from playing hard on the field. No one can accuse me of not giving it my all every play.

"Because of my commitment to the game, I relented to pressure directly from my coach to play injured. Despite the pain, I suited up, the staff injected me with what I now know was a powerful and sometimes dangerous painkiller that the NFLPA has warned against using, and I gave it my all for the team. I played until it was clear that I could not use my ankle to safely perform my playing responsibilities. On top of that, the pain was extreme. I took a seat on the sideline and my coach came up to me, very upset, and shouted, 'What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?' I told him, 'It's my ankle.' But he knew that. It was well-documented and we had discussed it. He then ordered me to get on the field. I said, 'Coach, I can't.' He didn't call for medical attention. Instead, he shouted at me, 'YOU'RE DONE!' while he ran his finger across his throat. Coach was telling me that if I didn't play hurt, then I was done with the Bucs.

"I didn't quit. I was cut. I didn't walk away from my brothers. I was thrown out. Being fired on the sideline for having a painful injury was bad enough. Then came their 'spin.' Coach denied on national television that he knew about my ankle. That's 100% inaccurate. Not only did he know I missed several games with the injury, he and I exchanged texts days before the game where he clearly acknowledged my injury. He obviously knew I was on the injury list. And the GM acknowledged after the game in text messages to my camp that I did tell coach about my ankle pain on Sunday.

"I know we were losing to the Jets and that was frustrating for all of us. But I could not make football plays on that ankle. Yes, I walked off the field. But there's a major difference between launching from the line and taking hits, compared to jogging off the field with a rush of emotions going through your mind. I am reflecting on my reaction, but there was a trigger. The trigger was someone telling me that I'm not allowed to feel pain. I acknowledge my past. But my past does not make me a second class citizen. My past does not forfeit my right to be heard when I am in pain.

"First they cut me. Now they cage me. Instead of asking how I felt or getting to the bottom of it, the team texted my camp promoting a totally false narrative that I randomly acted out without any explanation. They even told us in writing 'don't spin this' any other way. I have stress, I have things I need to work on. But the worst part of this has been the Bucs' repeated effort to portray this as a random outburst. They are telling people that first I walked off, then I was cut. No. No. No. I was cut first and then I went home. They threw me out like an animal and I refused to wear their brand on my body, so I took my jersey off.

"As part of their ongoing cover-up, they are acting like I wasn't cut and now demanding that I see a doctor of their choice to examine my ankle. What they did not know until now is that on Monday morning I had an urgent MRI on my ankle. It shows broken bone fragments stuck in my ankle, the ligament torn from the bone, and cartilage loss, which are beyond painful. You can see the bone bulging from the outside. But that must and can be repaired. The MRI has been read by two top orthopedic surgeons in NYC, including Dr. Martin O'Malley at Hospital for Special Surgery. Not realizing that I had already scheduled a surgery at HSS, the Bucs 'ordered' me under penalty of discipline and with a few hours' notice to show up to a more junior doctor at HSS for another opinion. What a joke. They're playing like I wasn't cut, giving me a surprise attack 'order' to show up to another doctor with no reasonable notice, and setting this whole thing up as a basis to cut me because what they did on Sunday was not legitimate. Sorry, GM. I already received a confirming opinion from the Top Doc at the hospital you 'ordered' me to go to.

"I love the Bucs fans. I really do. I love my teammates and everyone who showed me grace and believed in me. I gave the Bucs everything I had on the field. What the organization is doing now needs to get cleaned up. I do not understand how people publicly claiming to be concerned about my mental health can do these things to me in private.

"Once my surgery is complete, I'll be back to 100% and looking forward to next season. Business gonna be BOOMIN!"
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Aragorn said:
Bengals sitting Mixon (Covid) and Burrow (injury) Sunday. So it'll be Brandon Allen vs. Case Keenum, get your popcorn now!
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Aragorn said:
Antonio Brown released a statement saying the Bucs forced him to play on an injured ankle that will require surgery, and this outburst was a mental health issue.

The full statement:
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And of course the Bucs say just the opposite. There could be BS on both sides, but I'll bet AB is full of much more of it.

He can always get someone to make a fake medical card for him. That's his MO lately.
 
The No. 7 seed Eagles have clinched a playoff spot. The No. 6 seed 49ers have not. This is due to tiebreakers and the Saints.
 
Did you know that, after the AAF and XFL, there's another spring football league starting this year? And they got the rights to the USFL. Todd Haley (Tampa Bay Bandits), Kevin Sumlin (Houston Gamblers), Mike Riley (New Jersey Generals) and Bart Andrus (Philadelphia Stars) have been announced as the first four of eight head coaches. The remaining teams are the Michigan Panthers, Pittsburgh Maulers, Birmingham Stallions and New Orleans Breakers.
 
Seems like it's hard enough to keep one non-NFL league running. The XFL & CFL were considering a merger or partnership that fell through, but there needs to be something like that to ensure success.

It was cool watching XFL games a couple years ago in February and March though.
 
I remember watching Bart Andrus for his season in the CFL with the Toronto Argonauts and he literally had no idea what he was doing.
 
Ar-Pharazon said:
Seems like it's hard enough to keep one non-NFL league running. The XFL & CFL were considering a merger or partnership that fell through, but there needs to be something like that to ensure success.

It was cool watching XFL games a couple years ago in February and March though.
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The sheer volume of players, coaches and staff on a football team is expensive. You could fund multiple teams that play in those various lower-level soccer and basketball leagues for the same price.

But the biggest issue for American spring football is how mediocre the quarterbacks are because that does not make for exciting viewing.

The AAF did give us this though:
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Aragorn said:
The sheer volume of players, coaches and staff on a football team is expensive. You could fund multiple teams that play in those various lower-level soccer and basketball leagues for the same price.

But the biggest issue for American spring football is how mediocre the quarterbacks are because that does not make for exciting viewing.

The AAF did give us this though:
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That's a thing I've argued with other people about, the NFL not having an actual minor league level (unless you count the NFC East ;)).

Some argue that the NFL uses college football as a sort of "free" minor league, but I don't get that assessment. It's not like they can send a player back down to the "minors", the only option is to cut the player. Practice squads are the closest thing, but much more limited.

@Tiny Timby what's your take on this?
 
Arena football had prominence once, but the Arena Football League ran themselves into the ground.

There are a few indoor leagues throughout the country, but nothing big enough to where they could have one big league across the country. Stadium shows delayed broadcasts of one of the leagues.
 
Fresh off his release from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, wide receiver Antonio Brown had a lot to say Friday, airing out his frustrations on everything from how the Buccaneers handled his ankle injury last Sunday to his relationship with Tom Brady not being one he felt was genuine, but more out of a shared interest in winning.

"To me, a friend is someone who's got your back," Brown said on the "Full Send Podcast" Friday. "Not everybody in sports is going to be your friend. Tom Brady's my friend why? Because I'm a good football player. He needs me to play football. People have different meanings of what friendship is."

Brown's comments about Brady were a sharp deviation from what he's said in the past, likening the seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback to a "big brother" and called him a "role model," after Brady twice invited Brown to move in with him, when they were with the New England Patriots and in Tampa Bay.
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No surprise at all here. Tom Terrific bent over backwards to vouch for this idiot, yet alla sudden he's not AB's friend because he didn't shield him from his own latest round of stupidity.

AB needs to...
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Aragorn said:
But the biggest issue for American spring football is how mediocre the quarterbacks are because that does not make for exciting viewing.

The AAF did give us this though:
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Jesus. How long was he planning on holding onto that football? I'll never understand why so many guys hang onto their primary read for so long. You only have 2-3 seconds back there on most plays. Read the defense and move onto the second and third receivers, or toss it to your hot read.
 
BillJ said:
Jesus. How long was he planning on holding onto that football? I'll never understand why so many guys hang onto their primary read for so long. You only have 2-3 seconds back there on most plays. Read the defense and move onto the second and third receivers, or toss it to your hot read.
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If it was that easy I would be Tom Brady or..maybe Joe Namath. ;)
 
BillJ said:
I imagine if you did it everyday for a good portion of your life, you’d at least be able to get to the second read.
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Who did you play for? and who made up your offensive line so you didn't have to have your eyes dancing. It's easy from the Cheap seats eating a bucket of wings..
 
Worf factor9 said:
Who did you play for? and who made up your offensive line so you didn't have to have your eyes dancing. It's easy from the Cheap seats eating a bucket of wings..
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Don’t play that game. You don’t have to play to understand the game.
 
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