antonio brown

He's done. That has never happened before people will notice. Not to hard to replace 500 yards receiving.

On a side note it's sad that we are at a place in time where there needs to be an excuse for everyone and their behavior. I have seen so many posts about his actions and all the codling of him it's unreal. Maybe the guy has problems. He's also 34 and knows right from wrong. Personally I think he's just a huge a**hole and that's his problem.

We had a kid do something very similar in practice a couple years back. He knew he was on thin ice and used that as his opportunity to leave on his own terms...it was a bummer for a number of reasons (we all wanted the kid to succeed) but we were better off without him at that point.

Had a kid do this with :36 left in the first half of our playoff game my first year as a HC in 2005. Peeled his jersey and pads off, threw the. at my feet in the huddle and walked off.

Superintendent came up to us at halftime with the kid in tow and asked if I'd let him play the second half. The kid never raised his eyes off the ground. I said no. Super said I should "Strongly reconsider". I said no again. I was fired as HC of Football and Wrestling and as a teacher the next March.

Later found out the super went out to the kid's mom's car and told him that he'd get him back on the field.

After seeing the highlight of the Brown incident, my wife goes "I wonder if Tampa's superintendent tried to get him back on the team?"

Could there be a connection to the Burfict hit?

Possibly, can't know for sure.

Would think if one such hit could do it we would have seen similar behavior from other players previously.

Or maybe Brown is just an amoral narcissist.

Kudos to you for standing your ground, my friend, did my heart good to read that

side story

we had a kid about 15 years ago

like week 3

in the middle of practice

just went nuts, started cussing, threw his shoulder pads and helmet off and started walking off


one of our young coaches was like hey "jimmy come back"

jimmy said "nah coach" with the cutting motion across throat "don't bother"

jimmy kept walkin....

yeah


bye

We lost a tight game a few years ago. The team scored a go-ahead touchdown on a fade with about 40 seconds left on the clock. One of the CBs (opposite of the cat who gave up the score) stormed off the field, dumped his pads and walked to the locker room. He was still sitting there when the team walked in after the game. I didn't have to say anything to him; senior captain beat me to it.

"Get the hell out of here, chicken chit."

He left and we never saw him again.

I don't agree with that. From the time he entered the league in 2010 until his last year with the Steelers, he was a superstar and a fan favorite and a great teammate by all accounts. But, something clearly slipped around 2015 or 2016. That's when his behavior started to become erratic. The first incident I remember that made me wonder about him was when he live-streamed Mike Tomlin's locker room speech the week before the AFC Championship Game. That was a shocking violation of team protocol. And since then, his behavior has become much worse.

Maybe the Burfict hit happening about the same time is just a coincidence. The thing is, if he DOES have CTE and that is what is causing these incidents, "getting him help" probably won't do much. There's no cure for CTE. I'm not sure what could be done to mitigate his behaviors. Brown reminds me a lot of what happened to Justin Strzelcyzk. That ended really badly. I hope if Brown is headed that way that he doesn't take anyone with him.

There is a saying about arguing with people on the internet and this (not here but twitter and other places) is a prime example of how the hysteria over CTE has warped peoples minds.  People are posting like you just catch CTE like a cold, one instance and BAM you have CTE!  

Personally I think he's just an A-hole and his rise to super star warped him and led him down this path.  It was also right around that time when he was getting his big pay day and exploding in popularity.  Some people can't handle that and surround them selves with bad people and make bad decisions.

Society wants and answer for everything and something to deflect blame from people now days.  Some people are just bad people and A-holes as I have said period point blank.  Look at this guys history hes a wack job and no one should be shocked by what he did.

The only way I see that hit on AB affecting him as quickly as people argue it did is if to deal with the severity of the concussion he started using something to numb the pain. Otherwise, it isn't CTE. There's guys out of the league 15 years just starting to feel effects.

A lot of people want to draw parallels from AB to Aaron Hernandez, but Hernandez was a experimenting with the "life" even back in HS. His dad's death probably had more to do with his descent than CTE did at that immediate time.

He’s always had a pattern of such behavior, at least since college. The Steelers are said to have put up with a lot and kept a ton of this type of behavior under wraps.

Based on numerous things that have been said about him, I’d doubt this is CTE from a single tough hit. The guy seems to have a mental
Illness of some kind. I believe he has said something about having a personality disorder in the past.

People with Borderline Personality Disorder tend to show a lot of the same selfish, childish, and volatile behavior that AB has become known for. Essentially, they have the emotional development of a neglected toddler but in an adult’s body with an adult’s intellect. When things don’t go their way, they tend to flip out, throw tantrums and do self destructive stuff (like provoke petty fights and take advantage of others) to get attention and manipulate others. Since AB always feels like the victim in these episodes, that also goes with potential BPD or even NPD.

Personality disorders like BPD are some of the hardest mental health conditions to treat. There is no cure and for improvement they essentially need to be “re-parented” over several years by a very good therapist to develop emotional awareness and self control. As you might imagine, that is a hard sell for someone who is extremely immature and impatient, which BPD patients are. For a multi-millionaire pro athlete who’s used to being shielded from the consequences of his behavior (which is about the WORST thing you can do for someone with BPD) , that’s probably not going to happen.

As for AB’s career, he’s only gotten this far because he was freakishly talented and productive so people kept giving him extra chances. He was arguably the best WR in the league for much of his career. Now he’s a 34 year old WR who seems to have lost a step and only had 500 yards receiving as his team’s #2 receiver. That’s not exactly worth the headaches, especially after this. Someone might make him an offer for a low amount, which he will almost surely balk at. I don’t see him returning to the league again.

I don't think he developed CTE from one hit, but that may have been the straw that broke the camels back. Imo this is definitely a personality disorder that has been exasperated by something (could be a lot of things: CTE, substance issues, etc).

No whatever his problem is its not an excuse for his behavior, it may be a contributing factor but he's still responsible for his actions. Society seems to want to place blame on the condition and not the individual and that's BS.

Idk if he will get another shot or not, an outburst in practice or the locker room is one thing but in the middle of a game is another.

The follow up to my previous post would be that there is no way that kid had taken enough hits to have developed CTE, could he have had some mental issues, most definitely. I don't think that should excuse the behavior but it should be looked into and that starts at home, from there the people who are around them should step in and you would think with the resources that an NFL team would have at their disposal this could be addressed especially with the amount of money these teams put into these players.