Crimson Warrior
Dangerous Murray Zealot
Well, Brown missed a game because he walked out of practice, no-showed an MRI, no-showed for several days, then showed up on game day expecting to play but was denied. And this was THE most important game of the season: win and you may be in, lose and you're out. It devastated team morale and they played like caca poo poo.
AB is routinely late to meetings, goes ballistic on the sidelines when the ball isn't forced to him, and is on record that he's "Team AB". He doesn't even care about win-loss record, as long as he puts up his numbers. He isn't in the least a good teammate.
Actually, a 4th or 5th pick might be the MOST you'll get from them. Ed Bouchette is on the record here in the 'Burgh as having heard from NFL execs who quoted somewhere around a 5th for him, and that was before he bid Pittsburgh goodbye and starting making contract noises. More on that later. AB is making his own life more miserable day by day, making his trade value go down exponentially.
Yeah, no way in hell you'll have AB for $14 mill per season. He's already gone on record that he'll want to re-negotiate his deal after the trade. Think he'll not want a league record contract for WRs? Think he won't want to break the bank.
And in what world do we have both Brown and OBJ? Put down the crack pipe, my friend
No it doesn't. That got debunked a month or more ago. Closer to $7 mill in dead money.
No doubt Big Ben talks more on his radio show about other players than he should, and that he isn't the leader he could be in the locker room. Still, he's the star QB, and a WR is never going to outshine that. Bell? The Steelers bear some blame there, but there isn't the animosity toward him that there is toward AB. Bell wasn't under contract, and it's purely a business decision. Not the case with AB.
This all kicked off with AB when JuJu Smith-Schuster (sp?) was named team MVP. All his elevated antics began shortly after that happened, and have escalated mightily in the interim. He's a giant baby who just can't handle having another good receiver on the roster recognized ahead of him. Actually, that may be unfair. If he's seriously mentally ill, and falls into one of the personality clusters, as I suspect he does, he truly needs help. He has the money to get it, but not the wherewithal.
Lots of troubling stuff there. Thanks for posting Stout.
Why are wide-receivers the most koo koo of all position groups?
We've been pretty lucky, although Quan was a little out there, and David Boston was kind of a different cat.
But Terrell Owens, OBJ, Brown, Josh Gordon, Randy Moss, Dez Bryant, Michael Irving.. and that's a few off the top of my head, I'm sure there are some crazies that I missed. What is it about the WR spot that attracts those that are a little unhinged?
