All I have to say is this: KEVIN COLBERT FLEECED MIKE MAYOCK WITH THIS ANTONIO BROWN TRADE!
All I have to say is this: KEVIN COLBERT FLEECED MIKE MAYOCK WITH THIS ANTONIO BROWN TRADE!
This was damaged goods. Maybe he was worth $100 per share but he devalued himself and worked his way out of town to get a new contract. While at the time I didn't like the return, hindsight shows this was the correct move. Shame the Bills trade fell apart for us or we'd have had even more in return. AB self destructed and caused all this. I have no doubt in my mind that he has CTE with this erratic behavior.
You don't think they had him somewhat in check until he felt slighted by Juju winning team MVP and Ben dressing him down after Denver?
I still think this was a good deal for the Raiders. They gave up very little to get AB. Yes, they gave him a new contract but they had plenty of money so even if AB is a total bust after a season and they decide to cut him, it won’t kill their cap.
The Raiders 2 biggest priorities are building buzz for a move to Vegas and finding out if Carr is the franchise QB. AB helps both goals. If Carr can’t have a good season with AB then he’s not the guy.
AB is also an automatic scapegoat.
This was damaged goods. Maybe he was worth $100 per share but he devalued himself and worked his way out of town to get a new contract. While at the time I didn't like the return, hindsight shows this was the correct move. Shame the Bills trade fell apart for us or we'd have had even more in return. AB self destructed and caused all this. I have no doubt in my mind that he has CTE with this erratic behavior.
I still think this was a good deal for the Raiders. They gave up very little to get AB. Yes, they gave him a new contract but they had plenty of money so even if AB is a total bust after a season and they decide to cut him, it won’t kill their cap.
The Raiders 2 biggest priorities are building buzz for a move to Vegas and finding out if Carr is the franchise QB. AB helps both goals. If Carr can’t have a good season with AB then he’s not the guy.
AB is also an automatic scapegoat.
Per Vic Tafur of The Athletic, Brown had to be "held back by a couple of teammates" when confronting Mayock. It's hard to see a path where he returns to the Raiders any time soon.
This was damaged goods. Maybe he was worth $100 per share but he devalued himself and worked his way out of town to get a new contract. While at the time I didn't like the return, hindsight shows this was the correct move. Shame the Bills trade fell apart for us or we'd have had even more in return. AB self destructed and caused all this. I have no doubt in my mind that he has CTE with this erratic behavior.
I still strongly disagree. The decision to trade AB was correct, nobody disputes that. But the steelers still mishandled the negotiation and didn’t get enough.
If you own a stock that is $100 per share and it drops all the way down to $20 per share a few months later, did you make a good trade if you sold it at $40? No, you may have been right to unload it at 40 but you should have sold it when it was at 90 or 80.
I’ll say it every time. The steelers could have kept AB happy for just a few more weeks by praising him publicly and working with his agent to make a trade happen. AB would have been fully on board with getting traded to Oakland and getting a new contract. All they had to do was kiss AB’s *** a few more weeks and they could have gotten fair value for him.
Colbert, Rooney, and Tomlin created this monster. If they had reigned him in years ago he would probably still be a productive member of the Steelers right now.
The steelers had inside info. AB’s issues were not public knowledge. The steelers could have done a much better job of keeping the dysfunction in house. And the arbitrary trade deadline? That was stupid.
Buffalo offered a 1. AB did have value. AB then went crazy on twitter and let it be known that he was running the show and had to approve of any trade. That’s when the market dried up.
The buffalo deal didn’t fall apart. AB killed it. If the steelers worked with AB to get him to a preferred destination, they could have gotten value.
Why am I so certain of this? Because it would have been in AB’s own best interest. That is his only motivation and the steelers could have used his own greed to keep him in line for just a few weeks.
You're implying they could have worked with AB. This is a guy who has lost his ******* marbles. This isn't a video game where you can make a trade based on his stats and what he brings to the field. This man has absolutely self imploded and it was kept mostly in check the last few years.
That ended when he quit on his teammates in week 17 and decided to go to war on Twitter. They weren't getting more for him, despite your thoughts, beliefs or whatever logic you are trying to apply. They took the best deal they could get for him given the circumstances and the FO was blasted for underselling AB. You're still implying that they undersold their stock.
Guess what? Now that 3rd and 5th look exactly like I said earlier, they ******* FLEECED OAKLAND.
AB's best interest for himself was getting paid to feed his warped ego. He got paid but if this man was right in the head he would go about his business and prove to people he's not a nut job. He can't even handle that. Foot issue, made up helmet issue. Now he's fighting the ******* GM who traded for him and paid him a monster contract? When it ends for AB and they dissect his brain, CTE is going to be discovered and maybe we will all feel sorry for him for how this all went down because he truly should be the greatest Steeler WR of all time. He ****** that up and we have moved on.
Maybe the guy was just a ******** from the beginning. The money brought it out. Sometimes no matter what you do,it can’t be fixed.
I remember when he had his first great season. He proclaimed he would get 2000 yds the following season....you could see his whole demeanor change. When he didn’t get the ball he sulked. There was that streak where he was going for consecutive games with I forget how many yards per game happening at the same time. They would feed him the ball no matter what. Remember they would feed him garbage yards that meant nothing to keep it alive.
We all know a person that’s embarrassing to be around. The person that just has no filter. The type that all you want is to just shut the **** up. This is AB. Yes,I was disappointed the FO didn’t get more for him. But give them credit. The train wreck was happening. He wasn’t going to shut up. God knows what other personal things will come out in the future about the locker room. You know it’s far from over. Anybody that’s been around team sports,knows there are all sorts of things that are sacred.....things that are unsaid to the public.
This prick will definitely say them. He is the poster boy of the “all about me generation “
I don't understand how any of this can even be argued. He's a ticking time-bomb and the Steelers got rid of it at the absolute best time possible.
The gift that keeps on giving!
I've never seriously considered that CTE is the cause of all of this, but now wonder.
Just how stupid can this #84 guy be. If Oakland cuts ties with him, any other team in the league would be insane to give him another shot.
Good for Mayock for holding his ground.
Colbert, Rooney, and Tomlin created this monster. If they had reigned him in years ago he would probably still be a productive member of the Steelers right now.