The Diary Of Antonio Brown
What a hilarious nightmare Antonio has turned out to be. Though I must say right up front, I think a lot of this is on Mike Mayock too.
Hard Knocks with the Raiders was an unfortunate disappointment overall. Hard Knocks just isn’t good now because it’s simply part of the media element so the raw and real moments just aren’t there. I saw someone describe it as a giant show-version of a press release and I agree. Hard Knocks should end. We didn’t get anything out of it except the names of a few fringe players who have okay stories. Even AB came across as normal in it, outside the one scene where it seemed like he hired a stat nerd to basically cherry pick numbers that made him the best at something.
They also ended the show just a few days too early. God I love this nonsense.
AB, or Mr Big Chest, or whatever he is these days, is a continuous gift. He got snippy and posted the fine letters on Instagram calling out the Raiders. The Raiders, mainly Mike Mayock I believe, did not appreciate this slander and had to make sure Mr big issues PUT THE TEAM FIRST. They apparently almost got into a physical fight with Vontaze Burfict of all people holding back AB. (Guess who totally called them being friends!) Now the Raiders might suspend Antonio Brown for week 1, which would damage his earnings due to his contract. AB also unfollowed the Raiders and Derek Carr on social media, and followed…the Texans? What do the Texans even have left to trade for AB with?
Besides being utterly hilarious, I have to actually put a fair amount of blame on Mayock. There is no way Mayock was going to handle this right. Mayock was a draft stooge, a scout at best, a media talking head who had no business being in charge of a team. He had no experience but now he’s the GM of the Raiders? What does Mayock know about dealing with big personalities like Brown? Mayock likely is full of ego and insecurity and tried to be mr discipline man to Brown cuz he’s THE BOSS but Brown just worked his way out of Pittsburgh by not being intimidated by that crap so he’s having none of it. Just a great mix of personality. I think Gruden has nothing to do with this and actually doesn’t give a shit if AB is a drama queen. It reeks of Mayock trying to be the boss.
The Raiders paid a 3rd and a 5th for Antonio Brown and they may have lost that trade.
My god.
Also that opener game last night sucked ass.
I’m laughing my ass off. This has to be like the 3rd or 4th time the Steelers have given the Raiders what they thought was a steal of a player only for them to have it blow up in their face. I imagine the Raiders will stop doing business with them at sometime, and then Kevin Colbert sends random dick picks to Maycock just to irk him.
It’s sad to see all of this nonsense happening less than 24 hours after the Hard Knocks finale aired. The show was ALREADY a big fat disappointment, and now it missed the BEST moment of drama?! NOOOOOOOOOooO!!! It’s like your best buddy DVR’d an entire season of football for you while you’re in a coma, and then upon waking up you discover the machine failed to record the Championship Games or Super Bowl.
I don’t know why, but Burfict being referred to as ‘Vonty’ in AB’s diary cracks me up for some reason.
Brand new NFL season, same old Thursday night football… Barf.
As for the whole AB situation, certainly the Raiders and Mayock have mishandled this to a degree, but AB just seems to get more insufferable with every passing day, I don’t know what teams would want to deal with him, at a certain point would even his supreme levels of talent get overshadowed by pure toxicity?
AB passed dumbass about 5 miles back. This is starting to feel like mental illness, or maybe he needed to replace his helmet a few years earlier.
I second this comment. He’s looney.
It’s gonna feel pretty bad if we find out in a few years that Antonio Brown’s behavior really is just a result of brain damage from the Burfict hit.
Just a theory but what if this is all AB’s masterplan to end up on the Patriots?
I like where your mind is at! But to coincide with the rising insanity of the man, we need to GO BIGGER. What if this is all BB’s masterplan to get AB on the Patriots with TP?! Err, TB. (Also, I can’t resist aging myself with movie quotes… since the VP is such a VIP, shouldn’t we keep the PC on the QT? ‘Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we’d all be put on KP.)
Back to AB, BB, and TB… what if BB sends out tiny hoodied minions to spike the health shakes of tremendously talented players like AB so that he can pick them up at bargain basement prices with a constantly doped-up TB, and then it’s all, “I taught him the Patriot Way. Now he’s a contributing member of society. Blah blah blah. On to another Super Bowl. *yawn*”
“I like where your mind is at!”
well, the part where Antonio Brown ends up on the Patriots is kind of objectionable
Someone even wrote a news posts suggesting it. Hmm…
Oh no
You win. Can I have the next Powerball numbers?
Speak of the devil!
Well, congrats on calling it
We have a winner!
Come on. Mayock has no power in the Raiders. He’s just Gruden’s yes-man. Part of his job is pretending to be the bad guy so Gruden can keep his smiling façade while plotting how to ship malcontents out of town. If you think Gruden doesn’t care about AB’s drama, just look at what happened with Keyshawn Johnson. That’ll tell you everything Gruden thinks about diva receivers.
At this rate Antonio will be lucky to play for Albany in the Arena League like his dad did.
I thought last night’s game was trying to celebrate the 100th season by sending the game back 100 years…
I disagree that this is on mayock at all, the same way I disagree with many that tomlin is at all to blame for what transpired in pittsburgh. Sometimes guys just aren’t going to be talked down or reasoned with, and I think that AB has shown us he is one of those people, and was one of these people even in pittsburgh. Mayock fined AB because AB is being a disruptive ass and deserved to be fined. What could mayock have done better? Just let AB run amok? That doesn’t set a very good example for the locker room, it’s essentially playing favorites. Look how well it went over in pittsburgh when whoever it was basically said “everyone here is ben’s b****” It’s not like mayock is even the one who’s publicly trying to boss AB around, AB is the one going to the public and being like LOOK WHAT HE DID TO ME, I GOT FINED WAH WAH. If you want to argue that maybe mayock shouldn’t have traded for him in the first place, I still take issue with that but at least see the argument, however everyone was expecting AB to calm down once he got what he wanted. So even that seems flimsy at best. I just don’t see how mayock has done something wrong here by disciplining AB. AB may be a talented player, but he’s still a player and deserves to be treated the same as everyone else.
tlfa
Man, I was so excited about last night’s game. I had to drive 60 miles and listened to part of it on the radio (my 3-year-old son drowned out about half of that), got to my parent’s house and sat down to watch the second half with my Dad. Neither of us care about either team, but I got Rodgers in my fantasy team and we were both starved for football.
Watching/listening to that game was less compelling than watching a crockpot, the most boring cookware, cook unseasoned cauliflower, the most boring food, on low setting. Such a disappointing opener. Thursday night games need to stop being a thing.
How dare you slander cauliflower in this way
Welp, I wonder if everyone is happy they gave opening night to this suckfest.
Season doesn’t start till Sunday night when the Champion NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS take the field.
That Spider Banana at the bottom is the ish! LOL
The bears suck and trubisky is ass
I like AB rocking the cool S. (Or is it the Stussy S?)
Well, guess this comic’s getting an immediate sequel.
Antonio Brown is a Raider no more.
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lmao
lmao at everything
Dave, Please make monday’s comic about an actual football game. AB’s had his share of the spotlight but there’s actual people who play football now.
Sorry, after him getting the boot and ending up on the Pats, look forward to more AB come Monday.
As AB now does, apparently for the Patriots. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
come for the nfl jokes
stay for the gatekeeping dudebros
And now he’s a Pat.
Antonio Brown story keeps writing…
Season 2 of “The Days of the Steelers” is getting hyped!
Honestly idc about Antonio Brown until Dave animates the 8 time Ben Roethlisberger sh** himself.
I am a bit numb and scared. I don’t know how I feel about this
I feel lik AB’s feet
IDK how to feel about him either. I hope he stops all that BS, or we will be in for a hell of a season. Same with Gordon.
A lot of Pats I’ve heard from HATE this move. Mostly because of how soon everything played out. It just screams investigation. That and the Raiders sure thought things would work out fine and we see how that went. I don’t care if Bill B is there watching over AB’s every move, dude has come across as a selfish, immature, egotistical moron. Calling him a diva or a cancer is almost an insult to divas and team cancers. Even TO is talking about how he wasn’t even that bad lol.
Part of me thinks AB will finally behave for a bit since he’s finally on a good team, and that he probably just acted crazy to get off the Raiders. The Patriots should smoke everyone with that stacked WR Corps though (AB, Demaryius Thomas, Gordon, Edelman… [shudder]) but who knows how long AB will hold up without going full Richie Incognito crazy?
The Steelers weren’t a bad team though. If he was unhappy there, how will no non-sense, the team above yourself New England make him feel any better?
The culture of NE is different. He got pissed because Big ben got special treatment.
I was like ell oh ell let’s see what that wacky ABis up to tod-
…What?
WAAAAAAAAAAAAT? 8|
I guess when you win enough Super Bowls, you’re just playing with ($9,000,000! of) house money. I know Bill is an evil genius, but I have my doubts about this one.
Eh, I personally am horrified what he may do to our lockerroom if his antics in Oakland weren’t just an act…
Seriously, him signing with the Patriots hours after getting his release from the Raiders sounds like some seriously screwed up and fishy stuff. I have come to really dislike AB through all this nonsense. I have tolerated the Patriots in spite of them being them. But not after this. I thought they were better than this.
Come on. 29 GMs and BOB tried to get on the phone with AB’s agent minutes if not seconds after the news broke.
“I thought they were better than this.”
LOL. Stop. Come on now. You can keep the tin foil on, but stop lying to yourself.
Well lol…I meant I thought they wouldn’t obviously stoop to such a low that it would be painfully noticeable by all the public. They tend to be shady in a way they can hide it.
I can’t wait until he starts fighting with bill
I am greatly looking forward to the next comic. So many directions to possibly take…