Antonio Brown

[Ring 6]

AB listens to one person- AB.
When Brady is throwing 10 times a game to Edelman, I am sure AB84 will be a good team player and sit quietly on the sideline.
If I were Dorsett, I would be so pissed at this move. Supposedly he was promised a bigger role this year in the passing game....good luck with that.

I suspect Dorsett will now be traded

So dorsett who is a nice guy but a mediocre receiver leaves because we add a great receiver.
Nice guy doesn’t show up on the scoreboard

 

[JMC00]

if the NFL demands BB turn over his phone so they can check for texts with Rosenhaus, what will the penalties be when he hands them a flip phone?

Belichick and Rosenhaus after talking

 

[supafly]

I’m sure it’s been discussed at length, but it was also a move that keeps him away from such competitors as KC, SEA, PHI, etc.

 

[Deus Irae]

I’m sure it’s been discussed at length, but it was also a move that keeps him away from such competitors as KC, SEA, PHI, etc.

It's over, dude. The team that won the Super Bowl last year, despite the players allegedly being pissed at its coach for costing them the Super Bowl the year before, and despite the alleged discontent among its top players, is going down the ****ter because it added one of the elite WRs in the game.


0-16


Might as well start lining up on the Tobin now.

 

[NormZauchin]

With today's developments, I'm thinking all this pre season super hype build up is just going to put Gronk over the top in a few weeks - he won't want to miss out on this ride with the boys. If BB, the coaches, & TFB keep everything in check, the Patriots could produce a historic season.

But like everything else in life, key moments are very fleeting. It won't magically re appear when your pushing 55 or so and starting to get gray. You don't want to be asking yourself "what if". If he's physically healthy, I think the chance for another fabulous ride and another ring from Mr Kraft will be one strong lure Gronk won't be able to resist. And for us Patriots fans, wow.....what a time, certainly never to be repeated again.

While we're dreaming, let's think of the offense if both Gronk and Marty come out of retirement. It would be a virtual all-star team.

 

[captain insano]

Eight hours ago he was a moron to me. Now he's my favorite new Patriot. (To be fair to myself, I did make a post earlier today suggesting he may have orchestrated the whole release from Oakland - he may only be partly crazy rather than full-blown).

that's just so lame. he's the same exact guy he was before he signed. he's full-blown mental case.

 

[festy1986]

Someone should gather up all the negative peeps into a giant post and see how many jump ship to the positive side and how long is takes.

As for me, someone who's completely down, if it falls apart and they cut him? So what... roll the dice.

But to take a moral high ground is pretentious **** if I ever seen one.

 

[XLIX]

I would like to see the source claiming that Belichick promised a bigger role to a player.

I was kinda thinking the same thing myself.... I've seen that statement repeated in here often enough that it's clear quite a few people accept it as fact, but I sure can't remember hearing anything about it beyond media/fan speculation.

 

[patfanken]

The final run stuff was thrown around when we got Cooks - 3 years ago.

and who knows how the Eagles Superbowl would have ended if we didn't lose Cooks early in the FIRST quarter.

 

[edkk323]

How about a screen shot from www.thesteelersfans.com?

I am telling you nobody is ending nobody's career for 200 bucks.

 

[signbabybrady]

And abides

I hear the dude abides.

 

[Redman443]

I cant believe Bill really did this but he is a mastermind. Worst case scenario it doesnt work out we only miss out on 9 mil. Low risk but high reward, If he acts up if anyone can rein him in its brady and if brady cant rein him in, BB definitely will.

 

[edkk323]

That would just have been cruel.

too cruel for school

 

[Chevy]

I don't think Patriots tampered. However I do believe AB wanted out of Oakland and might have played up being crazy.

BB does his homework.

Sees the situation in Oakland and tells the bean-counters to write up 2 or 3 possible contracts and wait.

AB gets the ax, BB says wait until 4pm (I believe you have to wait) and call Rosenhaus. Offer the lowest, then work your way up.

Drew, fielding calls from NE and others (I am sure) talks to AB. AB says "Patriots! And a decent deal? Take it."

 

[Sully]

So who gets #84 Watson or AB? Lookout for number gate.

 

[Deus Irae]

This is why everyone hates you, New England

...“Someday, New England is going to fall apart,” we whisper, quietly, for fear of attracting the attention of the chowderheads. “Someday, Belichick will retire, and Brady will go off to a life of hermetically sealed supermodel bliss, and New England will struggle to get to .500.” And then something like Antonio Brown happens, and we’re reminded again that someday is not today.

Five months from now, there’s a terrifyingly good chance that New England will bulldoze its way through the league, that Goodell will hand the Lombardi Trophy to Belichick, that Brady will once again flash that insufferable RINGZZZ grin in a cascade of confetti. Once again, Brady will hold up multiple fingers to symbolize all of New England’s Super Bowls. And once again, we’ll all hold up just one in response.

This is why everyone hates you, New England

 

[patfanken]

A couple of late takes since I've been away for a few hours.

1. The 2nd sentence from the BSPN flacks after they announced the deal was to bring up the "conspiracy" angle. No sh!t, the 2nd sentence...and they repeated the allegation several times in the 3 minutes the story ran.

2. I'm really surprised how many are thinking that simply by adding AB, who is a WR by the way, we are suddenly invincible and preordained to be in the Superbowl. He's a WR who is going to get 6-10 targets a game out of 65--70 offensive plays.

Yes he makes the WR group better, and YES, he makes everyone else's job on the offense a BIT easier. But ANY WR only moves the needle fractionally. Just check the best WR's in currently in the league and add up their playoff win total and compare it Troy Brown, David Givens, Dion Branch's totals. Hell compare them with Chris Hogan's. Having great WR's has NEVER been the ticket to a team's consistent winning.

3. Only elite QB's can change a team's destiny by any degree by simply joining the team, and that's only relative to any other position. I would have been more buoyed at our chance to repeat more by the addition of an elite LT or interior DLman more than a WR. I know there are people who disagree, but FACTS speak for themselves. Give me Trent Williams and Akeem Hicks on this team and I'd drop AB and DT and feel better about a repeat.

But alas, I'm watching football in the fantasy football, the individual means more than the team era. An era where the glorification of all things WR related are elevated to beyond their real value to winning football games.

4. We also should remember that this dream team WR is led by 2 guys who will LITERALLY be here on a week to week basis. Whatever happens on any given Sunday, would anyone be surprised if Gordon and/or AB isn't on the team that following Monday. And it will be that way for the entire season. Volatile is understating the situation.

5. I LOVED our team last season. They were the little engine that could. Stomped down several times last season and left for dead, only to keep grinding and limp their way into the playoffs and THEN beat 3 thirteen win teams.

THIS team might be a little harder to like. I like the underdog, no one believes in us, where still here, teams we've had in recent years. And just because we added a freakin' overrated (the position not the player) WR, that will be harder to justify.

6. Next to the game itself, I can't wait for Miguel to make sense of the cap situation and how we managed to get BOTH AB and Jones' contracts into $6MM in cap space. Sometimes you can figure the basics out on your own and leave the details to Miguel, but this one is going to require Euclidean Math skills.

7. Now that all that is said and done and we have to deal with the reality that on Monday, AB will be a Patriot, I would sit him for the Miami game and have him make his first start at the Jets. That will give him 2 full weeks to get into some kind of flow with Brady and Josh, and to figure out his role, as well as everyone else's. And since the NY press is doing it's thing to inflame this as much as they can, it would only be fitting that AB starts his Pats career against the Jets.

 

[Sciz]

BB says wait until 4pm (I believe you have to wait)

Not anymore. Now teams can contact the player as soon as the prior team announces the release, so closer to noon I believe with Brown. That rule changed just this year.

 

[VrabelJr]

This is a super low risk move. At worst we lose one game.

 

[Easywolf32]

Steelers loan Patriots AB for one year.