On Antonio Brown and an Unusual Week 17
The MMQB NFL Podcast
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
The penultimate Sunday of the NFL regular season was the strangest Sunday of the NFL regular season, and nothing was more unusual than Antonio Brown walking out of MetLife Stadium during the third quarter of the Bucs-Jets game. Jenny, Conor and Gary discuss how we arrived at this point with Brown, how the Bucs could possibly justify bringing him in, defending some of his indefensible actions, then cutting him loose after what was a relatively minor incident compared to the rest of his history. What all of it says about Brown, the Bucs’ organization and the way the NFL handles players.
There was also plenty to talk about on the field, including Joe Burrow’s heroic performance in the Bengals’ division-clinching win over the Chiefs, the Cardinals defense rekindling concerns over Dak Prescott’s late-season performance, the Rams’ uneven win in Baltimore, the Raiders’ persistence in Indy, the Dolphins’ meltdown in Nashville, and the good and bad of Trey Lance’s second career start.
Plus, a fond farewell (though she’ll be returning as a guest) to our own Jenny Vrentas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Gary. Just a heads up. The opening segment of this episode deals with mature topics. |
| 0:06.0 | You will not, for instance, want to listen in the car or on in-home speakers if there is a small child within earshot. |
| 0:13.0 | So with that out of the way, enjoy the show. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and we are |
| 0:25.0 | welcome to the MMQB NFL podcast I'm Gary Gremlin I'm Jenny Brentus I'm Conoror and we are |
| 0:28.1 | through Sunday of week 17 here the penultimate week of the regular season. |
| 0:33.7 | Lots of exciting games, lots of big finishes, a lot to playoff implications, |
| 0:38.4 | but it was also a really strange week and we are starting off this show |
| 0:42.1 | with a discussion of certainly the |
| 0:43.8 | strangest development that we saw on Sunday or really have seen in quite a while and |
| 0:48.8 | that was Antonio Brown in the third quarter of the Buccaneers game in East Rutherford against the jets, |
| 0:56.0 | removing his jersey and his shell, removing his undershirt, |
| 1:00.0 | and just walking off the field in the middle of a game apparently caught a ride home. |
| 1:05.2 | Bruce Arian said afterwards he is no longer a member of the Buccaneers and that's |
| 1:10.9 | that's where we are with it. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, and it was certainly a bizarre situation, Gary, and we don't know all the specifics. |
| 1:19.0 | Bruce Arians didn't elaborate on very many of the specifics after the game but I do think we should |
| 1:24.8 | back up for a second and consider all of the history that got us to this point I mean |
| 1:30.1 | earlier this season of course he lied about his vaccination status was |
| 1:34.6 | suspended for three games and then welcomed back by the bucks but before that the |
| 1:38.8 | things that sports illustrated wrote about in 2019 there was a civil suit by a former trainer alleging rape that was later |
| 1:46.7 | settled out of court, but there was also an allegation of sexual misconduct by an artist that he worked with. |
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