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I'm here. It is Saturday. It's three o'clock this the news broke an hour ago. I was taping an interview

randomly in the studio with an a list celebrity that I'm excited to run that podcast. I'll tell you who was after dad

Um and then I'll send the Patriot sign Antonio Brown. I'm pretty sure I have texts from you saying I wouldn't want this guy. So I know you've done a 180 right?

I have done a cautious 180 cautious 180. Okay. What's the problem?

Well, the problem is his behavior in the last year and a half I guess but you know we've seen this before we've seen guys

Bill Bella check ring guys in and you know that it's only for a year. I would think he wants to get his reputation back and then sign a big contract with somebody else.

Oh, in a way we have nothing to lose I guess because that clubhouse has so many strong leaders in it and the fact that he's coming here is just shocking. I thought he was going to go to Seattle actually.

They could really use that way receiver but I'm shocked. And yet I'm not shocked because we've you know, Randy Moss certainly was a character.

I don't think he was a character in the same vein as this guy but it's just really funny. You know, I don't know if you saw that the odds in Las Vegas went from for the Patriots went from six to one to four to one,

for us to win the Super Bowl. Oh wow. We now we now jumped ahead of Kent City. Well, I did I did a podcast with Mallory that we taped on Thursday.

Let's do it. Yeah. And we were wondering if there was something wrong with him because his behavior was so strange that it seemed like he was either a unraveling or be like just might have passed the point of just being too much of a malcontent that would be happy on a team.

Now we're starting to learn that it seems like there was path C which was at some point over the last three months he must have decided he wanted to play for a contender and not play for the Raiders.

What's kind of the rumor out there on Twitter actually that the motivation to play for Oakland, which is not going to be a good team even would not have been a good team in work even with him after coming from a team that was a contender every year.

You wonder how much he orchestrated all of this and and again, well wait, hold that thought, hold that thought because that's the glass half full if you're a Patriots fan of this whole thing is that he's crazy like a fox any orchestrated this whole thing in that the only way he was going to get out of Pittsburgh with all the dead money they would have had they have to pay 21 million dollars that even have the money on their team was if they had traded him.

Somewhere else. So the options were Buffalo and Oakland he goes to Oakland now if we're doing the crazy like the fox path he goes to Oakland realizes quickly as no chance to win there is an impressed by the quarterback is an impressed by anything and then just starts planning his exit from that point on which would explain all the weird things he's done now does that make me want to roof for him on the Patriots i'm not sure.

Well in week two it probably makes you want to roof firm yeah but it does seem suspicious in terms of the helmet and then all the other stuff that went on and how quickly how quickly he signed with the Patriots by the way I mean he was only eligible for a clock and the news went out of 401.

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