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Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan.

I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

I'm Mike Lupica, MLB.com, the New York Daily News.

And I'm Mitch Album of Detroit Free Press. This is the sports reporters podcast, the first one of 2022.

And shall we say, we begin the new year packed. So let's start in New York City, where their general vicinity, where the Tampa Bay Buccaneers came up to play the New York Jets, with Antonio Brown basically designated as their maybe top target, considering they were having injury situations with their other receivers.

By the time the game was over, Antonio Brown was half naked, in a tunnel somewhere, and

off the team.

And Tom Brady had pulled off yet another, yet another, come back against the New York

Jets, who apparently sent the wrong play in on fourth and two.

After a timeout, coming out of a time out coming out of a time out of a time out this could

only happen in the NFL but all right where do you want to start unpacking this one well well

listen we'll start with brown i i mean i i i know it's funny and i just think there's something wrong

with this guy i i think he's been a pain in the ass.

He's been a talented pain in the ass for a long time.

This was such bizarre behavior that you wonder about his emotional and mental health at this point.

For doing something like this after he had once again been thrown a life preserver by tom brady

and by the bucks uh the the defending super bowl champion and to to do this to show them all up and

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