Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand. I'm Andrew Brand. This music underscoring me now is from my son, Sam Brandt. Got a new track out. This is it. You want to check out neon bloom, the EP. It's available wherever you get your music. It's out today, so enjoy it from Sam Brand.

Glad to give them this space here on the business sports podcast.

First a rant, then we get to our special guest.

My rant is on Antonio Brown.

I've been hard on him in the past.

This is not being hard on him.

Moreover, being hard on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

They're sort of like, you know, the boyfriend or girlfriend or the significant another that thinks this person's going to change when they've mistreated others in the past, that they'll be different. This will somehow be different. That's more of a hope and a wish and a plan. That's not a strategy. And the bucks are thinking, well, we got Tom Brady, we got a locker room, we got a good team. It'll be different. It's hard to say that. I mean, the best predictor of future behavior is always past behavior. I don't get the signing. They have good receivers. I understand they're banged up. I just don't get it. Signing Antonio Brown. It's not something to bring into a locker room. You know, the Steelers tolerate them as long as they

could. They finally got rid of them, took on a $21 million dead cap hit, which is detrimental to the

franchise. They're starting uphill last year, even before they lost the quarterback. Terrible

decision to get rid of them from a financial point of view, but they felt that they had to.

Then he goes to the Raiders. They give up two draft picks. They give them a $40 million contract.

They get to void out of that because of insubordination. But still, cut him after signing him three months earlier in this big dramatic fanfare of a trade.

And then, of course, the patriots take him on 10 days later

take them off after giving him a 9 million dollar signing bonus three teams in a matter of

a few months deciding they're better off without and tonya brown than with him but here we go the

bucks they give him a minimum deal tom brady's an advocate. Let's see what happens.

My senses, this can't go well.

I don't even care what happens on the field.

This can't go well.

Okay, that's my little rant to start this thing off.

Hope you've enjoyed listening to my son's music.

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