Well. Allll-righty then.
The Blob stands corrected.
Apparently As The Buttonhook Turns is not finished with its run.
No, the Antonio Brown soap opera/drama queen show continues out in Oakland, so forget what the Blob said yesterday. It still believes all of it will go away the first time he runs a go route for six, but who knows if it ever gets to that point in Oakland now.
Because, on Thursday, this happened.
A screaming match with the GM, who's apparently as hard a case as AB is, and now it looks as if the Raiders are going to suspend their prize offseason acquisition before he ever plays a snap. Partly this is just a ploy to get out of paying him his bonus money. But part of it is unquestionably that they're fed up with the guy.
And, again: He hasn't even played a snap for them yet.
This has to be a world record for souring a relationship. I mean, it's not even really a relationship yet, and already AB has so pissed off his new bosses they're going to suspend him.
I don't know where the soap opera goes from here, but it's going to be damned interesting to see. If he's suspended, will AB demand a trade (because you know he will)? Will the Raiders just straight up waive him, a staggering thought considering he's the best wideout in the game? And if they do, what will that say to the rest of the league about AB's desirability?
Somebody would sign him, you have to think. Someone always signed T.O., if you recall. But in a league that increasingly craves stability and staying in step with the rest of the worker bees over personality and -- horrors! -- "distraction," AB winding up out of football, at least for a time, is not an inconceivable scenario.
Colin Kaepernick, after all, came thisclose to winning a Super Bowl for the 49ers, but he's Typhoid Mary now, blackballed out of the league because he took a stand on racial inequality in a way deemed inappropriate by the self-appointed arbiters of national anthem etiquette. So who knows?
Again ... stay tuned.
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