Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown is not interested in discussing his recent NFL suspension.
Brown was asked Sunday after Tampa Bay’s 32-6 win over the Panthers what it meant to let coach Bruce Arians into his corner after he returned from a three-game suspension for misrepresentation. his COVID-19 vaccination status. Brown quickly shot down the question, saying, “next question” several times before shooting back at the reporter.
“We just wanted to talk about this game,” Brown said. “We don’t want to waste time with you guys writing bogus.”
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When a reporter protested Brown’s decision not to speak, saying he had not spoken to the media since the suspension, Brown said he simply did not want to talk about the suspension. only.
“It’s all TV series,” Brown said. “It’s all about football. We’re here to talk about Carolina or I don’t want to talk to you.”
Early in the season, it was reported that Brown’s former chef claimed he used a fake vaccination card to avoid the NFL’s strict COVID-19 protocols. The former chef claims he owes Brown $10,000. A few weeks later, the NFL suspended Brown and safe Mike Edwards after concluding that evidence supported claims that the Tampa Bay teammates had “misrepresented their immunization status.”
Both players were suspended for three matches.
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It was reported that Brown could be on thin ice shortly after he joined the Buccaneers in October 2020, with Arians telling Peter King that if Brown “tried again, he’d be gone”. by NBC’s Pro Football Talk Mike Florio.
Apparently, that didn’t turn out to be the case Arians said after the end of Brown’s suspension that returning both Brown and Edwards would be in the “best interests” of the group.
The news comes after injuries to top players Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. Godwin is out for the rest of the season, while Evans missed Sunday’s game with a hamstring injury.
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I certainly don’t mean any disrespect @ AB84 by asking him what it means for Bruce Arians to stand in his corner after what some have deemed “a joke”. He is allowed to answer how he feels. That is his right. But I can assure you, I care about honesty – not “drama”.
– JennaLaineESPN (@JennaLaineESPN) December 26, 2021
In Brown’s first game back, he caught 10 of his 15 goals in 101 yards, all leading the team.
Brown was asked if he thought he might return, to which he replied that he was “here to do my job.”
“I can’t control what people write, how people try to frame me, or how people try to put me down,” Brown said. “Life is about obstacles and persevere and do what’s right. So you’ll get the results right. So I stand here before you to be grateful, humbly, thankful and glad when being part of a big win with my teammates. It’s not about what I did. It’s about what all of those in there did together and that’s it.”
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Brown said most of what he has to deal with is drama created by the media and drama created by people who want something from him.
“But that’s just part of life, part of being in the position I’m in,” Brown said. “I can’t control what people want from me, I can’t control what people write about me. I can’t control what people say about me. All I can do is wake up. get up every day, be the best person you can be and when i get the chance to do my job, do my job the best way i can and that is where we are today .”
