Antonio Brown is now attacking one of the few people that is in his corner, especially after what he pulled on the field of play against the Jets.
The now-ex Buccaneers receiver launched into another public tirade against his former team after they released him Thursday. This time, Brown went after his Tampa Bay quarterback – and biggest advocate – Tom Brady.
“To me, a friend is someone who’s got your back,” Brown said on Friday’s episode of the “Full Send Podcast.” “Not everybody in sports is going to be your friend. Tom Brady’s my friend why? Because I’m a good football player. He needs me to play football. People have different meanings of what friendship is.”
Brady was likely the sole reason he even got to be in Tampa, during the 2020 season, signing a one-year deal prior to the team’s Super Bowl run. The quarterback invited Brown to live with him and his family in Florida and convinced the Bucs to sign him – despite head coach Bruce Arians previously calling him a “diva.”
Appearing on Clubhouse, Brown added that Brady didn’t do enough.
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“You can’t really expect anyone to be your friend in the business of football,” Brown said. “In the business of football, our business is winning. Brady and I like winning. We have that in common. That’s what makes me want to be around him, makes us jell, makes us great. I’m out here getting prove-it contracts, you say you’re my friend, I shouldn’t be playing on that type of deal when I came here and we won a Super Bowl.”
“Brady is the general manager,” Brown said on the Full Send Podcast. “He’s the guy my agent made the contract with, he’s the middleman and politician. I talked to Tom, and he knows I’m not going to play.”
Brown also made sure to send more shots at Bruce Arians.
“Imagine the guy who you think has your back, who you flew here with to do a mission, and they know your situation, and you get there and you’re battling with them, that he tells you that because you can’t go to war with them, he tells you to get the f–k out of there?” Brown said. “I’m an alpha male. If you discriminate on my public image and my name, at that point, it’s f–k you too professionally.”
Arians has since fired back at AB and his claims during a Thursday press conference.
(NY Post)
