Antonio Brown won’t be inviting Bruce Arians over for dinner anytime soon.
During an appearance on The Pivot Podcast, the All-Pro wideout opened up about his early encounters with Arians during their stint together in Pittsburgh.
Brown made shocking claims that Arians didn’t think he was smart enough to play the “X” position for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
“[Ryan Clark] and I know how Arians used to treat me,” Brown said, via ProFootballTalk. “You and I know that Bruce Arians said that A.B. isn’t smart enough to play the ‘X’ position. You and I know that Ben Roethlisberger had to say enough is enough and tell Bruce Arians that we have to play this guy. The public doesn’t know that.”
Brown also touched on his fallout with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“Bruce Arians has to respect me as a player,” Brown added. “I’m in the middle of a game, how you gonna tell me get the ‘F’ out of here? You know how it is in a game with testosterone and how you act on game day. You probably would have slapped him. If I can’t play, I can’t play. It’s a deltoid ligament. . . . I have to have surgery in the next couple weeks. . . . I know I make football look easy and I know I could run 17 or 18 miles per hour, which is not normal with a hurt ankle, but I can’t do that over the course of a year. I’ll kill myself. I don’t have no mental health problem. I’m just about respect. I stand on principle.”
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Arians was asked about Brown during an interview on The Pat McAfee Show.
“Nobody works any harder than [Antonio Brown],” Arians said. “He’s always in great shape, skill-set’s unbelievable. He’s one of those guys that doesn’t age.”
In the meantime, Antonio Brown, who was recently named head of Kanye West’s Donda Sports, said he and Ye are “extremely serious” about buying the Denver Broncos.
