The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced on Thursday that they terminated Antonio Brown’s contract after he refused to cooperate with the team’s attempts to have him seen by a doctor.
On Sunday, Brown’s attorney took to Twitter to fire right back at that notion.
Sean Burstyn, who represents Brown, sent a series of tweets on Sunday accusing the Bucs of intentionally scheduling a doctor’s appointment that they knew Brown would miss. The goal, Burstyn says, was concocting a “bogus scheme to engineer a way to cut AB.”
He then accused the Bucs of needing to find a way to get out of the news of head coach Bruce Arians cutting Brown in the middle of last week’s game against the New York Jets. He called the coach’s treatment of brown “degrading” and “inhumane.”
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Arians admits that he kicked Brown off the sideline, but made sure to note that it had nothing to with his ankle injury. Arians claims that Brown had become increasingly upset about not getting the ball and wouldn’t return to the game. Burstyn says Brown is planning to take legal action against the Bucs.
In the meantime, Brown will have surgery on his ankle on Jan. 18, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
