Throughout this entire Antonio Brown saga, nobody knew exactly what Mike Tomlin was going through other than players on the team, but he somehow managed to keep it under wraps until it exploded in the final week of the 2018 season and the team had to part ways with him.
ESPN reporter Jeremy Fowler dropped a damning piece about Brown earlier this week about the former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and his inside connections with the team got him a lot of inside information. One part of that article talked about how his former teammates basically knew Brown would not make it without Mike Tomlin being his coach once he left the team.
They were right.
“WITH DEBTS AND legal issues piling up, Brown’s three-year, $54 million deal with the Raiders ($30 million of it guaranteed) could have eased at least the financial hole in which he found himself. But when Brown signed that deal in March, some Steelers privately debated how long Brown would last without the generous concessions Tomlin made for the receiver.
The consensus was that Brown wouldn’t make it to Week 1 — and that turned out to be right.”
Brown got traded to the Raiders but caused so much commotion that he had never played a game for them before they released him. He eventually got signed by the Patriots, but would only last for eleven days before they cut him loose.
Brown remains under investigation by the league stemming from sexual assault allegations levied against him by his former trainer.
