There is some funny business going on with the Bucs.
Even though the head coach Bruce Arians has stated he is no longer a Buc and they don’t want him on the team, they have refused to release him.
It seems they are scared another team might pick him up on the cheap for a playoff run to use against them.
That is weak sauce. Don’t say someone is no longer on the team and then try to hold them hostage.
Arians have already lied a few times to the media about this situation.
“I have no regrets. I just hope the best for him,” Arians said Monday, acknowledging that it was difficult for him to watch Brown erupt on the sideline in such a chaotic way. After teammates Mike Evans and O.J. Howard tried to calm him, Brown took off his jersey and pads, threw his gloves and undershirt into the stands, and jogged across the end zone shirtless while both teams were on the field.
“It was very hard,” Arians said. “I wish him well. If he needs help, I hope he gets some. It’s very hard. Because I do care about him.”
“I care about him a bunch. I hope that he’s OK,” he said.
An NFL Network report said that Brown was upset because he didn’t feel he could continue playing on his ankle, which he injured in Week 6, forcing him to miss five games along with three additional games because of his league-imposed suspension for producing a fake COVID-19 vaccination card.
“I don’t know that he was [injured],” Arians said.
Right now, they are just holding AB hostage and looking for a way to potentially suspend him, I would imagine, but can you suspend a player who said he was hurt, and then you tried to force into the game?
Can you suspend a player who you told you no longer wanted on the team?
Something fishy is going on.
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