Well playas…the Antonio Brown sweepstakes is finally over. The Steelers got hoodwinked and bamboozled when the Raiders walked up and offered them a third and fifth round pick for potentially the best wide receiver in the league. Over the past six seasons he’s averaged 114 receptions, 1,524 yards and 11 touchdowns and all they could get was some Funyuns and pickle for him? Oh yeah they threw in some candy cigarettes too.
According to USA TODAY Sports’ A.J. Perez, who got the information from some dun that wants to remain anonymous late Saturday night because the trade can’t become official until Wednesday when the new league year starts, it’s a wrap.
The Raiders will rework Brown’s contract to pay him for the next three years. It pays $50.1 million (with a maximum value of $54.1 million) with $30.1 million of it GUARANTEED.
So Brown gets to walk out of Pittsburgh with his bread too. Win-win until that dun actually has to show up at the Raiders facility and play for them.
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! I’m not mad at ole boy at all for forcing a trade and getting his money. Why not right? But how do you think life is going to be any better playing for the Raiders than the Steelers? He was at least in a winning culture in the Steel City and he was still getting paid.
So the trade had absolutely nothing to do with money or winning or being able to win. Now he’s playing for one of the arm pits of the NFL. The Raiders haven’t been traditionally good for decades. They’ve had times where they’ve stuck their heads out of the sand but this ain’t one of them playa.
Did you see them obligate themselves to paying Jon Gruden $100 million over the next 10 years? How many duns thought that made sense? The Raiders? I’d give it to Week 6 before Antonio Brown pulls out the make up and starts clownin’ them about how terrible the culture is in Raider Nation. Week 6! Book it. Why? Because money is like alcohol. It doesn’t change you. It just brings out of you what’s already in you. Antonio Brown was clownin’ before he got traded and got more bread. Now that he’s been traded and he’s got more money he’s liable to do anything like my momma used to say.
He’ll be going live on Facebook from the locker room telling boyz how terrible Gruden is and why he wants to leave there too. Stop me when I start lyin’!
