This Should End the 'Antonio Brown Might Come Back to New England' Talk Once and For All

Well, it was not exactly fun while it lasted. But I think it’s safe to say that, as far as any talk of the Patriots bringing Antonio Brown back, this slams the door, locks it, dead bolts it, alarms it, welds it shut and bricks it up for good.

Like I told the Barstool Breakfast guys this morning, the Patriots have let it be known through channels that they are not the least bit interested, with one source being quoted as saying “What’s changed?” He didn’t let the club know he was facing a lawsuit. He couldn’t stop himself from texting deranged nonsense in the week and a half he was here. And after he got released, he decided to bring up The Tug Rule scandal. If none of that was enough to burn his bridges and piss on the ashes, this certainly will.

Granted, Brown didn’t write this, he only posted someone else’s words. And it’s entirely possible he was still good through those first 14 lines. If he’d cropped the screenshot to cut off the end and merely post the parts from “I’m beginning to question” through “Swallow your pride RKK,” he might have still had a shot. It wouldn’t have been hard to do.

But instead he, as the kids say, went there. Knuckles deep, so to speak. I don’t know how that sentence is relevant to the discussion or why it’s, pardon the unfortunate phraseology, jammed into the middle of the message like this. What I do know with absolute clarity to a moral certainty is that you definitely don’t get rehired if you post that to your 3.7 million followers on the Gram. Whether it’s true or not. And I don’t judge either way. Whatever a man does in the privacy of his massage booth is entirely between him, his masseuse and his God. It’s his sanctuary. And to introduce it to a conversation is career suicide, ten times over.

So with that, lets end any and all discussion about Brown coming back to the Patriots, no matter how frustrated Brady seems or how much the other receivers struggle. The first qualification for a job is not talking about things going up inside your boss’ things, no matter what field you’re in, from bagging groceries after school to catching touchdown passes. Everybody knows that. Except, apparently, Antonio Brown, whose stupidity on social media knows no limits. Now stop talking about bringing him back. I mean it this time.