Antonio Brown is clearly trying to stay relevant in whatever ways he can. The free agent receiver, whose NFL career is on pause amid allegations of sexual assault and rape, has stayed active on social media. Though his digital presence has led to damaging behavior, he won’t quit Twitter or Instagram.
Over the last few days, Brown has posted clips of himself at Oakland Raiders’ practices from last summer. In a tweet on Saturday, Brown put out a video of him and quarterback Derek Carr failing to connect on a go-route. Brown wrote: “Derek Carr has an arm he can make every throw practice footage letting it fly.”
Insert facepalm emoji.
Film Study 84/7 Fitness Derek Carr has an arm he can make every throw practice footage letting it fly pic.twitter.com/CJ5V6A17Pi
— AB (@AB84) March 14, 2020
Brown is clearly trying to show NFL teams that he’s hard at work with film study, even when he’s out of the NFL. But in the process, he’s done two things wrong. He has shown footage of a team’s practice, which is something they almost always prefer to keep in-house. General manager Mike Mayock and coach Jon Gruden probably won’t like that Brown is making this video public. What’s more, Brown’s compliment almost feels sarcastic. It’s hard to tell whether he’s genuinely praising Carr’s arm when Brown is show an incomplete pass. If Brown wanted to show off Carr’s impressive play, why not tweet out a completion? It’s impossible to try to understand Brown’s behavior.
If we take this at face value, it seems he was trying to say something nice about Carr while getting the Raiders’s attention. But the result was probably net-negative, considering the context of the video, which Brown shared.
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