An arrest warrant has been issued in Florida for troubled free-agent wide receiver Antonio Brown.
A day after his trainer was arrested for an incident that saw numerous police cars at Antonio Brown’s home in Hollywood, (FL), an arrest warrant was issued Wednesday for the free-agent wide receiver, per a number of reports.
SLATER SCOOP: An arrest warrant was just issued for Antonio Brown.
The arrest warrant warns officers that Brown has a concealed weapons permit “and is known to carry.”
“Brown had a firearm stolen out of Dade County in 2018. Officers should use caution when approaching Brown, as he is known for being confrontational when dealing with police.”
The entertainment/gossip site offers details on the original incident.
TMZ Sports has obtained court docs in the AB alleged assault case in which the moving truck driver describes why Brown and his trainer attacked him during a routine drop-off Tuesday at Brown’s Florida home.
The driver claims he was hired to deliver belongings AB had stored in California — but when he arrived and demanded his $4,000 payment, Brown refused to hand over the cash.
Brown pelted a rock at the truck driver before the alleged battery outside of his home Tuesday, per TMZ.
The documents show that Brown later forced his way into the driver’s side of the main cabin and began to physically strike the driver after a disagreement over payment escalated. He was then restrained by his associates.
Brown’s trainer, Glenn Holt, was arrested on a felony burglary with battery charge on Tuesday. He posted a $20,000 bond on Wednesday and was released from Broward County Jail.
Eli Manning is retiring as a New York Giant after 16 seasons with the team. A remarkable run.
Eli Manning is retiring as a New York Giant after 16 seasons in Blue. The college star from Ole Miss brought the Giants a pair of Super Bowl rings and many thrills. Between brother Peyton and himself, the Manning Bros. threw for a combined 128,963 yards and 905 touchdowns. Eli Manning was twice Super Bowl MVP to Peyton’s one.
Forcing the trade to the Giants
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Eli Manning — and his family — were not going to be pushed around from the start. The San Diego Chargers drafted the quarterback from Ole Miss No. 1 overall in 2004. He wanted no part of the West Coast and made the Bolts send him to the Giants. The deal saw Philip Rivers head to San Diego with the Giants’ third-round pick in 2004, and New York’s first- and fifth-round picks in 2005. Those players turned into Nate Kaeding, Shawne Merriman and Roman Oben.
Tom Brady, Steve Young, Joe Montana, Larry Csonka. Where do the superstars’ MVP performances in the Super Bowl rank?
The Super Bowl MVP is a pinnacle for a player. Each year someone earns the award. There have been great efforts and some that were merely right spot, right time. A look at how they all stack up.
53. Dexter Jackson (XXXVII)
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Dexter Jackson had a pair of picks for 34 return yards in earning honors. The DB didn’t have the most return yards of interceptions on his team as Dwight Smith had 94 and a pair of Pick-Sixes. Meanwhile, Derrick Brooks also had a Pick-Six but Jackson was given the award.
Joe Namath made the mistake at the end of his career and Broadway Joe doesn’t want Tom Brady to do what he did.
Joe Namath urged fellow Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady not to make the same mistake the Jets’ QB did at the end of his career.
Namath played for the Jets from 1965-76. Then, faced with a new Alabama QB having been selected by New York in Richard Todd and a coaching change to Walt Michaels, Namath went from Broadway Joe to Hollywood Joe, joining the Los Angeles Rams for 1977.
It did not work out. He was 2-2 in four starts, throwing four picks in his final one — against the Bears on MNF — before retiring. Namath doesn’t want Brady to follow his white-shoed footsteps.
“It’s almost beyond my belief that (Brady) would go to another team under any circumstances,” said Namath, via ESPN. “I can’t imagine that separation. Moving out of the New England area that he’s been so accustomed to, and his family, that’s a hard thing, too. I don’t think he’ll ever leave that totally behind, I really don’t. I want to see him play as long as he physically and mentally wants to, man, because we’ve all seen over the years the execution that has been superb more times than not. We don’t get to see that kind of player, that kind of character, very often. It’s very rare.
“I wish I knew what I learned in making that transition before making it, “meaning it turned out to be a very difficult transition.”
Darrelle Revis isn’t sure Richard Sherman is as great as many people think the Niners’ DB believe.
The man who created his own island isn’t overly wowed by the defensive play of Richard Sherman.
Seven-time Pro Bowler and one-time Super Bowl champ (XLIX, New England) took to Twitter after the 49ers downed the Packers, 37-20, and questioned the Niners’ DB’s elite playing ability.
Fear of getting beat in man to man coverage. Every snap every play. The fact that he doesn’t travel as a cornerback is lame. Except the challenge as the best and shut Adams down the entire game. Do it for the game of football. Stop hiding a cover 3 zone. pic.twitter.com/OWuzFtj8ov
All y’all think I’m throwing shade. I’m not. Just stating the man is not a pound for pound man to man corner. If you know the game of football he plays in a Cover 3 Scheme. He does not travel but traveling with a receiver is not for every DB. It’s a few on the corner list who can
The play on the Revis’ TV screen was a 65-yard pass from Aaron Rodgers to Davante Adams, which saw the Packer wideout burn Sherman … bad.
Rodgers’ pass was more amazing when you realized both his feet were off the ground when he released the ball.
If you look closely both feet are off the ground as Aaron Rodgers throws the long completion to Davante Adams. Pretty impressive. pic.twitter.com/9NNRj2DhTz
Patrick Mahomes will be 24 years and 138 days old when he starts Super Bowl LIV for the Kansas City Chiefs
Patrick Mahomes will be 24 years and 138 days old when the Kansas City Chiefs play in Super Bowl LIV on Feb. 2 in Miami. Where does that rank the Chiefs’ superstar when it comes to youngest starting quarterbacks?
11. Vince Ferragamo (25, 271)
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Vince Ferragamo faced the Steelers with the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl XIV. He was 15-of-25 for 212 yards and a pick in a 31-19 loss.
The New York Post is reporting DAZN has signed Youtuber Logan Paul to a $1 million deal for a fight with Brown, who has yet to accept but has been working out with a boxing trainer. Brown and Paul have feuded with each other over social media.
If Brown agrees to what sources said is an offer in excess of $1 million and maybe multiple millions plus incentives, then DAZN hopes to schedule the fight for April in Las Vegas around the same time as the NFL Draft.
“This would be the biggest fight of 2020,” Paul, who has 20 million YouTube subscribers, told The Post in a statement through DAZN. “I’m ready to sign my contract and punch Antonio Brown in the face on behalf of his baby mama. Right now, we’re waiting on him, but I’m not sure if he actually wants to fight or if he’s teasing it for clout.”
Brown’s troubling behavior has forced the hand of his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, who is no stranger to controversial clients.
Still, it says volumes when you realize Rosenhaus has seen enough — for now — of the wide receiver and his antics.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports Rosenhaus is conditionally cutting ties with the free agent.
Agent Drew Rosenhaus conditionally terminated his relationship with Antonio Brown today until the free-agent WR seeks counsel, per an NFLPA source. Rosenhaus wrote in the letter that the NFLPA received today that he would like to work with Brown, but not until he first gets help.
Of course, Rosenhaus has put stipulations on his exit and is making sure the door is open enough for him to keep Brown as a client if he can get his life together.
Aaron Rodgers lasted until the 24th pick in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft. Who were the players chosen before the QB?
Sometimes great players slip in the NFL Draft. Aaron Rodgers did not fall anywhere near as far as Tom Brady, but the QB wasn’t thrilled the San Francisco 49ers passed on him and he lasted until the 24th pick in 2005. So, how did the players chosen before Rodgers do in their careers?
Through the first 15 weeks of the 2019 season, the Patriots’ pass defense was historically great. Not so now. What’s gone wrong?
The most shocking game result in Week 17 of the 2019 NFL season was unquestionably Miami’s 27-24 win over the Patriots. New England was playing for the AFC’s two-seed, which they ceded to the Chiefs with the loss, so it wasn’t like Bill Belichick was resting guys out there. And while it was no surprise that the Patriots’ offense was unspectacular — Tom Brady completed 16 of 29 passes for 221 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception, and Sony Michel led the team with 74 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries against the Dolphins’ sub-par defense — it was the performance of New England’s defense that raised some red flags as the defending Super Bowl champs head into the postseason.
Throughout most of the season, it’s been the defense that has kept the Patriots humming while the offense has performed in fits and starts at best. Through the first 15 weeks in 2019, New England allowed the NFL’s fewest completions (261) for the second-fewest passing yards behind San Francisco (2,666), for the fewest touchdowns (10), the lowest completion percentage (56.01%), the lowest yards per attempt (5.72) and the most interceptions (25). The Patriots allowed an opposing QBR of 57.39; the Bills ranked second in that time period at 76.73, You could argue that New England faced a relatively weak slate of opposing quarterbacks overall, but still, on that side of the ball, things were going at a historic level.
And then, over the last two weeks, it seems to have fallen apart. Against the Bills in Week 16 — a game the Pats still won to take their 11th straight AFC East title — and in that Dolphins loss, New England has allowed a completion rate of 60%, 42 completions for 548 yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions, and an opposing QBR of 98.99 — only five teams have been worse over the last two weeks of the season in that regard.
The most worrisome character in this particular regression is cornerback Stephon Gilmore, who looked like the runaway Defensive Player of the Year through the first 15 weeks of the season. Then, he allowed just 38 receptions on 82 targets for 444 yards, no touchdowns, six interceptions, and an opponent passer rating of 32.8. Among cornerbacks taking at least 50% of their teams’ defensive snaps, only J.C. Jackson, Gilmore’s teammate, allowed a lower passer rating.
All of a sudden, opponents like Dolphins receiver DeVante Parker are finding reasons to take the Patriots’ pass defense less seriously. (Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports)
But over the last two weeks — that tight win over the Bills and the upset loss to the Dolphins — Gilmore has allowed nine catches on 16 targets for 180 yards, one touchdown, no interceptions, and an opponent passer rating of 131.5. Among cornerbacks taking at least 50% of their teams’ defensive snaps in that time, only eight have allowed a higher passer rating.
And it’s not just Gilmore. Jackson has been more vulnerable. Safeties Devin McCourty and Duron Harmon have not been as efficient and opportunistic of late. Perhaps most disconcerting for those aficionados of Belichick’s defensive brilliance over time is the seeming breakdowns between cornerbacks and safeties.
The first real example of things going wrong came with 7:25 left in the third quarter of the Bills game, when quarterback Josh Allen hit receiver John Brown for a 53-yard touchdown on a deep over route. The Patriots are running a man blitz here with McCourty as the deep safety, and Gilmore covering Brown in the defensive left slot. Defensive lineman Lawrence Guy forced a pressured throw from Allen, but Gilmore lost Brown on the fake outside to the seam, didn’t pick him back up, and McCourty was out in the weeds. It’s tough to remember an instance this season in which New England’s secondary was this out of sync.
“We kind of thought we had a beat on the play and we tried to be aggressive on it,” McCourty said after the game. “A call I made in the secondary where we try to be a little more aggressive and after you get beat on a touchdown, I came to the sideline and I’m like, ‘We’re not going to run that anymore.’ I think, like always, guys in our secondary, we move on fast and I think we always come to the sideline and understand exactly what it was and why a bad play happened for us, and then we fix it and got right down to it. A call that we liked coming into the week to be aggressive, and they kind of dialed up the perfect call against what we were doing, threw it away and then kept playing.”
Well, if that was a lone rogue incident, we wouldn’t be talking about a downward trend that really blew up against the Dolphins — the same Dolphins team that just fired Chad O’Shea, their offensive coordinator. So, there’s that. Well, in this game, Gilmore was exposed as he’d rarely been in a Patriots uniform, especially by Miami receiver DeVante Parker, who caught eight passes for 137 yards, and most of them against Gilmore.
Parker’s first reception, a 28-yarder from Ryan Fitzpatrick with 7:50 left in the first quarter, was another example of Gilmore in a schematic pinch.
