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Maybe Ben shouldn't call folks out in the media and save that **** for the locker room. Or was Brown too busy streaming on Facebook?

Maybe Ben shouldn't call folks out in the media and save that **** for the locker room. Or was Brown too busy streaming on Facebook?

i dont know what goes on in the locker room but i assume this approach was already tried and not successful. you dont go to the nuclear route immediately

“I 100-percent agree with him (regarding what Roethlisberger said about AB),” Clark said. “Antonio has done an extremely good job of tricking people, right? He has that smile and when he talks he seems extremely team and oh, this is a great team guy and he always shows up to play. He didn’t holdout last year to get his money. So he’s done a very good spin-job of having us think, or making people think who dont know him, that it’s like all about the Pittsburgh Steelers. I’m just a hard worker who’s here to win football games.”

“Nah, Antonio Brown loves Antonio Brown,” Clark said. “And Antonio Brown was upset, God forbid, that a guy that has over 10 targets in the first three games of the season is missed one time. Just know that he behaved in a way… if Odell Beckham Jr. does this, it’s on every station, right? It’s on every single show. And for me, I think it’s actually different than any of Odell’s outbursts. Everything Odell did, to me, was an implosion. He was just going nuts because he couldn’t figure out any other way to better express himself. He wasn’t going at coaches, he wasn’t arguing about not getting the ball, he wanted to win games and he wanted to be a part of winning games.

“This [Antonio’s situation] is, you miss me one time on a play I could of scored a touchdown that would have helped me. Not would have helped the team, it would have helped me. God forbid you check the ball down to Le’Veon Bell, Oh my goodness, that’s the worst thing in the world. Lev might get the ball, I can’t take it, I’m going to pass out. So you can’t behave that way because the quarterback came off his read a little early and you were wide-open. This is who he is. I said that is who he was last year when it came to the phone thing. I don’t dislike him, I have no issue with him.”

“If you listen to people talk about him, if you listen to the media, a lot of time the fans, they have an adoration for him that is not necessarily a depiction of who he is,” Clark said. “He’s like most receivers, he’s selfish. And you can see from last year in the locker room he’s also self-centered. And I can actually say I don’t think it’s malicious and mean-spirited though. I think that’s just who he is. If you listen to his story, this is a kid that would pay 20 dollars to sleep in a hotel because he had nowhere to live. And so, I think all he’s ever known is Tone has to get it, Tone has to get it and when something like this happens that affects him, he didn’t care that he didn’t score a touchdown for the team, it affected him, he had an issue with."

Clark was then asked how he thinks Brown’s recent antics are going over in the Steelers locker room right now.

“Nobody cares,” Clark said. “100 percent.”

Clark was asked if Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin is just used to Brown’s ways now.

“Just used it and the difference between the feeling for Antonio outside the locker room and inside is they actually know who he is,” Clark replied. “So for other people, because he’s never had this happen on the sideline before, this is like oh my goodness, like I cant believe it: Antonio Brown behaved this way?”

Thank god hockey is back tonight.

Trying to deal with him in the locker room has obviously (and logically) been attempted before. The collective shenanigans of AB, Bell, and Bryant has seemingly eroded Ben's desire to continue his career beyond the most immediate future. He's in his last attempt to win a third Super Bowl and is in full "**** it" mode when it comes to dealing with irresponsible and/or self-absorbed teammates. I don't care what Ben says in the media about Brown because unless he says he's "literally Hitler" he's not wrong. Dude is an incredible receiver and also a massive piece of ****, an issue which is further exacerbated by BFF Tomlin's refusal to discipline star players. His Facebook Live punishment should have extended beyond a fine that is the equivalent of $50 to a normal person and his ass should have been plastered to the bench after launching the water cooler onto the field Sunday.

AB being a pre madonna

AB being a pre madonna

AB being a pre madonna

I'm guessing this was ironically done...I think? Which poster was it that used the spelling "pre madonna" before and was befuddled when they were called out?

But Shazier has proven his play improves as he stays healthy, which he's been since the second half of last season. His preseason interception against the Colts was one of five in a six-game stretch dating back to last year. On Sunday in Baltimore, Shazier was constantly in Joe Flacco's vision for four pass deflections and a fourth-quarter interception.

How did he get here? Shazier said viewing the game through the prism of pass coverage revealed new dimensions.

"I started asking DBs questions about things," Shazier said. "We just talk about the route concepts, getting a better idea what the team likes to do in the passing game instead of knowing what they are doing in the running game. It gave me a bigger perspective of what certain formations they might run, allows me to be in better position."

AB being a pre madonna