Antonio Brown takes a shot at Steelers’ former Pro Bowler who was minding his own business
Antonio Brown will go down as one of the best players to ever wear the black and gold. There's no debating his tenure with the Pittsburgh Steelers, where for six years, his play rivaled the best to ever play the position. But ever since he's left the Steel City, he's been more known for what […]
Antonio Brown will go down as one of the best players to ever wear the black and gold.
There's no debating his tenure with the Pittsburgh Steelers, where for six years, his play rivaled the best to ever play the position.
But ever since he's left the Steel City, he's been more known for what happens off the field, and his recent shot at Steelers returner Cordarrelle Patterson proves as much:
AB Calls out Steelers over jersey number
“They ain’t really got the respect for me that I think, or the respect that you think you earned," Brown said on Twitter/X spaces recently. "That could be trauma in itself to know just like, damn. I gave my life to the Steelers and these guys don’t even give a shit about my body of work. They will just give a random guy who scored kick returns, who never even got 1,000 yards as a receiver ever in his career [my number over] a guy that was number one in history.”
Part of me sees where AB is coming from. How many number seven jerseys have you seen since Big Bren retried?
That's right zero.
And AB was a generational player in the league. His 837 receptions for over 11,000 yards and 74 TDs are unlikely to ever be surpassed by another Steelers WR, or at least not in the foreseeable future.
But AB doesn't have the two Super Bowl rings that Ben does, and I'm not going to say Ben was a Boy Scout, but he certainly wasn't the headache that AB was during his time in Pittsburgh, which was largely mitigated by the staff in place and the tight-lipped nature of the organization.
And man, if you're Cordarlle Patterson, you're probably looking around like, "What did I do to you?"
In defense of Patterson, he's been a hybrid of WR and RB and found tremendous success as a back when used in Arthur Smith's scheme down in Atlanta.
He won't be battling Najee Harris and Jaylen Warren for snap counts out of the backfield, but it's not a coincidence that he was signed minutes after the NFL announced the new kickoff rule.
Patterson isn't just any other returner. We're talking about a 4x Pro Bowler, 4x All-Pro, and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame 2010s team. So while AB might feel disrespected, maybe he should put some respect on Patterson's name.
