Antonio Brown to the Raiders
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr">☠️☠️☠️ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RaiderNation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RaiderNation</a> <a href="https://t.co/ul6lIVk9dE">pic.twitter.com/ul6lIVk9dE</a></p>&mdash; Antonio Brown (@AB84) <a href="https://twitter.com/AB84/status/1104614677013766144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Per source, Antonio Brown&#39;s three-year haul will increase from $38.925 million to $50.125 million, per source. No new years will be added.</p>&mdash; ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProFootballTalk/status/1104616448213823488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Antonio Brown saga is finally nearing a close. Sources say the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Steelers</a> are dealing AB to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Raiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Raiders</a> in exchange for a third round pick and a fifth round pick in this 2019 draft. Brown will also get a reworked contract that makes him the NFL’s highest paid WR.</p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1104617728499949569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

LOL

Perfect. In so many ways.

FAX

lol, wow

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Word on these NFL streets is that Antonio Brown wants $18M-$20M per year on a new deal. Yikes. Good luck with that. What a mess</p>&mdash; Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonLaCanfora/status/1104563097191235585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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They can have him LMAO

Perfect place for this Diva.... LMAO LMAO LMAO

Demands "guaranteed" $$$$ ???

I wonder how many #1s they had to give up.

FAX

lol

The Antonio Brown saga is finally nearing a close. Sources say the #Steelers are dealing AB to the #Raiders in exchange for a third round pick and a fifth round pick in this 2019 draft. Brown will also get a reworked contract that makes him the NFL’s highest paid WR.

So hes getting that while we pay Watkins 19 mil

A 3rd round pick? LMAO

They didn’t give up much, but man why pay a 30 year old diva WR that’s been in a downward spiral mentally instead of guys like Mack or Cooper?

Perfect!

A 3+5 seems like a poor haul. Steelers played themselves.

Cooper had the drops bad for awhile there.

Mack is almost a perfect player though. I would’ve paid him for sure.

Raiders won

Gruden has always favored seasoned vets over young guys.


It’s just his thing I guess.

Both teams lose this trade.

So what does this make Hill worth?

Watkins teammates actually like him

Only 30 mil guaranteed for 3 years wow

104 receptions 15 TDs vs a guy that's always hurt

Had to take whatever they could get.

Benjamin Albright shared a screenshot of a text exchange saying gruden is trying to pull off Brown, Bell and Kyler Murray.

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They flipped Cooper, 3 and 5 for Brown and 1st essentially

This is what I told a buddy the other day. He’s going for the trifecta.

Snicker

Nah. They really could have just told him to **** off, let him work his crazy shit out in the open and told him to make sure to report to camp on time.

The Steelers caved because he was likely hurting rapeman's feelings.

That franchise is emploding with a dumbass coach and getting a 3 &5 for essientally Brown and Bell.

Please Oakland, sign Bell.

Waste that cap space on a diva WR and a RB, who hasn’t played in over a year no less.

I’m sure he can have Bell, but Murray is gonna be a Cardinal.

They will eventually land a 3rd round comp for Bell. But yeah, 2 3's and a 5 is a horrible return for two high end talents.

Right now I'm not concerned in the slightest, because Carr won't get the most out of him. On the otherhand, I really do think they're gonna get Kyler Murray and who knows what to expect.

If they get Murray I personally think it will be a disaster

Maybe some success early on, but nothing sustainable.

Moss 2.0

Well see I think Brown would make Carr a better QB.

On another note I've been critical of Veach but hes flipped Smith for a 2 and Fuller and will likely get atleast a 2 for Ford. Hes gotten more for lesser players than what the Steelers got. Shit forgot Peters too.

Not a great influence to put on a young QB I’d say.

The pressure of Gruden and a whiny receiver who wants 10+ targets a game? Good luck kid. That doesn’t even take into account the possibility of Bell.

Cooper went from Carr to Prescott and blew up that should tell you how bad Carr is

I think the best use for Brown would be deep passing, which isn't something Carr likes to do. I don't think Gruden likes Carr much though.

Yea a 2nd for Peters doesn’t seem so bad now when you look at what Brown got and how Peters played and carried himself in 2018.

My first thought as well

It felt worse having to wait a year, but I’m glad we have it now.

To play devils advocate I think we make the super bowl had Peters played and maybe if Berry were healthy but that's revisionist history talking. Its clear Veach has a plan for the defense and we will see if it gets executed. Just please for the love of god get an impact player in the draft.

Ya Carr is likely gone. I think the Raiders got better with this deal and can challenge for 2nd depending if Rivers declines.

This trade would worry me if Alex Smith was still our QB but yanno...

Keeping him simply wasn’t an option after the shit he did and then asking for a trade

Looks good on paper but I have a feeling the honeymoon will end quickly for Brown in Oakland. Of course they do have a lot of ammo to play with to turn things around but mastering the draft with all those picks is easier said than done.

Absolutely. He was done once he acted the way he did in New York. I have no criticism for Veach in how he handled all of that.

Atleast we wont have to worry about having a DC who covers Brown with Houston 2 times a year.

This isn’t going to end well for Oakland. Mark my words.

I thought Gruden had a chance if he stuck to his guns and kept the no nonsense approach. But once you add Brown and Bell, you’re asking for combustible scenarios. Especially if they aren’t winning or getting their stat sheet filled up.

I think it sends a really bad message to that Locker Room.

Hey we won't pay our elite home grown Defensive End money he rightfully earned and deserved, but we'll gladly hand that money to a guy that we just traded for and has yet to play a down for this team. ****ing idiotic.

Exacty.

You pay the old locker room cancer over the young best defensive leader that’s one of the best in the business?

Pretty much. And then they’re gonna fork over another $12M+per year to Bell in all likelihood.

Things could get really messy in a hurry.

I think most of the roster has been shipped out since Gruden took over so it wont matter much

Agreed. I don't even think success early. Gruden would be a disaster or Murray, IMO.

Not Fisher bad, but close.

I don’t think it will effect the locker room, but it gives me the sense that Gruden lacks direction in building a roster.

I think Murray will have a chance in Kingsbury’s system to be successful. Seems like a good fit, and Fitz would be a great leading influence to ease him in.

But Oakland, under Gruden, AB, and potentially Bell? Yikes x a billion.

I disagree he will have Brown and 3 first round picks. They will be better and I dont care that hes a diva the numbers dont lie. The only reason I'm not worried is because they dont have a QB anywhere near Mahomes and their defense is 2 years away from 2 years in being any good.

You are overvaluing the skill guys.

The Giants had Beckham, who is better than Brown, and Barkley was really ****ing good at RB and were ****ing terribad.

WRs and RBs don't mean a goddamned mother****ing thing without a QB and OL.

The Raiders haven't improved there.

I personally think Kingsbury is a bad coach. But at least he understands young signal callers and can create an environment to support them, not the tough guy bullshit that Gruden tries to pull.

Brown isnt an improvement over Seth Roberts, Jordie Nelson or whatever trash they ran out there? Give me a break.

Jesus Gruden is worse than Del Rio. I actually thought he was building something in Oakland slowly through the draft but wow.

He's a complete tool with no plan at all lol. So glad he signed a 10 year deal.

Way to totally miss the point.

The Giants HAD great skill guys and were ass.

If you have a QB and OL that can let them work, they kick ass. If you have ass, you get ass.

Yup, I heard that mentioned in one of their last games of the year. Hes basically already purged most of the Mckenzie era players. So as far as holdovers having their feeling hurt, well there wont be many there that will.

Right? This just doesn’t read well to me. It feels more like a ticket seller than an actual team improvement move.

You’ve preached getting younger and bringing in your own guys through the draft, and now all of the sudden you want to bring in the two biggest ass clowns in the NFL of the past year? WTF?

It’d be different if they were a 9-7 team last year right on the verge of potentially contending. But they may not even have a legit QB for a long time.

Exactly.

This is a win now move. It doesn’t make sense.

Literally in the OP my man

It’s the worst precedent you could set for a locker room.

Did not see that. My bad man. I will delete it

Congrats to Gruden/Mayock for humbling Brown and teaching him a lesson.....

JFC the world is not fair.

Elite players run the league see Rodgers. Probably will only get worse after the next CBA.

Oh ****ing hell. I forgot Mayock went there.

LOL.

Not the moves I’d be making if I were trying to show everyone I was more than an just some shitty TV analyst

Raiders have a shit ton of picks and cap space

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mike Mayock’s first deal as <a href="https://twitter.com/Raiders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@raiders</a> GM is to acquire Antonio Brown and make him the highest paid WR in the game just 2 months after he was reported to leave his team hanging in a must-win game.<br><br>Now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d type.</p>&mdash; Rich Eisen (@richeisen) <a href="https://twitter.com/richeisen/status/1104625450968506368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Well, less now, of course.

OH BOY KC MUST BE SHITTING BRICKS NOW!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Martavis Bryant and Antonio Brown were both traded from the Steelers to the Raiders in the past 11 months. Apparently the difference between them is one 5th round pick.</p>&mdash; Riley McAtee (@RileyMcAtee) <a href="https://twitter.com/RileyMcAtee/status/1104634672460509184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

By trading Brown, the Steelers will be forced to swallow $21.12 million in dead money against their salary cap, according to a source. It's thought to be the largest dead-money charge in NFL history.

Did we sign that son of a bitch yet

Well Gruden's doing it his way...he's got the keys to the family wagon.

And he's going to have a decade to do it, and in a new stadium before too long.

He's going to have a ton of cap room and early draft picks for the next few yrs. It's going to be a long process....and maybe he's in way over his head, but if he hits HR's on his draft picks, in about 5yrs OAK "could be" good.

I mean they better be...because trading Mack and Cooper as it stands right now, looks like a stupid move.

Have fun in last place ab.

Landon latest number is at 88% he'll sign with KC before Friday.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Was told the Eagles had inquired but weren&#39;t major players. In the end, the options were limited for Pittsburgh. Oakland hung around with the modest offer and that got it done.</p>&mdash; Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/JFowlerESPN/status/1104640309311520768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>