Whew, what a relief. Here I was thinking that getting off to a winless start to an otherwise promising season, that included a tie against the beleaguered Browns and a flat out pelting from the arm of a quarterback making his third career start, would have the Steelers acting out of character. How wrong I was, as it looks as though it's still business as usual in Pittsburgh! Granted, that business is a dysfunctional one that allows players to do and say whatever the hell it is that they want as their head coach shrugs his shoulders like he's calling whatever confused defense his team played against Patrick Mahomes yesterday. Still, consistency is supposedly a good thing, and not much has changed since a training camp in which Antonio Brown threatened to assault a reporter for questioning the exact type of character he displayed in sulking back to the bench after someone other than him scored a touchdown for the Steelers yesterday. Therefore, Pittsburgh is in midseason form if you ask me, even if that form is something you'd expect to see punished by way of a middle school detention...
In all seriousness, the argument that Antonio Brown is the lucky one in the union between him in the Steelers is one that could literally only be made by the pissed off PR person who spent seven straight seasons trying to clean up the messes made by the most dramatic of diva. It's undoubtedly Ben Roethlisberger that should be on bended knee thanking the man above that, in the 6th round of the NFL draft, his team happened to stumble upon a transcendent talent who undeniably increased his margin for error. Antonio Brown more than likely would have developed into 'AB' no matter where he ended up, as a quarterback that can't throw to the most gifted receiver in the league is a quarterback that's not long for the league. Ben Roethlisberger, on the other hand, might be facing quite a few more questions if the completion percentage of his long passes wasn't fluffed by someone who fights above his weight class when it comes to attacking the ball in the air. Now, I don't think Antonio Brown really wants to be traded. Never mind that his suggestion that they move him was obviously a tongue-in-cheek challenge, because only organizations that are in a much worse position to win than the Steelers would let him get away being so shamelessly self-involved. In that sense, Antonio Brown is lucky that Pittsburgh took him, as only their carefree culture would have remained complicit in the creation of an absolute monster of a millennial. Had he gone to a franchise whose head coach didn't allow him to play Rufio to a locker room full of lost boys then he may have been forced to develop some semblance of maturity and/or professionalism by the age of 30. God forbid, as he seems to have enjoyed taking lessons from Mike Tomlin in bitching, moaning, and pointing the finger elsewhere whenever he doesn't get his way.
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