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  • they essentially said, We're gonna build this team are on the offense.

  • We're gonna build it around.

  • Russell Wilson And he might be getting a great weapon.

  • He's already, of course, God.

  • Tyler Lockett.

  • He's got D K.

  • Metcalf.

  • And now perhaps Antonio Brown.

  • Pete Carroll said.

  • They're kicking the tires on Antonio Brown.

  • And by the way, the Seahawks aren't the only team doing it.

  • They're gonna have toe hold off a couple of other teams to sign A B.

  • We're waiting to see who those teams might be.

  • Just a quick rundown on what's happened to, of course, Antonio Brown.

  • Just to show you key.

  • How much has happened?

  • This guy has been on three teams in a span of seven months.

  • Let's go to pre pandemic.

  • Can you remember life pre pandemic?

  • March of 2019?

  • The Raiders finally say, Look, we're gonna take it on.

  • They trade for him.

  • So march 9th, 2019.

  • He's a raider.

  • September 7th.

  • I'm free to remember that video, so that's September.

  • Not very smart, but going two days later, he signs with the Pats.

  • Then he has a great game with Tom Brady, and the Pats balls out in Miami and 11 days after they signed him, they cut him.

  • So essentially, he was on the Steelers, the Raiders and the Pats, all in a span of seven months last year.

  • Now he's been sitting out.

  • He's got an eight game suspension to start the season.

  • Here we are approaching week number seven.

  • So if Seattle or anybody would sign him key, it would be his fourth team in 19 months.

  • What do you make of it?

  • I'm okay with it.

  • You know Antonio Brown's problems or not?

  • On the football field, he certainly has a Hall of Fame resume.

  • It was heading in that direction.

  • Z, The problem with a B has been, you know, the off the field issues that continue to come up doing that time span when you look at it, if Seattle is to make that decision, that this is something that they really want to do, this decision has been made.

  • They're doing, they're investigating.

  • They're doing all the things that they need to do to check it out, to make sure it's the right fit.

  • He has a relationship with both quarterbacks, and Gino Smith, as well as Russell Wilson worked out with them in the off season.

  • When you look at Seattle, you look at it and you go, huh?

  • How does that fit?

  • How does that work?

  • Russell Wilson and Antonio Brown.

  • Polar opposite you would think someone in people's minds.

  • But you gotta look at the organization and you gotta look at John Snyder and you gotta look at Pete Carroll.

  • John Snyder, general manager of Seattle, and Pete Carroll, the head coach.

  • Pete Carroll has a history of 2nd and 3rd and 4th and 1500 chances for guys that he believes in, whether it's in college football at USC or whether it's been his tenure up in Seattle with the Seahawks.

  • He's taken on guys and risky behavior, uh, through the draft as well as through free agency.

  • He traded for Marshawn Lynch that people said it wasn't a bad guy.

  • Look how that worked out for Marshawn Lynch in Seattle.

  • Brought him back.

  • Brought him back a couple of times.

  • I believe you look at, uh, some of the players and legion of Boom that that question their character worked out for him, he went got Josh Gordon.

  • In fact, he's looked at Josh Gordon.

  • Several times since they had to release him to bring him back because they have things that are in place in Seattle and they believe helping guys as much as they can.

  • And I think there's some some some leadership in Seattle, not just in the football field but in the organization.

  • That certainly could help a guy like Antonio Brown.

  • When you go to the field, you match him with, uh, Tyler Lockett, who is one of the top three, maybe 34 slot receivers in the game.

  • The young D.

  • J.

  • Metcalf.

  • You got David Moore and Greg Olsen, those 54 guys with a BU slide in there, a B.

  • It's kind of like everything's there, There's the cake.

  • We got those four guys.

  • That's the case, the ice and is on it.

  • Now I'm getting ready.

  • Go put it on the table and I think to myself, How could I make this cute and make everybody want to eat it?

  • You go to the pantry or your Cabinet, you come out with those little Sprinkles.

  • All the kids like and the kids go crazy.

  • That's what a B is gonna be for the Seattle Seahawks in that office.

  • He's that Sprinkle that.

  • Everybody goes.

  • Wow, Man, that thing really looks good now.

  • That's what he could do.

  • He can lift the coverage for D.

  • K.

  • Metcalf.

  • He could lift the coverage for Tyler Lockett.

  • He's not going to be, and I and I know how people are.

  • First thing they think it's gonna be a problem.

  • He's gonna want the football, all of those things and those narratives that they want to set for him.

  • That's not going to be the case in Seattle.

  • It's just not you.

  • Go back to that time line.

  • One of the major issues in Pittsburgh.

  • Waas.

  • He wanted this damn money.

  • They decided not to give him his money.

  • One of the major issues in in the Raider town was defeat.

  • The feet started the cryotherapy chambers.

  • Remember that everybody cryotherapy chamber started it all.

  • Frozen feet, frozen feet.

  • So then it became a problem.

  • Then he got into it with May act, the general manager.

  • So that became even more of a problem.

  • Then all of a sudden, the off the field stuff came up because he was a model citizen, so to speak in New England for those two weeks that he was there.

  • Hey, he actually stayed at Tom Brady's house.

  • And so it was.

  • It was kind of like, OK, everything worked out.

  • We cool.

  • He went to Miami.

  • He called the touch now, had about 57 yards on the X amount of catches, and then they fired him.

  • And then he went ham on Mr Kraft.

  • So it was kind of then he had the truck incident with the moving company, so it was kind of like everything was firing out of control.

  • Sometimes when you miss something so bad, you get your act together and he's missed football.

  • For those amount of months that you mentioned, he's been out of the game.

  • The game is gonna move on.

  • It's like an assembly line.

  • One gets on, the other gets off.

  • They're not stopping.

  • And so maybe for him, he's woke up now and said to himself, I've got to become a better person in a better situation.

  • The one thing that I do know, if he was a problem on the football field, Russell Wilson wouldn't go to bat for me.

  • They wouldn't work out with him.

  • Football players don't work out with guys that are problematic and get in the way of their success.

  • They just won't do it.

  • They're not gonna arkestra workouts and throw to him and bring him to the house.

  • But not gonna bring that into my family.

  • He may have some off the field issues that he got to deal with, but on the field, he's a plus for Seattle.

  • If they decide that, that's the direction in which they wanna go.

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they essentially said, We're gonna build this team are on the offense.

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