The eccentric wide receiver speaks out after his expulsion from the Bucs. He refutes the statement of his head coach Bruce Arians, according to which he did not know about the Brown injury. The accusations weigh heavily.

Munich/New York – Antonio Brown has reacted for the first time to his scandalous departure during the game at the New York Jets and heavily accused the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and especially Head Coach Bruce Arians.

In a statement he released, the eccentric wide receiver leveled serious accusations against Arians, who allegedly forced him to play despite a serious ankle injury.

When he refused after several attempts, the coach told him: “That’s it for you” – and allegedly made a neck-down gesture with his finger.

Brown publishes chat history and refutes Arians statement

That Arians denied afterwards at the press conference that he had known anything about Brown’s injury was “100 per cent false”.

To confirm this, Brown went a step further a little later and published the chat history with Arians in a Twitter post.

Health over Wealth Barbarian pic.twitter.com/5pxjpZ6491

– AB (@AB84) January 6, 2022

This clearly proves that Brown told his head coach about his injury before the game at the New York Jets. Arians wrote: “This is bullshit. Make sure you’re fit for tomorrow. We’re not saving anyone for the playoffs.”

Brown responded a little later, “Coach, I can’t get up to my full speed. I want to win, I want to be there. When I wake up tomorrow and feel better, I’ll be ready.”

Brown now captioned his post: “Health over Wealth”. He also added the hashtag “Barbarian”.

The head coach of the Bucs is now in need of an explanation.

Dismissal probably during the game

He justified his jersey removal and running off the field into the locker room during the game in his previous statement by saying he was fired by Arians during the game. “They threw me out like an animal,” Brown wrote. After that action, he said, he no longer wanted to wear the Buccaneers’ jersey.

Brown disclosed that he had already had an MRI done on his injured ankle and it clearly showed bone chips, a ligament torn from the bone and cartilage damage.

Brown had those scans evaluated by two specialists in New York City, including one at the Hospital for Special Surgery – the same hospital where the Bucs now required him to be examined.

However, the Bucs would have referred him to a resident while he would go to the “top doc. “

Brown: “Like a second-class citizen “

He said he was very disappointed and hurt by this action by the Bucs. Especially to portray him as the bad guy now. He admits to his past misconduct, but his past does not make him a second-class citizen.

“First they fired me, now they want to lock me up,” Brown wrote. Instead of asking him how he was doing or getting to the bottom of it, he said, they presented a completely false and twisted story to his agent, portraying him as if he had just flipped for no reason.

“I don’t understand how people can stand up in public and say they are concerned about my mental health but do things like this to me in private,” AB elaborated.

Still, Brown expressed gratitude for his time with the Buccaneers. Being part of a team that won the Super Bowl was a dream come true for him, he said. He reminded his fans that he was far from being written off.

He will first undergo ankle surgery and when it is over, “I will be back at 100 per cent.