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As expected, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was NOT HAPPY that Antonio Brown shared his locker room speech from Sunday on Facebook.
In case you missed it, after the Steelers’ win Sunday over the Chiefs Brown shared a Facebook Live stream from the team’s locker room where Tomlin was heard calling the New England Patriots “assholes.”
It went a little something like this…
“When you get to this point in the journey, not a lot needs to be said. Let’s say very little moving forward. Let’s start our preparations. We spotted those assholes a day and a half. They played yesterday. Our game got moved to tonight. We gonna touch down at 4 o’clock in the fucking morning. So be it. We’ll be ready for that ass. But you ain’t gotta tell them we coming. The chest pounding. Keep a low profile.”
Today, Tomlin met with reporters and naturally the video was brought up. Also, naturally, Tomlin was a little pissed off about it.
Mike Tomlin on Antonio Brown video: Like to say the language on the video is regrettable, by me and by others
— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) January 17, 2017
Tomlin: "That's why we go to great lengths to preserve certain moments & interactioins between us"
— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) January 17, 2017
Tomlin: "As a parent, as a member of the community I take that very seriously. I issue an apology in that regard"
— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) January 17, 2017
Tomlin: Have absolutely no worries on the video's effect on the game, on the Patriots, on the Steelers. Game is too big
— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) January 17, 2017
Tomlin: Antonio Brown . . . "it was foolish of him to do that, selfish and inconsiderate. It was violation of our policy, league poilicy"
— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) January 17, 2017
Tomlin: Will punish Antonio Brown, internally, and may be consequences from NFL in that regard.
— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) January 17, 2017
Tomlin: He has to grow from this. He works extremely hard, he's extremely talented and those things get minimized with incidents like this
— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) January 17, 2017
Tomlin: He's a great player, respected largely in the locker room but incidents such as this don't help him in that regard
— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) January 17, 2017
Tomlin: That's often why you see great players move from team to team. Don't want that to happen to Antonio Brown.
— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) January 17, 2017
Ouch. Was that a veiled threat to one of the best receivers in the NFL? Hmmm…
Tomlin: Haven't seen AB yet. "I will see him at some point and when I do, I will address it."
— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) January 17, 2017
As for what Bill Belichick thought of the video, well, he was typical Bill…
On @WEEI, Belichick asked about Tomlin's a-hole comment: "As you know I'm not on Snapface and all that so I don't really get those."
— Phil Perry (@PhilAPerry) January 16, 2017
More from Belichick, who loves screwing up the names of social-media platforms: "Not worried too much about what they put on InstantChat."
— Phil Perry (@PhilAPerry) January 16, 2017
Yeah, Belichick is too busy at his “new job” to worry about crap like that…
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— Mike McVay (@MikeMcVay) January 17, 2017