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Antonio Brown will either be great for the Raiders or destroy them before they move to Vegas

[Antonio Brown] is so weird and so bizarre that he's either going to be great for the team or he's going to destroy the team before they move to Vegas.

Antonio Brown effectively destroyed his tenure before it started, being released before the first game after a series of bizarre incidents. 'Destroyed the team' is the correct half of the binary.

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Mar 11, 2019
#13033
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Antonio Brown is the hero to the working man

[Antonio Brown] is the hero to the working man... he basically signed a contract two years ago, got a bunch of guaranteed money, when the guaranteed money ran out he's like 'I want a new deal' and then he got it.

While subjective, the 'working man' label for a multi-millionaire WR is ironically intended.
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Mar 11, 2019
#13035
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Derek Carr will not be the Raiders' quarterback going forward; Jon Gruden will draft Kyler Murray

There's no way that Derek Carr is going to be the quarterback going forward, right? I'm saying [Jon Gruden] is going to get Kyler Murray. I think he's going to put all those chips [in the middle].

Derek Carr remained the Raiders' starting quarterback until 2022, and Kyler Murray was drafted #1 overall by the Cardinals.
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Mar 11, 2019
#13039
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The Steelers with Bell and Brown were the greatest fake dynasty of all time

Can we say the Steelers had the greatest fake dynasty of all time with Le'Veon Bell and Antonio Brown? Yeah, and at various points they had the best wide receiver, best running back, and a top five quarterback all at the same time and won absolutely zilch.

They never reached a Super Bowl with the 'Killer Bs' era despite elite statistical production.

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The Ravens' fourth-quarter problems are moving earlier

Historically, the fourth-quarter Ravens have not been a great team. That fourth-quarter Ravens has started to creep its way into the third-quarter Ravens. And I think eventually it's going to keep creeping earlier and earlier in the game. I don't think it's going to get better because the defense does not look good.

This is a season-long assessment that can only be judged against Baltimore's eventual 2026 performance.
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Baker Mayfield has a real revenge game against Cleveland

This is like a big Baker revenge spot too. This is not a made-up Baker—I have a perceived slight against me because some team didn't trade for me when I was on the market. This is Baker Mayfield against Stefanski, and they haven't talked since he left Cleveland.

Whether the personal history materially affects the game is subjective, though the stated public grievance is part of the episode's context.
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The NFL should reduce the season to 16 games

I'm going to say it. I think that 17 games is too much. I like the scarcity. I like if you brought it back to 16, because the NFL's also been playing this game for a long time where they have to find safer-looking ways to do a dangerous activity.

The preferred NFL schedule is a policy judgment, though the player-safety rationale is grounded in the discussion's cited study.