Brown has claimed he wasn’t able to return to the game last Sunday against the Jets due to an ankle injury and was unofficially kicked off the team by Bruce Arians after telling that to the coaching staff — leading to his shirtless exit from MetLife Stadium.
Arians has said Brown’s frustration was due to lack of targets, and he wasn’t aware of how bad the injury was during the game. Brown said this week that an MRI exam on Monday showed broken bone fragments, a ligament torn from the bone, and cartilage loss, meaning that he’ll need surgery.
“The Bucs did this because they know that Coach Arians’ on-the-field termination of AB was degrading, inhumane, abusive, and unlawful,” Burstyn wrote on Twitter. “So they tried covering it up using their latest trick: ‘Surprise attack’ medical care that they [never] reasonably planned for AB to receive. This was pure gamesmanship for pretextual termination.”
Buccaneers GM Jason Licht told ESPN this week that the team made two appointments for Brown in New York, so they could place him on injured reserve and pay him the rest of his salary. Licht said Brown didn’t return texts or phone calls and failed to send medical records.
