{"id":72475,"date":"2019-09-07T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=72475"},"modified":"2019-09-07T12:09:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T16:09:55","slug":"antonio-brown-release-oakland-raiders-void-guaranteed-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/09\/07\/antonio-brown-release-oakland-raiders-void-guaranteed-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Brown Released, Oakland Raiders Void Guaranteed Money [UPDATE]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=BrowAn04,BrowAn01&amp;search=Antonio+Brown&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonio Brown<\/a><\/strong> drama cannot get any crazier, it does. Brown took to social media on Saturday morning, asking for his release in an Instagram post. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/raiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raiders<\/a> fined Brown $215,073.53 for conduct detrimental to the team and, in doing so, voided the $29.125 million in guaranteed money on his contract. Additionally, ESPN&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Adam Schefter<\/strong> notes that Brown will not be entitled to termination pay if Oakland decides to move on.\u00a0Brown obviously didn&#8217;t take this well, and it looks like this pairing will be over before it ever really begins.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: The Oakland Raiders have released Antonio Brown<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In addition to fining Antonio Brown $215,073.53 for conduct detrimental to the team that voided $29.125 million worth of guaranteed money in his contract, the Raiders sent Brown a letter that he no longer will be entitled to termination pay if they release him, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1170327996210827265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Antonio Brown: Release Me, Raiders<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Remember when the Raiders fleeced the Steelers by acquiring Brown for &#8220;just&#8221; a third- and fifth-round pick? Brown&#8217;s tenure in Oakland has been nothing short of disastrous. Brown started off on the wrong foot (pun intended) when he suffered frostbite from a cyrotherapy incident gone wrong. He compounded the issue by missing the grand majority of offseason workouts over his preferred helmet.\u00a0<strong>Jon Gruden<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MayoMi20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Mayock<\/a><\/strong> appeared to support Brown early on in this process, but their patience clearly wore this. Mayock famously said that Brown needs to decide &#8220;if he&#8217;s all-in or all-out&#8221; and issues a fine for missing practices.<\/p>\n<p>This clearly didn&#8217;t sit well with Brown, as he posted the letter to Instagram while complaining about &#8220;haters&#8221; in the front office. Brown later confronted Mayock, with some reports claiming he called the general manager a &#8220;cracker&#8221; and that\u00a0<strong>Vontez Burfict<\/strong> needed to break up a potential physical altercation.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Brown reportedly apologized to his teammates for his outbursts and appeared to be back on the right track. However, the former sixth-round pick posted a hype video in which he recorded a phone conversation with Gruden, seemingly without Gruden&#8217;s consent. While Gruden shrugged it off, the Raiders issued another fine and took away Brown&#8217;s guarantees. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffDarlington\/status\/1170328579349143553?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESPN&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Jeff Darlington<\/strong> reported<\/a> that Brown told him via email there is &#8220;no way [he] plays after they took that [guaranteed money].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Antonio Brown era is all-but over in Oakland, and it&#8217;s hard to imagine too many teams taking a risk on a player this damaging to a locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"4jL-P7eoTLF9DzYNT0P83A\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1168647508\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'4jL-P7eoTLF9DzYNT0P83A',sig:'n70T3g-HUPctSXXg20pQjcCD2JvrBitDmRQDsD4rGFQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1168647508',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what&#8217;s becoming a daily soap opera, Antonio Brown demanded his release on Instagram after the Oakland Raiders voided his guaranteed money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":72477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raiders","category-nfl-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}