SANTA CLARA, Calif. — You don’t need a doctorate in psychology to realize that the exact metabolic strain of outlandish confidence we’ve come to appreciate in Steelers MVP Antonio Brown gets channeled just as reliably, and this season even more durably, by Emmanuel Sanders.
“He’s a lifer in Pittsburgh,” Sanders said about Brown at a gathering of Denver Broncos in the ramp-up to Super Bowl 50. “They’re never gonna let AB go.”
Steelers management isn’t likely to confirm that for public consumption just yet, but it’s in full acknowledgment of the logic.
Sanders still talks to Brown often, and to former Steeler Mike Wallace, the three of whom comprised the team’s comet-bright “Young Money Crew” receiving corps, the rocket that broke apart in that ever-unstable galaxy known as the NFL salary cap.