Antonio Brown’s walk-off strip show was a bizarre but appropriate ending to his Buccaneers tenure. Removing his jersey was the only way to get the Bucs to see him for what he really is.
For two years, the Bucs sold us the fallacy that athletic success is a reflection of character and that Brown’s performance meant he had made personal progress. The two most important people in the organization, Tom Brady and Bruce Arians, both peddled that nonsense at times. The reality is that when the Bucs signed Brown, he was a great football player with a recent history of damaging and destructive behavior.