Why did Antonio Brown go from apologizing to asking the Raiders to release him? Because he felt that the team slandered him
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of NFL Network.“Told me do not come in Thursday. Bad my name. Then come work,
give two papers after the press conference. No guaranteed no way,” Brown wrote
in the text.In other words, Brown is saying that when he went before the team
and apologized this week, he believed he had done enough to smooth everything
over. But after that, the Raiders put out word that they were fining him for his
confrontation with General Manager Mike Mayock, and voiding his guarantees. At
that point, Brown no longer wished to play for the Raiders.He got his wish and
is now done in Oakland. We’ll see if any other team is willing to put up with
Brown’s antics. Certainly not for anything close to what he would have been paid
by the Raiders. ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Mike Mayock is used to being under the
spotlight on NFL draft weekend.As the lead analyst at NFL Network, Mayock spent
so many hours on the air each draft for more than a decade analyzing prospects
and critiquing picks made by the 32 teams that he sometimes even lost his voice
before the weekend was over.Mayock’s vocal cords won’t get quite the same
workout this year, but he will be under far more scrutiny when he takes center
stage starting Thursday night in his new role as general manager of the Oakland
Raiders.With three first-round picks (Nos. 4
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premium selections and this little experience making them.“I don’t really worry
about it in all honesty,” he said. “The way I look at this thing, from a ‘how do
people perceive me’ perspective, is a lot of people doubted that anybody should
come out of the media and go be a GM for any team. I know that, and I get that,
but at the end of the day here’s the deal, if we win everything will be fine and
if we lose I’ll get fired, and I’m perfectly fine with that.”Mayock grew up
around football as his father Mike Sr. was a coach at the Haverford School and
the University of Pennsylvania.That taught him from a young age to watch
football in a more analytical way instead of primarily as a fan and gave him
some insight to the mindset of coaches, which has come in handy leading up to
this draft.Mayock says he has spent countless hours with the Raiders position
coaches and coordinators to learn what traits they look for in players and he
understands that he must balance the desire of coaches to fill all the needs on
a roster with the approach of a scout looking for the best available
players.“That’s my guy. Mike and I, we go back to 20 years, 25 years
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interests. And unfortunately I don’t have any other interests other than
football. Neither does Mayock. So we have a lot of fun talking about just every
aspect of football, all the time. And his relentless effort, his enthusiasm, has
energized the building and it’s a blast.”Mayock also has the perspective of a
player, having been a safety at Boston College and playing briefly for the New
York Giants where he learned under current Patriots coach Bill Belichick.After
his brief career, Mayock went into commercial real estate while dabbling as a
broadcaster covering local high school and college games in the New Jersey area.
He advanced to do some CFL and college games for ESPN and CBS before finally
getting his big breakthrough in 2004 when he was hired by the NFL Network as its
draft analyst.Mayock quickly developed into a television star in that role,
spending 14 years as a well-regarded draft analyst where coaches and executives
around the league sought out his opinion as much as Mayock tried to gather
information from them.Those pre-draft conversations are still happening but
happening in a much different way.“I think when you are a coach’s son and you
kind of grew up going from field to field to field, breaking down tape by the
time you were 8 years old. I think the coaches and the scout’s kind of open up
to me because of that around the league,” Mayock said.“Those relationships I
value, but at the same point now it is a little bit different, and I think it’s
already changed. We kind of lie to each other a little bit instead of just
sitting there and opening up our draft boards.”Mayock knows this job is new to
him and is spending the last few days preparing for whatever might come his way
during the three days of the draft.Besides finalizing the team’s draft board, he
worked out the smaller details
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exactly where everyone will be sitting during the draft, made some changes to
what information will be available in the room and then tried to simulate what
it will be like when the team is on the clock for real starting Thursday
night.“I’m going to have people calling in on the phones and trying to get Jon
and I rattled and propose trades,” he said.“Let’s be honest, I haven’t done it
before. So, if I’m going to evaluate myself, I have to make sure I’m prepared.
There’s two minutes left on the clock and three phones are ringing and there’s a
trade, what is the process? How are we going to react as a team? Where is
everybody even sitting in the room? What’s the feedback? How quickly am I going
to get the information on the trades and the point values?“So, there’s a whole
bunch of stuff and I’ve kind of got it, I said to Jon, it’s game week. We want
to get in there and practice our game plan no different than the team would for
a Sunday game.”
