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INDIANAPOLIS There is a line in the delightful new movie centered in the world of profe sional wrestling called "Fighting With My Family" that has resonance in the current circumstances Shane Ray Jersey of competitive sport.

"It's not fake. It's fixed."

Why did this description of WWE-style wrestling make me think immediately of NFL football? Because of Antonio Brown, of course.

Behaving like an immature fool appears to come naturally to Brown, but that doesn't mean in trying to coerce theSteelers to trade him is notscripted.

It is contrived in the pro wrestling manner, in which the action is designed but the intricacies of movement both demand and allow a fair amount of improvisation. Nobody is writing Brown's lines for him word-for-word, but there's an arc to his presentation that is calculated.

His motivation for all this? He is trying to get paid.

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Some are tempted to dismi s his performance as juvenile, but they are as misguided as those who believethe justifications for are rooted in the actions of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger or the management of the locker room by coach Mike Tomlin.

Brown's conduct at the close of the 2018 season and through the Earl Thomas III Jersey first short segment of the offseason was difficult to fathom until he slipped during one of his social media sojourns and delivered the clue: "guaranteed money." The Instagram video in which he revealed this rambled through nineminutes that AB spent on an elliptical exercise machine.

"If your team got guaranteed money, they want to get to know me and work with me,"Brown said,"tell them to call me."

Of course, Brownalready has been paid. A lot. Following the 2016 season, the Steelers signed Brown to a contract scheduled to pay him $68 million over four years, which made him the highest-paid receiver in the league Ed Reed Jersey at that time. It was designed as NFL deals are, with much of the value in the signing bonus and the rest structured primarily to a sist the team with the administration of its salary cap situation.

Brown was presented with a signing bonus of $19 million, representing the guaranteed portion of the deal. His salary for the first two years was a relative pittance, averaging out to $912,500 each year. There is a roster bonus due this March of $2.5 million, andhe is about $12.15 million each year for the next three years.

He has been a Steeler long enough to know if he stays a Steeler through the rest of the contract, then $68 million is what he will make. They Nick Boyle Jersey are not going to renegotiate his deal. They were generous enough to advance him salary multiple times when hedramatically outperformedhis Justin Tucker Jersey first post-rookie contract. He isbeing paid like one of the best receivers in the game.

His salary, however, no longer quite measures up. Odell Beckham Jr. will be pulling down about $15 million in salary and bonuses from the Giants in 2019. In Tampa Bay, Mike Evans will make $20 million in 2019 and $16.75 a year later.

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The problem with Brown's approach is not only that it's disruptive and disingenuous, its also counterproductive. At the NFL Combine last week, Steelers GM Kevin Colbert Brown's value to the team and insisted that even though a trade is the preferred course, he would not rule out ABs return in 2019. Because that's what he must do to keep the market healthy.

But Brown's open aversion to the "unguarantees"of his current deal are making the job more difficult.

After many conversations w/ many different teams personnel folks, it sure sounds like the bigger impediment in an Antonio Brown trade is Tony Jefferson Jersey his expected desire for a new contract, NOT the spectacle stuff.

Other NFL teams see through Browns heel act.

It's easy to understand why those spreading through the media do not Kenneth Dixon Jersey , or do not let on that they do.

The weakest members of the media thrive on this chaos, revel in it, because it disguises their lack of interest in discu sing whatever real i sues might exist. Others are pursuing an agenda, whether it is how NFL contracts are structured or longstanding enmity for the particular team involved, or an individual within that team.

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Brown spent an extended portion of an interview with ESPN last week complaining about a comment from Colbert in which he proclaimed Roethlisberger is the team's unquestioned leader and mentioned "that can be a burden on him more often than he may like to admit because Hes got 52 kids under him, quite honestly."

Colbert noted Roethlisberger is the one player on the roster who has won a Super Bowl with the Steelers and said, "If our players were smart, they'd listen to him because hes been there. He's done it."

Brown doesnt think he should be cla sified as a kid. He earlier complained Roethlisberger criticized him during his weekly radio show for running a poor route on the decisive play in a devastating lo s at Denver.

Do we need to remind everyone we're talking about a player who wrecked a water cooler duringa 2017 game inBaltimore because Roethlisberger mi sed him wide-open for a potential touchdown pa s? Who openly harangued his offensive coordinator in the bench area while the Steelers were losing at home to Kansas City in 2018? And who, in the most calamitous episode of his career, went off the grid late in the week of last season's final regular-season game, a game the Steelers had to win to stay alive in the playoff race? He mi sed a medical appointment, was not in attendance for practice and meetings and did not return telephone calls from team officials.

E sentially, he quit Iman Marshall Jersey on the team.

Now he's trying to insist that's because his feelings were hurt. Whether those in the media selling this absurdity are buying it is impo sible to say. But they're pushing it with such enthusiasm you'd think they're on commi sion.

This situation is not as complicated as Antonio Brown is pretending it is. He wants money. He would get a Chris Wormley Jersey lot if he were to remain a Steeler. He believes itll be more if he moves elsewhere. Hell push whatever story he must to make that happen.

And dont think for a moment that when all this is over he will be wrestling with his conscience about how he has behaved.