Florio: Chance Steelers Refuse To Trade Antonio Brown To Avoid Setting Precedent

By Matthew Marczi
Posted on February 15, 2019

The dominant story of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offseason will continue to be The Antonio Brown Situation™, the fact being that that might not even change once there is a resolution. No matter which way the end result goes, it will shape the Steelers’ season, and perhaps the next several seasons, so it’s going to be a focal point and a target for criticism.

With Brown recently pretty much making it publicly known that he has asked the Steelers to trade him, there is been the large presumption that the team would do just that. After all, why would you want somebody who doesn’t want to be there. Mike Tomlin said something to the effect that he’s looking for volunteers, not hostages.

But would it totally be out of character if the organization went a different way? Not for Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, who said that he believes it’s still possible the Steelers will balk at trading him in order to avoid setting a precedent.

“The Steelers’ way is to tell players how it’s gonna be. And it’s very out of character for the Steelers to be in this position the past two years with Le’Veon Bell and Antonio Brown, where the players are telling them how it’s gonna be”, he said.

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