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"Free agency started last night and was pretty crazy some huge money being spent. Osweiler getting £18m a year for the Texans, leaving the Broncos without a QB, Giants have spent a fortune on good but not great players, Oliver Vernon has more guaranteed money than JJ Watt. lots more deals but cant be bothered to list them all."

Miike. I with you regarding the overall game. But Goodell is only as powerful as the owners let him. I think he would love nothing more than hammering certain teams who basically bend the rules to breaking point. (Looks over towards Foxborough.) But like the Premiership cash rules. And while it's raking it in very little will change.

"the more I think about the speed of this deal, the more I think I was spot about it being engineered and corrupt as fuck. as years progress, I lose more and more interest in a league that's rigged as fuck. don't think so, just watch some officiating of games of how goodell deals with certain teams in regard to bans"

"I mean brown has always been known as the hardest working receiver in the nfl, thats how e went from a late round pick to arguably the 3rd best receiver in history. Issue with alot of receivers coming into the patriots is that the playbook is so complex and full of ""option"" routes, i have no doubt he can work hard enough to pick up the system its just if he has the attitude for it, the ""patriot way"" is a million miles away from what he's used to, if he can accept being a cog in the larger machine then it could ve great. I just cant see it happening, i see him saying something in a press conference he's not supposed to and Bill coming down on him and the whole thing blowing up"

Hopefully he gets on well with Josh Gordon.

"Well that just makes the AFC fucking YAWN again this year. Got signed suspiciously quickly, too."

I stick my neck out now and say he end up Super Bowl MVP. He's that type of character who enjoys giving the bird to everyone. He has now got the fuel to light his fire.

"Could go either way, i could easily see him being on the patriots for less than a week"

"Just feels like brown had become radioactive to most teams and nobody would even consider him If there's one team who can bring him in and put him under heel its the patriots, i do worry if this goes wrong what impact it may have on josh gordon"

Takashi Miike 12:05 Sun Sep 8 It does smell badly of a set up right down to all the helmet bollocks earlier.

Brown's agent has been a busy (and no doubt mightily rewarded) boy.

"not something to celebrate, you have to wonder if they engineered this. who knows, but it just made them cunts a lot stronger"

BOOM.! What did I say. Should have been a betting man. Brown agrees a one year deal with the Patriots.

Do the Patriots regain any cap space when Josh Gordon has his annual weed relapse?

"So many of them are absolute bell ends, though Brown is probably the best WR in the NFL at the moment. I do like that regardless of how good players are, the owners/coaches etc never take their shit as much and happily fuck them off, where as footballers get away with murder."

Scorch that's evil. Teaming up with OBJ would make Cleveland have more Diva's than Paris during fashion week.

Be entertaining to see him on the browns. But what a headcase.

I reckon he takes the pay cut. Teams up with Darth Vader and the Emperor. Wins the Vince Lombardi trophy next year. Then publicly tells everyone he's the greatest WR ever. And we can all go and fuck our selves.!

*only $9m available*

RBshorty 8:11 Sat Sep 7 Or Sean Payton But it will probably come down to salary cap. Do the Patriots have room?

"what do they do regarding money, only $9m available, probably defer the bigger stuff to his second/third year?"

Crystal will hate me for it. But I can see Brown ending up with the Patriots. He's the type of basket case Bill Belicheck loves to get the best out of.

"he's been released, shorty"

Brown has come out and apologised. Of course he's going to play. Even Brown not a big enough idiot to walk away from £15 million for not showing up.

"the dolphins, too have plenty of space but do they want to win a game this year"

"I'm not surprised, he seems too high maintenance for most coaches/gms. looking at cap space, the colts & browns have the most money available but I don't see cleveland needing him, so his options could be limited"