Steelers receiver Antonio Brown made headlines last week for his rather emotional talk with the media on Day 1 of minicamp, an annual 3-day event for which attendance is mandatory.
One of Brown’s issues had to do with the scrutiny he faced for previously skipping out on several OTAs — annual sessions that are anything but mandatory.
It’s true that Brown’s decision to take time away from OTAs to, as he put it, get his mind right, made him look like a hypocrite on the heels of his remarks about the OTA absence of Le’Veon Bell, who’s in Year 2 of an ongoing contract dispute with the Steelers: “The first rule of getting better is showing up.