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Former Houston Texans left tackle Duane Brown was a guest on the “Now What? with Arian Foster” podcast with his former teammate this week, and he gave some revealing details about his (mostly negative) experiences in Houston, according to an article written by Matt Young of the Houston Chronicle on Thursday.
Brown, who was traded to the Seattle Seahawks after he sat out all offseason and the first six games of the season due to a rift over a potential contract extension with the Texans, opened up to Foster about his fallout with the Texans and team owner Bob McNair.
“It was bigger than football for me at that point,” Brown said. “I was disrespected. I can't walk in that building and only f—ing play football. You have to interact with these people at some point. I'm not one of those people that can just f—ing fake my way through that s—. I can't. It was just too far gone, and the departure was needed. The relationship was just f—ed up. It had nothing to do with me wanting to get out of Houston or leave my teammates. Not at all.”
The 32-year-old Brown, who was the franchise left tackle for Houston since he was selected in the first round of the 2008 NFL Draft, has been selected to the Pro Bowl three times, including this season with the Seahawks.
Article Continues Below“I wanted to finish my career there, and I wanted security doing that,” Brown said. “I made it known right at the end of the season. There was no conversation throughout the whole offseason about it, which is why I didn't show up to anything. There was a conversation around minicamp where they said we can't do deals with two years left, but they've done it before. Basically they were like, ‘We've done it before but you're not worth that.' So, I'm like, ‘OK, well, I'm not coming to anything then.'”
Brown really wanted to finish his career in Houston but didn't because there was no more guaranteed money left in the remaining two years in his contract with the Texans.
“I could have went to training camp that year, got injured, and I didn't have any guaranteed money on my contract, so I could have got cut right then, and that would have been it,” Brown said.
The full podcast hosted by Foster with Brown as his guest, which was uploaded on Valentine's Day, can be listened to in its entirety on iTunes and Soundcloud.
