The Oakland Raiders are not seeing eye to eye with Antonio Brown right now and according to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the team plans on suspending him. Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk thinks the Raiders might just be releasing all this information, and they don't actually plan on suspending him.

This comes following an offseason filled with drama that all boiled over when Brown posted on Instagram on Wednesday that he was being fined for missing practices during training camp.

According to several reports, general manager Mike Mayock and Brown got into a heated exchange that included Brown punting the football away from Mayock and telling him to fine him for that.

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Florio thinks that all of this is a public attempt for Brown to have one more chance to decide if he is all in or all out from the Raiders.

It’s entirely possible that the Raiders have leaked their plans in order to give Brown one last chance to get, as G.M. Mike Mayock put it last month, “all in or all out.”

Mayock has been the bad cop to coach Jon Gruden’s good cop, and as we discussed during Thursday’s PFT Live, good cap/bad cop doesn’t always work. Brown quite likely has been confused by the mixed messages from a coach who supports him and a G.M. who chastises him. Given that the Steelers took a good cop/no cop approach to Brown, it’s the first time he’s ever had to deal with any type of accountability.

Maybe the Raiders are just trying to publicly shame Antonio Brown, but that hasn't ever changed his acts in the past. If the Raiders want to get across to Brown, suspending him is probably the only way, and then again that might not even work.