Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown isn't about the dirty hit life. After the team's game with the Cincinnati Bengals, the receiver talked about what goes around, coming back around.

First the context: JuJu Smith-Schuster blind-sided Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict, which resulted in the Cincy player being left prone on the ground injured.

Ready to get weird? Let's go!

Via Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, as JuJu Smith-Schuster talked to reporters, and apologized, Brown kept talking about “karma,” and said he’d pay any fine his rookie teammate might receive from the National Football League.

Asked if the karma talk was related to repeat offender of the league’s safety rules Burfict, Brown replied:

“I ain’t talking about nobody. Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things, you get the wrong things out of it.”

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Sure seems like he was talking about Burfict. Why else bring up karma in a conversation about dirty play?

Smith-Schuster’s regret was the taunting, since it cost them a penalty.

“I was just playing to the whistle,” he said. “I didn’t mean to stand over him. I was trying to get a big block for Le'Veon Bell for him to get upfield. The unsportsmanlike conduct is not me. I shouldn’t have done that. I hope he’s OK and I hope he gets better.”

In a game with violence being inherently built into its foundation, it shouldn't be all that weird when it spills over to aspects of the game people prefer it not to be around.