When Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown (AB) had a meltdown on the sidelines of Sunday's win over the New York Jets, everyone thought the same thing… “here we go again!” and they were not wrong to jump to those conclusions. From his treatment of anyone who has ever worked for him to his use of a fake vaccine card, Brown has proven time and again that he is an extremely selfish individual. That portrayal of Brown took another turn in the wrong direction on Sunday when he was asked to go into the game by his head coach, Bruce Arians, and he felt that he could not do so without injuring himself further. Arians proceeded to tell Brown to leave the sidelines and instead, AB decided to quit on his team entirely…or so we thought.

While taking your shirt off, smiling, and laughing as you walk off the field on your teammates is a bad look regardless of the circumstances, there is always a second side to every story and it is finally starting to come out today. In an emotional post earlier today, Brown detailed how bad his ankle injury is and it does not paint a good picture of Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians. With potential seeding implications on the line and his team trailing to an undermanned New York Jets team, Arians ordered Brown to return to a game that he was medically incapable of going into.

Because of Brown's history that we documented earlier, Arians was clearly on the shortest of fuses when it came to Antonio. The media has been on Arians' case recently just for allowing Brown to be a part of the team after his suspension for using the fake vaccine card. Arians, who has well-known medical issues including being a cancer survivor, most likely wanted to cut Brown from the team but he knew that the implications to his team–and from the NFLPA would be so drastic that it wouldn't be worth it. Simply put, Arians had no choice but to support Brown in his return from the suspension and was waiting for the first chance that he had to get rid of him with no egg on his face.

Arians got that chance on Sunday when AB refused to return to the game and he didn't waste the opportunity. The issue for Bruce–and ultimately the Buccaneers– is that Brown was playing through a serious ankle injury. This could lead to questions from the NFLPA about what exactly went on during the sideline conversations with Brown and Arians. If what Antonio is saying is correct, and the medical issues turn out to be legitimate, then Bruce Arians is 100 percent the bad guy in this situation and he deserves to be punished for it.

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Arians may not like how Brown put him and the team into a bad position with the fake vaccine card and the negative attention that has come with it, but there is no excuse for demanding injured players to go into the game. This will prompt the league to look into the issue, at the very least and that should provide more follow-up information on what punishment Arians and/or the Buccaneers organization will get for their actions. If they do indeed find that Brown was incapable of coming back into the game, then AB was just a martyr in the crosshairs of an angry Arians. While Brown may have done some things that the entire world population disliked, he did not deserve the treatment that he got.