Eagles

Antonio Brown Already Brainwashed by the New England Patriot Machine

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Sep 20th, 2019 · 9:54 AM EDT

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One of these days, public relations courses at American colleges will have a “New England Patriots” section added to the curriculum, a series of case studies on how the NFL’s most vile team successfully absorbed eclectic personalities and transformed them into simplistic automatons.

It never fails. Guys go to the Pats and in less than a week they’re delivering the most boring and trite quotes to reporters, finding ways to talk around cheating, smoking, tucking, spying, and other unscrupulous activities.

Thursday, Antonio Brown was presented to the media and reporters were cut off after four questions. This is what they asked:

Here's everything Antonio Brown was asked and had to say. Reporters were granted four questions. pic.twitter.com/kPOddk6km5

— Doug Kyed (@DougKyed) September 19, 2019

Check out question two –

What’s it like working with Tom?

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You’re kidding, right?

Nope, that was team reporter Megan O’Brien, who is the Patriots’ Dave Spadaro. Of course she’s not gonna ask about alleged sexual harassment and whatnot, but as a general rule it’s probably best to just take a step back there and let the independent media do their thing.

Here’s the full video clip, which cuts off the first question but runs about 56 seconds. Take this snippet and send it to PR professors around the world:

Antonio Brown speaks for first time with Patriots: "I’m super grateful to be here to play for Bill Belichick, tom Brady, I’ve got a lot of offense to learn to catch up, but I’m excited and grateful to be here and be a part of these guys.” pic.twitter.com/wy8y9818Hc

— Chad Amaral (@Chad_Amaral) September 19, 2019