“You Saw It Stirring Up. You Saw It Brewing.”
April 1st, 2026
Lavonte David recounts unhinged Antonio Brown moments.
We all knew former Bucs receiver Antonio Brown was (and is) a couple of quarts short of a full gallon. And that diagnosis from Bucs fans came only from what we witnessed Brown do on TV.
Lavonte David has stories about what Brown did away from the prying eyes of network cameras that fully cemented how Brown is a whack job.
David, the iconic Bucs linebacker who retired from football last week, hopped on the “Bussin with the Boys” podcast co-hosted by David’s former Nebraska teammate and Titans linebacker Will Compton and former Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan.
Compton asked David what he saw on the bench when Brown had his ultimate (and final) crashout as an NFL player — when during a game he stripped off his jersey and shoulder pads, ran into the end zone topless and starting doing jumping jacks like he was in a Marine boot camp before running out of the tunnel of Met Life Stadium, flashing the peace sign never to be seen on an NFL field again.
David started laughing and said Brown had several incidents at One Buc Palace and in the locker room where David knew Brown was about to blow a gasket.
David just didn’t think Brown would up and quit like he did.
And, boy, David had stories.
“I tell you what, bro,” David began, trying to control a laugh. “You saw it stirring up. You saw it brewing.”
David began recounting stories and they are hilarious. David said Brown once came into the locker room enraged thinking either Tom Brady or Bucco Bruce Arians didn’t want to target him. David thought Brown was off his rocker.
“He came in the locker room and he was complaining how he didn’t score a touchdown,” David said. “I’m like, ‘Bro, what are you talking about? You had over 100 yards.’
“You could see he could just snap soon.”
It also sounded like David was Brown’s personal babysitter. David explained that he had an excused absence one day and the next day when he came back to One Buc Palace and went to meetings, players were begging David to get Brown under control.
“‘Hey, Lavonte, bro, we need you,'” David said. “‘We need you to calm AB down.’ And I’m like, ‘AB? What happened with AB?’
“AB was at practice going crazy.”
David detailed the practice in question (after players pleaded with David to intervene) was a walk-through. But not to Brown, who instead of walking through a play or even a light jog, was full-out, full-blast sprinting on a dead run each play like it was a playoff game.
Whenever Brown caught a pass, he would rifle the ball at people and walk around the practice field cussing out people in his line of sight at the time, including Bucs coaches, screaming at them to get him the ball — in a walk-through practice! LOL
And David later explained — and David is absolutely correct — that Brown quitting on the Bucs likely cost the franchise a third Super Bowl. If you remember, Brown wigging out came after Chris Godwin had blown a knee.
That 2021 Bucs receivers corps was so riddled with injuries, that against the Rams in the playoffs it was Mike Evans, Tyler Johnson, jumping Scotty Miller, scaredy-cat Jaelon Darden and whoever the Bucs could pull off the street to play receiver like John Brown (track star Cyril Grayson was inactive).
You have to laugh not to cry thinking about how Brown helped Pearl Harbor what should have been a historic Bucs season.
And yes, Joe laughed for about 20 minutes hearing David discuss how whacked out Antonio Brown was.
Lavonte David could tell Antonio Brown was going to crash out before “the incident.” pic.twitter.com/iWebURbEQT
— Bussin' With The Boys (@BussinWTB) March 31, 2026
April 1st, 2026 at 12:07 am
That’s not normal.
April 1st, 2026 at 12:13 am
What really torpedoed the Bucs 2021 season was you know who doing you know who things. 45 seconds. On the verge of the greatest comeback in history. Cooper Kupp.
3rd and 28
4th and 14
2-7
61-74
1-3
And we get to suffer for another season of Smarter Than Thou calamities.
April 1st, 2026 at 12:15 am
What really torpedoed the Bucs 2021 season was you know who doing you know who things. 45 seconds. On the verge of the greatest comeback in history. A certain best Rams wide receiver, uncovered when dead Neanderthals buried in a cave knew who was getting the ball.
3rd and 28
4th and 14
2-7
61-74
1-3
And we get to suffer for another season of Smarter Than Thou calamities.
April 1st, 2026 at 1:27 am
That was as a signing I hated from the start.
April 1st, 2026 at 1:34 am
You know Tom Brady knew he was a whack job.
And this guy stayed with them at THIER house.
Brady was great and all, but he would do ANYTHING to win.
April 1st, 2026 at 1:54 am
when you look at that amazing photo above ^^^
it’s crazy how out of touch with reality AB was at that moment…
if you stretch the pic to look at the players, not a single player or ref is looking or glancing at the half naked man, in tights, in the end zone, flailing his hands…
like you’d think people on the field would notice or pause…or something…like when a drunk fan rushes the field or causes commotion…everything kind of stops for a moment…
stretch the pic and look at the people – no one is glancing at AB at all…
maybe his antics over time caused invisibility around people who were focused and moving towards one goal…
it’s so odd, not a soul looked at him ranting in the end zone
April 1st, 2026 at 2:00 am
Looking back on it we all knew he was going to act out eventually – he did help us secure the ring so as much as it pains me id still make that signing 10/10 times
April 1st, 2026 at 2:12 am
Great article Joe!
April 1st, 2026 at 5:50 am
David is incorrect JBF, AB did not cost us another championship, as it was a forgone conclusion that with AB we win it all. Boy, that narrative doesn’t get old at all. What cost us the Super Bowl, 1. Losing Tristan Wirfs at the end of the season. 2. Losing Chris Godwin as well. AB was not 1 for 1 swap with Godwin as Godwin was/is a great blocker and played the Fitzgerald role in Arians offense, probably the hardest injury we struggle to replace during that stretch.
Do any of the fans recall why Brady struggled so much in the Rams game, especially early on? Pass protection was not good, Brady was under duress for most of the game, it was nothing short of a miracle that it held up when he dropped that bomb at Evans in our final possession. Losing Wirfs was huge. The line was going to be a problem the rest of the way, and this offense simply wasn’t going to look like it did the previous season.
April 1st, 2026 at 6:31 am
AB = Shia Labeouf. Very talented at their craft. Nuttier than a Snickers. Neither one surrounds themselves with people that tell them “no”, and their behavior shows it.
April 1st, 2026 at 6:51 am
3.28…………….The AB of Trolls!
April 1st, 2026 at 7:46 am
He still does nuttier than squirrel poop things from time to time. I can only imagine he’s in jail because I haven’t heard anything for a while now.
April 1st, 2026 at 8:04 am
Anyhony Says:
April 1st, 2026 at 6:51 am
3.28…………….The AB of Trolls!
++++++++++++++++++++++
Maybe that IS AB!
April 1st, 2026 at 8:06 am
“He still does nuttier than squirrel poop things from time to time. I can only imagine he’s in jail because I haven’t heard anything for a while now.”
Currently out on bail.
April 1st, 2026 at 8:08 am
Anyhony… 😂
April 1st, 2026 at 8:12 am
kinda surprised jpp or suh didnt straighten AB out…oh well
GO BUCS!!!!
April 1st, 2026 at 8:30 am
Well, when is someone going to straighten out #6, that’s what I want to know, at least AB, helped us to win meaningful games……
April 1st, 2026 at 9:04 am
Lol you can’t straighten out crazy silly
April 1st, 2026 at 9:59 am
AB needs help. Must be a relative of RodMunch?
April 1st, 2026 at 10:10 am
Bittersweet hilarity.
April 1st, 2026 at 10:25 am
Funny? I hope you were being facetious Joe. Would love to get Brady to talk honestly about that ****! I think he knew what a nut job Brown was and did alot to try to keep him from getting his very own rubber room in Tampa as well. Funny? Nah…
Go Bucs!
April 1st, 2026 at 11:05 am
Tough to say if I agree about losing out on another SB cause of AB. It’s possible, guy was an incredible talent. Brady was gonna torch you if you left Evans or AB in single coverage, not to mention Gronk out there.
The end of that Rams game is akin to the Washington playoff loss for me. As hard as I am on Todd, I am torn on his performance as coach.
On one hand… he can’t really be blamed as the reason for losing.
On the other hand… his lack of awareness led to poor decision making that ultimately cost the team.
He just can’t get outta his own way when we need it.
I still maintain that we needed to fight fire with fire vs Wash and he needed to let Coen go to a ball control 4 down offense and keep our D off the field.
And you don’t blitz Stafford. How many articles did we see about Stafford bathe blitz on this site before playing him? You have Tom Brady, a 3-4 man rush there and we are likely headed to OT.
April 1st, 2026 at 11:26 am
It was the final straw for Brady with B.A. It’s what ushered in the Todd Bowles regime. B.A. did mishandle that injury, miserably. A.B. should not have been on that field, to begin with. Should not have even dressed out in the first place. Brady wasn’t going to play another season under Bruce after that. Gronk was never the same again, after that ‘hit’ in the Rams game, and Godwin was already done for the season. We desperately NEEDED A.B. in the worst way, and needed him HEALTHY, for another playoffs run. We could not afford to lose him and definitely NOT like that. Brady felt the same and felt that it really cost us. It DID. And, then Brady refused to play another season with B.A. The relationship had already soured and to the point of no return by then.
April 1st, 2026 at 11:37 am
I’m sure AB has CTE. When they eventually cut that brain open it will be a marshmallow.
April 1st, 2026 at 12:49 pm
CTE and Vontaze Burfict are real ask Junior Seau Go look at that hit again
Big money entertainers stunt men they sign up for it Brown wasn’t that bad before that hit now everybody laughs at him I think its sad
April 1st, 2026 at 1:27 pm
Yup. After that Vontaze Burfict hit, Antonio Brown was nuttier than a fruitcake.
Just the idea of a dude who was as fast as Brown is sprinting in a walk-through practice and hollering at coaches for not getting the ball enough — in a walk-through! — almost brings tears to Joe’s eyes he’s laughing so hard. LOL
Most coaches would have told the guy to hit the showers for doing that. 🙂
April 1st, 2026 at 1:47 pm
CTE is real based on what exactly? A Will Smith movie?
Here’s a most simple, most basic 101-level question for everyone: What is the CTE rate of the general population?
Oh right, no one knows. So how in the world do we know, FOR A FACT, the CTE rate is higher in football players?
Every time some a-hole football player acts out, it’s never that they’re just an a-hole, it’s CTE!
Anywho, here’s my lawyer, pay me. It’s not my fault I blew through my earnings, it was CTE, now pay me.
April 1st, 2026 at 2:30 pm
Don’t worry. They’ll definitely be cutting his head open. We’ll know for sure then. Nobody said he wasn’t already kind of crazy.
April 1st, 2026 at 6:06 pm
Was he high when he played? Could be CTE, he was never right in the head even during his Pittsburg days.