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The Raiders personal it’s time for Antonio Brown to Schutt or salvage off the pot. As outlined by his agent, Antonio Brown doesn’t agree that the time has procedure to take a brand new helmet and transfer forward — or to proceed away from the game.

“We’ve labored very closely with the Raiders, and we are in a position to continue to work very closely with the Raiders,” agent Drew Rosenhaus mentioned Sunday night time in an appearance on WSVN-TV. “I’m no longer sure that we agree that we’ve exhausted the total ideas, as [Raiders G.M.] Mike Mayock mentioned. However there’s miniature doubt it’s mute an ongoing process. We try to work with the crew and the league and the union to intention abet up with a resolution. We haven’t figured it out but. To verbalize that AB is upset relating to the resolution to no longer let him wear his helmet is appropriate, but we’re mute processing it and figuring it out. I wouldn’t execute too valuable about him no longer being there this day, as valuable as we’re mute searching to intention abet up with a resolution that works for each person.”

From the perspective of the crew and the league, the perfect viable resolution appears to be to be deciding on a helmet model from the menu of permissible helmets. So what other ideas exist that may presumably enable Brown to continue to wear a Schutt AiR Revenue?

At this point, possibly the most efficient (and possibly perfect) alternative probability often is the submitting of a brand new criticism that challenges both the resolution to expedite testing of the Schutt AiR Revenue in verbalize to execute that total helmet model, which previously had no longer been prohibited by the league, a banned helmet model and the resolution to no longer give Brown a one-twelve months grace period to half out of his helmet of alternative.

The argument would be a straightforward one. First, the NFL had never banned the Schutt AiR Revenue till Brown found out quite loads of devices that will be recertified to be utilized by NOCSAE on story of they were lower than 10 years old. As soon as Brown identified, and exploited, the obvious loophole emerging from final Monday’s criticism ruling relating to his extra-than-10-years-old helmet, the NFL moved fleet to discontinuance the loophole by testing, and failing, the Schutt AiR Revenue on the total.

Peek at it this form: If the categorical helmet Brown had extinct since coming into the NFL in 2010 had been made that twelve months, he’d mute be in a location to wear it this twelve months, on story of it’d be lower than 10 years old. The NFL had never flagged, examined, or banned the Schutt AiR Revenue till Brown challenged the league’s location on carrying a helmet that is bigger than 10 years old. Then, once Brown realized that he may presumably additionally mute wear a Schutt AiR Revenue that turned into lower than 10 years old (certainly, final Monday the Raiders suggested Brown’s camp that the league had mentioned he may presumably additionally), the NFL came up with a means to disqualify the Schutt AiR Revenue on the total, and entirely.

Remaining twelve months, the NFL banned bid helmet devices previously extinct by avid gamers esteem Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Though these helmets had been particular to be unfit for extra use by NFL avid gamers, the NFL gave them a pudgy soccer season to process that resolution, to discover picks (as Brady did, on a frequent foundation embracing a brand new helmet sooner than reverting to the old one, several times over), and to in spite of every little thing take a brand new helmet after the one-twelve months grace period expired. Brown, whose helmet model of alternative wasn’t prohibited by the league till behind final week, isn’t getting that identical courtesy.

These are the nuances that are being glossed over by of us that non-public that Brown is merely being a toddler relating to the scenario. At the tip of the day, the Brown criticism — and his seemingly viable approach for an quit glide — resulted in the league waking up to the truth that it had never examined the Schutt AiR Revenue for that that it’s possible you’ll presumably remember placement on the banned helmet model checklist, speeding to salvage that testing done, and then refusing to give Brown the an analogous one-twelve months transition period that others got after it turned into company that their very personal most in model helmet devices had been banned.

For as flimsy as Brown’s first criticism turned into, his second criticism — if he pursues it — would be valuable stronger.