No Thanks! New England Patriots' Trent Brown Snaps Obscene Response to Critics

Trent Brown didn't exactly provide holiday greetings for those who doubt his abilities on the New England Patriots' offensive line.

As they gather around the Thanksgiving table, the greatest blessing for New England Patriots fans might be the fact that there are only seven games left in the 2023 season. 

One of the few consistent on-field blessings for the Patriots (2-8) has been offensive tackle Trent Brown. The fourth-year New Englander is one of the few championship remnants left on the Patriots' roster but some observers believe that the 30-year-old has overstayed his Foxborough welcome, especially when viewing the dire numbers for the sputtering offense (27th in rushing, 30th in average drive length). 

It's safe to say that any who posits that theory won't get a seat at Brown's Thanksgiving table. 

"(Bleep) them. I don’t give a damn about them," Brown said this week to the Boston Herald. "The people that need to know and really know, they see what’s up. Over half, 98 percent of those people who are making those comments or whatever don’t have a (bleep) clue about the game. If you put them out here, they couldn’t do a single rep. Know what I mean? So, (bleep) them, honestly, truly.”

Brown (77) is in the midst of his second term with New England / USA TODAY SPORTS

Online critics weren't the only targets of Brown's wrath: the 2019 Pro Bowler also addressed a report from Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer who claimed that Brown being "habitually late" to team meetings and more were part of his absence from the Patriots' latest loss, a 10-6 slog against the Indianapolis Colts in Germany. 

Brown, who is also dealing with an ankle injury, referred to the report broadcast on the Patriots' NBC Sports Boston pregame show with another expletive and claimed that he's not sure where such an idea would surface. Breer has stood by his reporting.

"Makes no sense ... that it would come when I’m not playing," he said. "But before that I was the best thing on offense. It makes no sense. But hey.”

If anyone has a case to take the Patriots' meaningless final hours seriously, it's Brown, who's due to hit free agency come spring. The ankle injury, however, has complicated matters and has put Brown's status for Sunday's game against the equally woebegone New York Giants (1 p.m. ET, Fox) in question.

Brown didn't offer clarity about his Sunday status but stressed that he won't take the field if he feels he'll be unable to improve his case on both a personal and team-wide level. He hinted that he did so during the Patriots' recent visit to South Beach and that it drastically backfired: New England put up only 218 yards and 13 first downs in what became a 31-17 divisional defeat to the Miami Dolphins.

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"I would love to be on the field and don’t like to miss games, but I also don’t want to be out there putting bad film out and hurting the team," Brown said. "If I’m not able to really be myself and help the team, then it’s the next-man-up mentality. That’s what they get paid to do, as well.

"But I can’t be out there hurting the team, and I feel like that’s what I did in the Miami game. I think that was kind of selfish of me to be out there hurting the way I was, but I was just trying to tough it out for the team.”

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