Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown went on social media

Schutt AiR Advantage helmet made in the last 10 years and his hunt has borne fruit.Brown’s agent Drew Rosenhaus said on Tuesday afternoon that Brown has found a new model of his preferred helmet. Brown’s old helmet was no longer certified by the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment because of how old it is Chris Lindstrom Jersey , which led Brown to file a grievance against the league that he lost on Monday.The helmet still needs to be re-conditioned and re-certified before Brown can use it in practice or a game. Rosenhaus also said there was never any thought to Brown retiring if he was barred from using his old helmet.“It wasn’t [Antonio Brown’s] intent to leave the team for the period of time that he did,” Rosenhaus said, via Scott Bair of NBCSportsBayArea.com. “He has always had a good line of communication with the club. Actually the Raiders and the NFL are working closely to get the helmet issue resolved.”Once the helmet issue is fully resolved, there’s still the matter of getting his feet well enough to return to action. Rosenhaus didn’t delve into details about that, but said it was a bigger reason for the wideout’s absence from Raiders camp. Brown’s back at camp now, but it still remains to be seen when he’ll be fully back to work. FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP)Not being in the limelight has never bothered Kyle Van Noy. He didn’t start a NFL game until his third season when he was with the Detroit Lions, and even then was thought of as a role player. So now being considered one of the leaders on a Patriots defense that is on the cusp of making a return trip to the Super Bowl seems somewhat out of place for the fourth-year linebacker as he heads into Sunday’s AFC championship game against Jacksonville. ”I’ve been in so many situations since I’ve been here,” Van Noy said of the increased role he’s had in New England. ”I mean going deep in the playoffs last year and then playing all of the games this year. … Each and every game there’s different situations http://www.atlantafalconsteamonline.com/kaleb-mcgary-jersey , different scenarios that come up. So I would say that my awareness has gone up a lot since I’ve been here.” The same could be said about his value. When linebacker Dont’a Hightower went down with a season-ending torn pectoral muscle in the Patriots’ win over the Falcons in Week 7, it left a void in the side of a defense that entered 2017 young and inexperienced up front. New England had already given up 30 or more points three times to that point and was ranked 23rd in the NFL in scoring defense, allowing 23.7 points per game. Van Noy began the season starting at outside linebacker alongside Elandon Roberts in the middle and Hightower at the other outside spot. But when Hightower went down, the coaching staff asked Van Noy to handle multiple roles, playing both on the edge and middle of the field at times. Safety and defensive captain Devin McCourty said that the 26-year-old showed glimpses of that versatility even last season. It’s why it wasn’t strange for him to see Van Noy tackle the responsibility of receiving the defensive play call from the sideline, another role that he’s inherited with Hightower out. He flourished in them all, and over the final nine weeks of the season New England got stingier on defense. By the end of the season it was allowing just 18.5 points per game – the fifth-best mark in the league. Van Noy missed three of the final four games with a calf injury, but still finished the regular season third on the team with 73 tackles and second with 5+ sacks. Van Noy’s sack total was just a half-sack short of Hightower’s career-high of six in 2014. ”It helps our defense out a lot, and he’s one of a lot of guys on our defense that have been able to play different positions that allow us to do different things defensively Kendall Sheffield Jersey ,” McCourty said. ”He’s been a leader, he’s run the huddle kind of since he’s been in there.” Coach Bill Belichick said continuity and execution has improved all over the defense, with lots of contributions from Van Noy and others such as Trey Flowers, Marquis Flowers, Adam Butler, Deatrich Wise Jr. and Ricky Jean Francois. ”Some of the guys that are playing now weren’t playing. If we had had this conversation in the middle of the season, you wouldn’t be asking about them,” Belichick said. ”They’ve stepped into different roles and they’ve worked together more, gotten a better feel for each other http://www.atlantafalconsteamonline.com/john-cominsky-jersey , execution’s better, so it’s good.” Van Noy said any success he’s had is simply a product of his environment. ”There are a lot of superstar defensive players that aren’t even talked about,” he said. ”When I was with the Detroit Lions there was a guy named DeAndre Levy who never made a Pro Bowl, but who everybody knew, if you played football, who he was. There are situations like that all the time. And there’s teams that have really good defenses that aren’t talked about. We’re one of them.” NOTES: The Patriots placed defensive back and special teamer Jonathan Jones on injured reserve. They also announced the signing of receiver Bernard Reedy. Reedy was a member of the Patriots’ practice squad. —