Former NFL receiver Antonio Brown was formally arraigned on Monday, on a charge of attempted murder. During the hearing, prosecutors confirmed a point made here over the weekend.
Brown faces a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
Via the Associated Press, Brown appeared by videoconference for the arraignment. His lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh, reiterated Brown’s prior plea of not guilty.
During the hearing, Assistant State Attorney Stephanie Cruz said the involvement of a firearm doubles the 15-year sentence for second-degree attempted murder. She also confirmed that the charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years.
The incident happened at a Miami celebrity boxing event in May. Eiglarsh said Brown used a personal weapon and fired shots that were not aimed at anyone. The broader defense is that Brown was defending himself from a physical attack and robbery attempt.
Brown has been placed on house arrest pending trial. The next hearing is set for December 22. No trial date has been set.
The Buccaneers were able to take the ball away from Josh Allen and the Bills three times in Buffalo on Sunday, but none of those takeaways came in the fourth quarter of the game.
After Sean Tucker’s touchdown run put the Bucs up 32-31 with 13:38 to play, the Bucs gave up back-to-back touchdown drives of 86 and 70 yards. Those scores pushed the Bills to a 44-32 win and the inability of the defense to get off the field rankled head coach Todd Bowles.
“You score 32 points, you’re supposed to win the game,” Bowles said, via the team’s website.
Allen threw for three touchdowns and ran for three more while creating a number of big plays over the course of the afternoon. Bowles said the reasons for the breakdowns varied and that the team has a lot to clean up as a result.
“Sometimes it’s coverage, sometimes it’s pass rush,” Bowles said. “But at the same time, it’s got to get fixed. We’re playing hard, but then we have lapses here and missed tackles there, and we give up big plays. That’s what happened in the second half and two times in the first half. When we’re covering, we can’t get to the quarterback; when we get to the quarterback, we’re covering wrong on the play. We’ll get that fixed going forward.”
The Bucs have now lost three of their last four game and hold a half-game lead on the Panthers in the division heading into another tough road game against the Rams in Week 12. Bowles said he thinks the team is in a “good place mentally” as they try to fix what’s been ailing them, but the proof will have to come on the field for the season to end with another NFC South crown.
Bills wide receiver Keon Coleman was a healthy scratch on Sunday. He and coach Sean McDermott confirmed that Coleman was late to a meeting on Friday.
It was Coleman’s second offense of the season, prompting McDermott to bench the 2024 second-round pick.
“That was my decision,” McDermott said, via video from Alex Brasky of SBnation. “It is disappointing, but I still believe in the young man. We get to a certain point, and I’ve got to do something. I try and give the guys a kind of a strike approach. ‘Hey, you get a chance to show your teammates that’s not really who you are.’ When it happens again, then I step in. I believe he will learn from it. He takes it seriously. He will move forward in a way of growing from this, and that’s the whole goal.”
Coleman, who has 32 receptions for 330 yards and three touchdowns, accepted responsibility in a postgame interview with beat reporters.
“I’ve got to be better, doing what I’m supposed to do, doing the right things,” Coleman said, via video from Matt Parrino of syracuse.com.
Coleman said he didn’t think there was a lesson to be learned from sitting out the win over the Bucs.
“Mistakes happen; things happen,” Coleman said. “Again, got to be better.”
The Buccaneers and Bills went back and forth for much of Sunday afternoon in blustery Buffalo.
But only one team has Josh Allen, and that made a clear difference.
Allen accounted for six touchdowns — three rushing, three passing — on Sunday in Buffalo’s 44-32 victory over Tampa Bay.
The Bucs held leads of 26-21 and 32-31 in the second half. But Allen scored a 5-yard, go-ahead touchdown with 9:06 left in the fourth quarter.
Then the Buccaneers elected to punt on fourth-and-2 from their own 39-yard line. But that led to Buffalo bleeding the clock and scoring on a 9-yard run by Josh Allen with just 2:35 left in the contest.
With at least one touchdown passing and rushing, Allen tied Cam Newton’s regular-season record with 75 such games.
Allen finished the contest 19-of-30 for 317 yards with three touchdowns, two interceptions, plus six carries for 40 yards with three TDs.
The Bills’ three turnovers — Mecole Hardman also muffed a punt return — helped keep the Bucs in it. Plus, Tampa Bay was running the ball well all day, as Sean Tucker led the way with 106 yards on 19 carries for two touchdowns, plus two catches for 34 yards with a TD.
But the pass game didn’t get going, as Mayfield finished 16-of-28 for 173 yards with a touchdown and an interception.
Now at 7-3, the Bills will be on the road for a quick turnaround, playing the Texans on Thursday night.
The Bucs will again be on the road, playing the Rams in Los Angeles next Sunday night.
Back and forth the Bills and Buccaneers go, with Buffalo going back ahead on a Josh Allen touchdown run early in the fourth quarter.
Allen’s second rushing touchdown — and fifth total TD — put the Bills ahead 37-32.
The Bucs had responded well from Baker Mayfield’s interception, as the quarterback connected with running back Sean Tucker — who is having a huge day — for a 28-yard touchdown.
But the Bills didn’t take too long to go back ahead, capping an eight-play, 81-yard drive with Allen’s 5-yard score.
The drive was nearly over on third-and-11. Allen threw to Curtis Samuel on the right sideline, with the receiver bobbling the ball before falling out of bounds. While the pass was initially ruled incomplete, it turned out Samuel got both feet down in bounds before hitting the white of the sideline.
A few plays later, Allen was able to run it in for the go-ahead score. Allen was not able to connect with fullback Reggie Gilliam on the two-point conversion, keeping the Bills’ lead at five points.
On the injury front, Bills receiver/returner Mecole Hardman has been ruled out with a calf injury.
