Cardinals wide receiver Marquise Brown makes a catch during training camp practice Aug. 9 in Glendale, Ariz. (Ross D. Franklin, AP)
When the Ravens face the cardinals on Sunday evening, the open receiver establishes "Hollywood" Brown will not play. But it will be a subject of conversation.
The Ravens exchanged Brown, the first selection of the draft of Eric Decosta as general manager, Arizona for a selection of the first round during the opening evening of the April draft. The national television match on Sunday will be Brown's first overview on its former team. And while you are happy with the scene change after Silely requesting Baltimore at the end of last season, he does not believe that his old team is missing.
"This is happy", brown declared the website of the Cardinals team Wednesday. "I want to feel that I am part of something to win. In the ravens, I felt that sometimes they really didn't need me. It doesn't matter whether it is or not, they were going to win matches.
"I love the game too much. I want to participate. »
Brown, who led all the Ravens receivers last year with 91 trapped for 1,008 yards, expressed his dissatisfaction with the offensive of the Greg Romance coordinator. At the end of April, brown said in the podcast "I am athlete" that "the system was not for me, personally". The national team of the first 2018 first round was attacked 146 times in 16 games last season, the third most of the history of the Ravens and the tenth among the players of the NFL in 2021.
Brown did not have a sweet beginning in his mandate of the cardinals. The start of the training camp was lost with an injury against the hamstrings and was arrested for criminal speed earlier this month . However, in Baltimore, the sudden departure of Brown did not weigh much in the minds of his former teammates. Ravens' open receiver, Rashod Bateman, said that Brown "will always be my brother" and that he is delighted to see what he can do in Arizona.
Otherwise, it is the company as usual for the receptors of the Ravens Pass.
"This did not affect us as much," said Bateman, a selection of the first round in 2021 which arrived in Brown as the best receiver of the Ravens. “Obviously, losing was definitely a great loss for us, but I think the room has increased. We are close, we work hard and we press everyone to make them great. I think that's all you can ask for a group, so we have certainly done it. "" Baltimore Sun Jonas Shaffer contributed to this article.
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