3 NFL teams who missed out after Antonio Brown Buccaneers signing

If Brown wasn’t joining the Buccaneers, the most likely destination would have been to the Seattle Seahawks. With head coach Pete Carroll in charge, the Seahawks have the football culture capable of handling a tumultuous personality like Brown. Seattle is geographically isolated from the rest of the NFL, so it’s all about football there, and Carroll uses this to his team’s advantage.

Brown would put up prolific numbers with NFL MVP frontrunner Russell Wilson rifling him the pigskin. Seattle hasn’t lost a game yet this year. The Seahawks will make the NFC playoffs like they do just about every season, and they’ll probably do so as one of the very best teams in their conference. Brown would have elevated receivers D.K. Metcalf and Tyler Lockett even further.

The two reasons the Seahawks may not have brought Brown in are he may been seen as a luxury item in what may be the best passing offense in the NFC, as well as potential chemistry issues. That’s not to say Brown would be a bad fit in Seattle culturally, as he’d fit in just fine. It’s more about there being too many mouths to feed in a ground-centric offense and Seattle is humming as is.

Perhaps the biggest reason the Seahawks may end up kicking themselves over not signing Brown is that he now joins another NFC contender down in Tampa Bay. There’s a good chance Seattle and Tampa Bay will meet in the NFC playoffs in January, possibly in the NFC Championship game for all we know. If he went to an AFC team, it’d be no big thing, but he just signed with the Buccaneers.