‘After Brown showed up late for a practice leading up to the finale at New England, the coaches decided to leave him off the game-day roster. Thus ended a streak of 71 consecutive starts, leaving Brown disgruntled with the only franchise he ever had known. “My mistake was probably being too vocal,” Brown said. “The things I was thinking, I didn’t have to take them public. If that’s what they were upset about, I can probably understand. “But things weren’t working there, and it was frustrating. It was like they were only worried about my complaining, not the things I was complaining about. So yes, we parted ways on kind of a sour note.”‘