Brown was always a selfish, whiny loudmouth. As I recall, one year, he held out through training camp, then signed right at the star of the regular season. He reclaimed his starting job right away - a huge coaching error, in my opinion - and began playing before being properly physically-conditioned.
The result was an almost-immediate high ankle sprain that kept him out for several weeks. Playing out-of-shape was damaging to the team and a thumb-in-the-nose to Lions fans.
I was very happy to see him leave the team.
Sorry about the multiple posts. Seems to happen whenever I use this godforsaken iPad!