Raiders GM to absent Brown: Time to be `all in or all out'

Oakland Raiders general manager Mike Mayock told disgruntled receiver Antonio Brown it's time to decide whether he's "all in or all out" about playing this season after losing a fight with the NFL over his helmet.

Mayock issued a statement to reporters that the Raiders released in a video on Twitter expressing his frustration that Brown didn't participate in practice Sunday despite being healed from the frostbitten feet that have sidelined him for most of training camp.

Brown also lost a grievance with the league to allow him to use a helmet that is no longer certified as safe. Brown had hoped to find a newer version of his preferred helmet that could be approved but Pro Football Talk reported that the league determined the helmet failed a test.

Mayock says Brown i s still upset about the "helmet issue" but the Raiders have done everything they could to help him. Mayock says there are "89 guys busting their tails" and that he hopes Brown will join his teammates soon.

Coach Matt Nagy said Pineiro had not necessarily won the job for the regularseason opener against Green Bay on Sept. 5.

"I want (players) to have the mentality that Eddy is going to be that guy, but we're getting to that point right now where you're getting toward the end of the training camps where there's going to be transactions for a lot of different teams at a lot of different positions," Nagy said.

Elsewhere

Colts: Indianapolis will put receiver Daurice Fountain on season-ending injured reserve with a dislocated and fractured left ankle. The second-year pro was injured on a running play during Thursday's joint practice with the Browns. He could be heard screaming in pain before he was put on a stretcher, driven off the field on a golf cart and taken to a nearby hospital. Other players turned away quickly when they saw Fountain's injured leg. Giants: Wide receiver Golden Tate III has been placed in concussion protocol. Tate sustained the concussion Friday night in the Giants' 32-13 preseason victory over the Bears. It was not a great week for the 30-year-old Tate, who learned earlier in the week that his appeal of a four-game suspension to start the season was upheld by the NFL office. Tate insisted that his failed drug test was due to him taking the fertility drug clomiphene. Tate was prescribed the drug by a physician, whom Tate now plans on suing. The doctor apparently told Tate that he prescribed clomiphene to four other NFL players who were not suspended.