Brandon Marshall, September 2016: “I learned a lesson from Chicago Bears locker room tirade”; December 2016: Throws tirade in New York Jets locker room

Some people think Brandon Marshall fits the diva wide receiver mold to a tee... Others point to his mental health battles and give him more leeway than they do others.

Regardless of the adjectives used to describe him, one thing cannot be debated: When he has an opinion, more often than not he’s going to share it, and it won’t always come out in the most dignified way.

We all remember the 2014 season where Marshall went off in the Chicago Bears locker room after an embarrassing loss to the Miami Dolphins, setting off a chain of events that ultimately led to Marshall being traded in the offseason. Some people reported it had nothing to do with his locker room presence, others said it was strictly contract related, and others reported it was because he was being asked to discontinue his television appearances until the team started winning.

Regardless, he was sent packing to New York, and as recently as this past September (that’s September of 2016... four months ago), Marshall says he had learned a lesson from his locker room tirade back in Chicago.

Marshall said he learned from an incident Oct. 19, 2014, in which he screamed in the locker room after the Bears lost at home to the Dolphins.

“What I’ve learned is that not everyone responds to that the right way,” Marshall said. “The best way to get guys together, to galvanize your team is to take the visible emotions out of it because that is the only way you can reach them all. But once you start taking it to another level with anger and rage, then you lose people.

“I learned that, I learned that in Chicago a couple years ago when I came in the locker room after a game and I had tears in my eyes, I’m like, ‘We are better than this…’ and I couldn’t understand why guys didn’t understand it. Until I sat down with my teammates and they said, ‘Brandon, you are too high.’ And that’s when I learned.”

Well, an entire four months later, we’re hearing reports of another locker room tirade, this time with the New York Jets.

Outspoken wide receiver Brandon Marshall delivered a fiery halftime rant on Saturday that irked some teammates, according to team sources, and might have raised tensions in the New York Jets' locker room.

"When we're getting blown out at halftime, there's no reason to be fighting amongst each other," Jets safety Calvin Pryor told ESPN.com. "I think that's why guys were upset because we needed to be fighting against the Patriots, instead of the Jets."

Marshall's halftime tirade might explain why New York defensive end Sheldon Richardson ripped him after the game.

When reporters told Richardson that Marshall had described the 41-3 loss as "embarrassing," Richardson replied, "He should be embarrassed. ... No reason. He just should be. He knows what he did."

Good to know Marshall learned his lesson on how to galvanize his teammates.

Stay tuned...