It should come as no shock that a New York Jets player isn't backing down from a good argument.

Earlier in the week Antonio Cromartie bashed the union and the league for the way negotiations are going for a new collective bargaining agreement.

On Thursday, a tweet on Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck's account said: "Somebody ask Cromartie if he knows what CBA stands for."

The tweet was later removed but not before Cromartie found out about it.

He responded Thursday afternoon with a tweet that said: "hey Matt if u have something to then say it be a man about it. Don't erase it. I will smash ur face in."

Hasselbeck later apologized for his initial tweet.

"Sorry for the joke man. No hard feelings," a tweet from his account said. "DB's & QB's have a hard time getting along I guess sometimes. lol."

That exchange came after Cromartie battled a couple of other NFL players.

Ray Lewis and Darnell Dockett had called out Cromartie for his critical comments Wednesday, and he responded that night.

"I don't give a who about Ray Lewis or [Darnell Dockett] talking about what I said," Cromartie said in a message posted on his Twitter account, according to the New York Daily News.

"There's 10's of thousand ppl who will lose jobs. They taking our healthcare away and for players that have surgery can't even get rehab once March 3rd gets here."

Cromartie ripped the league and the union Monday for the state of negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement. If the sides cannot come to terms, players could be locked out when the current CBA expires March 4. Cromartie is a free agent, so his future is uncertain.