I'm going to go home, get a good night's sleep as good as
I can tonight.
And
this has been a lot of focus on you know, this game. So
yeah,
it's just be one day at a time. Truly, I just want to say thank
you guys for everything this year. I really appreciate all
your effort and I know it's hard for you guys to is hard
for us to players to make it through and
you guys got a tough job and I appreciate all that you guys
do to cover us and everyone who Watches and a big fan of
the sport. We're very grateful for everyone's support and,
you know, hopefully,
you know, I love this organization. It's a great
place to be and thank you everybody for welcome to me,
all you regulars,
and
just very grateful for the respect. And I hope I gave
the same thing back to you guys. So thank you very much. Appreciate
it.
I guess that's the press conference of
equivalent of the Irish, goodbye. Well, just leave
without saying anything on. He right? He pivoted. He That dumb
statement. Yeah, during the question and answers. He pivots
to that statement and just leaves
and pure. Like, what the hell was that? There wasn't even
a question that he answered. He just had his comments. He made
them and he left and I thank you all for welcoming me.
Well, he was welcomed two years ago. He's got three seasons in
Tampa. It felt final and Chris based upon what you said. Last
segment, the fact that the cupboard around him is Bear,
right? But the shelf life has expired on the stuff that is
inside. Add the cabinet, right? Tampa is not the place for Tom,
Brady to play in 2023. If that's where he's going to be
because the deck is not
stacked for him there
and look, it may not be stacked form anywhere else but there's
no reason to stay in Tampa. The only reason he went there in
the first place was because he thought he would win one or
more championships.
If you don't think you're going to win a championship,
there's someplace else I think he'd rather be?
Yeah, I would agree with that and just, you know, again,
I don't think it was any coincidence that, you know,
there was a Sean Payton, Tom Brady to Miami thing last year
I think they're you saw the writing on the wall with
the football team to a degree.
Got stuck in a position where there wasn't any other options.
He came back to the football team. They tried to make it
work and of course they, you know, hit a myriad of issues
throughout the year but you know. Yeah. You like that word
like that. Like that, I'm big
time here today. Look at that Tuesday. So super Wild Card
Sims here. Okay but
but but either way,
yeah, yeah, I mean you said it we've been talking about this.
He needs a certain type of A support system at this point in
his career. And he does need to feel protected and have
a top-notch offensive line around him
and a running game
to help out a little bit. That's when they were at
the best their best. When they won the Super Bowl, they were, you
know, bludgeoning people with the power running game. Oh
wait, play-action pass, let's block it up. Boom, I'll throw
a bomb or a laser down the field and
all the sudden were in the Super Bowl. Beating the crap
out of the Kansas City Chiefs and win it. So he needs
something like That. But in my heart of hearts, I don't think
that's coming. I don't and my heart of hearts. I really think
that'll be the last time we saw Tom, Brady
play on a football field. I think that was it. It was
a great run. We'll see. I'm sure, he'll think about it and maybe
talk to a few teams but
I don't know what just people. I know he's always said, 45.
I just feel like that would that was it last night and
we're not going to see him again. The trigger for me, this
year, came the day, after they lost to the Browns, they blew
the lately, then lost in overtime and
he said on his podcast, Jim Gray, I'd rather play and lose
the not play at all. And some of what he said last night
before he made his exit stage, what would that be stage right?
From his perspective, stage left from ours? So whichever
one is
proper is the right one. You can't go wrong with left or
right. But before that, he was talking about how 30 Two teams
18 or at home. Seven of the remaining. Eight are going to
be pissed off. When it's all said and done that's just the
way it is. Accepting the reality that you can't have it
your way. Every year, you can't win the Super Bowl every year,
he got his brain rewired in New England, thinking we can win
the Super Bowl every year, right? And when the Super Bowl
every year, and
he's kind of now in this phase of his career, where it's like,
well, you know what, winning the Super Bowl is in
everything.
Playing is everything, the journey is everything learning
you learn something. From yourself, every time you lose,
he said that after
one of the various losses by the Buccaneers this year. So Chris
we're going to talk about Sean Payton's dance card
in a bit, but of the teams that have been linked to him,
Cardinals, Broncos Texans, and now the Panthers
two of those teams.
Could push the door. Open for Tom Brady Texans and Panthers.
And wouldn't it be something if Tom Brady ended up in
the division? One of the weakest divisions in football,
with the Panthers,
going against the Buccaneers
Sean Payton going against the Saints, boy. All of a sudden,
the NFC South gets very interesting in 2023, but if
those two are determined to find their way together, if
they're determined to give a middle finger to 345 Park
Avenue and
I would suspect based upon their own individual histories
of being suspended by the commissioner Peyton a day.
Decade ago for trumped-up Bounty. Gate charges. Brady,
six years ago, for trumped-up. Deflategate charges. What they
love
after the Dolphins. Got whacked for trying to get Peyton and
Brady last year. Wouldn't they love to find a way to come
together and give a giant middle finger
to 345 Park Avenue?
I'm telling you,
I wouldn't write that off.
I would not write that off because both of them have just enough
impishness that when you get him together,
The personalities May intertwined in a way, where
they see. Let's go do this thing. Let's go, let's go.
Let's go shove it where the sun don't shine. Well they got that
too. Yeah, suspended Us in the past. Well yeah, I mean,
they're there, they got
Edge and you know, they're chippy both of them and you're
right about that marriage and they'd love to shove it up
anywhere. You know the shun don't shine on a lot of people
for sure
you know but you know there's there's there's two things.
Okay that I think you know, I think about two maybe counter
that argument one
you know are any of those teams that you just mentioned really
ready to like support Brady and go. Okay. Right. I mean Tampa
line
well maybe I know getting close, they're getting close
something that you know
I don't know if I'm ready to say that yet quite yet to go
there
but they're close and maybe they can find the finishing
pieces in this offseason. They do got some young talent and we
know that offensive line has
It all got better and running the football pass protection.
Okay. Can they protect ready? The way he needs to? But here's
the other,
you know, to little wrinkles that you throw into this one,
okay? You get Tom. Brady. What? So but then the next year
you're also looking for another quarterback. That's gots.
That's not gonna be an appealing process to some of
these teams you were in the
wait we're trying to find a quarterback now you could play
it way, we're going to draft a guy and then have Brady be
there for a year and he can learn under Ready
that might work. If Brady wants to do that and then the other
factor I think that you got to play into this, you named
the team's. But I mean
the elephant in the room of course is the Raiders and that
conversation and you brought it up a few weeks ago and there's
no Derek Carr and there's Josh McDaniels and they do have
the right Weaponry
at receiver that I think oh Darren Waller Davante. Adams
Hunter, Renfro that damn that seems New England dish in my
Prime and they, and they're all line, you know, they're going
to put some money in some
assets into that this year.
Maybe that's a team
but but gosh, I don't know, I just don't see it.
I don't II feel like he's a guy that still can throw
the football but I don't know if he can hang in there in
the pocket. As you want to go through another challenge of
moving dealing with
you know. So you know so setting the groundwork for
a new football team
there's just a part of me that doesn't see that happening.
I don't know. Well here's the problem with the Raiders. Yeah
the problem with the Raiders is the guy that we're going to see
in person on Saturday
Patrick Mahomes and And,
and the guy we saw last Saturday night Harbor, right?
Right, right. So
that's the problem.
You're not going to be in a position
to feel confident that you can win the division. You have
laying in the same division where a sub 500 team, just won
the division and are you and
you know that one of the factors
proximity to his kids,
Las Vegas San Francisco. I mean, you know, the 49ers
reportedly are going to take a look this time around. He may
not want it this time around, he may not want to be on
the Side of the country
from his kids given. Everything that's happened in his personal
life Carolina to me, makes a ton of sense, all of a sudden
assuming that the Panthers in the Saints, could work
something out here and,
hey, look, the Saints are going to lose, Sean, Payton. Anyway,
they're going to get something in return for him anyway. And
if he's determined to go to Carolina, he's goin to
Carolina. But David Tepper has been desperate for a great head
coach and a franchise quarterback and you made a good
point. Yeah. What are you going to do? The year after Tom
Brady's done? Well, Miami was willing to cross that bridge.
I just think Peyton and Brady
are so determined to find a way to work together that
that it wouldn't stop them from doing it. And Peyton would say
to Tepper what worry about next year, when next year comes,
I went to New Orleans and I didn't know who my quarterback
was going to be, I want to Tony Romo, and they wouldn't let me
have him.
I got Drew Brees after the
Dolphins said, no, thanks. We don't want a guy with 20 plus
studs in his shoulder and we made it work. We'll make it
work. It's kind of what he said last week. When the issue of
the Broncos came up,
it wasn't about well, I gotta Bad quarterback position. It
was when I went to New Orleans, I had no quarterback situation.
We made it work, we'll make it work.
Either way, we'll make it work. So
I'm fascinated by the possibility
of Brady
Carolina
with Sean Payton because I just think there are so many reasons
why
if they were determined to do it last year.
They'd be determined do it again
this year and I think I think he is going to play. I really
do when Rodney Harrison said at that night Christmas night
after
Ewing Tom Brady, Talking Tom Brady
Rodney. Harrison
goes on our air and says,
I think Tom Brady's going to play next year but not for
the buccaneers
mean,
I mean, come on, he's former teammate and he's got to know
something. He either said something to him or Rodney
picked it up but
I I just think we're going to see him for one more year, he's
going to want to go even beyond the limits, he set for himself.
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