had nothing to say about the situation. Tom Brady has
ducked, the media ever since his came out. He's done one
training camp, press conference.
Now, I don't know this for sure, but I've heard some
chatter that we're not going to hear from him again until week,
one of the regular season when he's required to do a midseason
press conference.
And then post game,
every player has to be
available. High-profile players
have to be available in a press conference setting.
All other players have to be available openly
The room once a week. And then after the game, everybody
is fair game and some players will do a press conference
after the game. He's not doing anything. And
I've heard that like NFL Network, they're doing that
training camp. They're everywhere. He said no, no, no,
no,
I heard serious. Yesterday was trying to get him,
don't know whether or not it was successful, he's got that.
Let's go podcast. That's a Serious XM production.
I think he is trying to avoid being in any position where
he's asked a single question about This
hopeful that when he's finally
available, it's going to be about getting ready for the Cowboys
and that's all he's going to be asked about and he's not going
to or if he does get a question about it, he's going to be able
to say well I'm really focused on the Cowboys right now, if
you successfully avoid
having to talk to anybody and answer questions about
the stuff when it was relevant and you wait long enough, you can
say well I'm just focused on the Cowboys right? Yeah that's
it. And I bet that's what he'll say. I agree. He's just you
know that was last year I'm really not focused on. He's
gonna
The Bill Belichick hits basically.
That's what he's going to do. It will revert to his
New England, robot ways. And
again I'm not going to be mad at him for it,
you know. I'm not know that that
that's the, you know, one thing I don't always love about him.
Is that he doesn't, you know, is in fourth right? All
the time. With that type of stuff, but
I'm not going to be mad. I understand, he doesn't want to
make it any more of a story. He doesn't want to focus. I know
that we all know that he wants to focus on football and he
wants to bucks to be the best. And at that means, he's got to
look a little weird by a Dodging the media. He'll do
that. And you know, I'm not going to
hate on them for that.
Well, it would be nice, though. It would be nice. I know point
and hopefully hopefully when he does have a press conference
look I know it's difficult for the folks who cover
the Buccaneers because if you start antagonizing the Buccaneers
they will retaliate. Plenty of
teams will do that.
They'll you'll have limited access you try to get. Hey can
I get five minutes with Coach? Sorry he's not available.
I mean
if you piss them off they will find ways to get back at you.
I'm not saying, Buccaneer, specifically, it's a broader
Dynamic and if you cover the team for a living, if you push
far enough, all of a sudden, you're of no use to your
publication.
If you can get no one
on the phone. If you can get interviews with no one on
the team, if they're all treating. You like a pariah, you may as
well tap out of the beat because you can't do the job.
So those are the people who are going to be asking him
questions and next time he's available. So by definition,
they're in a
tough spot and rarely do you have someone who's going to
stand? And up and send and push back in that setting. It's
difficult, it's awkward. It's inherently
delicate and it's not a normal human interaction. We got
a room full of people asking one question after another but
I hope someone will stand up and ask him some tough questions.
How can you give the fans any assurances
that you really wanted to be here this year? And I don't
even know if that's a good question. I don't know. I'd
want to sit down and think about it but I want to hear Tom
Brady
have to talk about why
he did what he did. I wanted to just acknowledge that he did it.
I think I think
If you know he did it he we know he did it the league found
that the Dolphins did it as to him. That means he did it as to
them. Meaning he did want out of Tampa Bay that his
retirement, wasn't a real retirement,
it was an effort to quit the Buccaneers. That's what I'd
like for him to admit. But then again, do we really need him to
admit it because anybody who's been paying attention knows it.
Yeah, no, I you're right.
That's it would be cool. It would be cool. You know, if he
did admit it and went that way, again, it's another one like 20
where I just
feel like. If you took it head on and was like, hey Oh,
yeah. Well, I had an opportunity,
you know, my family we were thinking about moving. We're
going to move to Miami. We want to live there and I think if
you kind of stated that way
again, I don't think people would really
question it all that much or wouldn't the criticism wouldn't
be all that harsh in my opinion because we're not going to,
we're never doubting. Tom Brady isn't all in once he makes up
his mind and figure that out. Yeah, okay. Yeah. He flirted
with the dolphins and had something going there. There
was a lot of reasons for that, you know?
Worship family moving, they're
all those type of things that connected and life and sport
that he wanted to make work. And again I'm not going to be
mad at him for that and I don't think most people would be
because as soon as he signed back with the Bucks, the one
thing I know this
as he's all in with the Bucks. Again, that's you don't have to
question that with this man, so that's where I don't want.
Super Bowl number eight, he wants exactly. That's where
I don't think it would be a story and I'll
sometimes. And sometimes I do think, guys,
you know, avoiding these type of conversations make it
a little bit bigger. Of a story than maybe it should be.
Sometimes it's just good to hear Jack Nicholson admit that
he ordered the code red. Sometimes you just want, I'm
serious. I know sometimes you just want the guy to say,
okay, here's what happened.
I'd had enough for Bruce, Arians because he is not Bill
Belichick. And I wanted to play with a coach who was more like
Bill Belichick, and offensive Mastermind, who's teams were 4
and 0 against us
in the regular season
and one of those games happened.
He was out with covid. That's how good of a coach he is. So
I wanted to partner up with him because Bruce Arians is kind of
semi-retired and he just swoops in and tries to change aspects
of the game playing late in the week and it's
I've just it got old.
I don't want that anymore. I'm too old to have to worry about
that so yeah. Hey, we got plans to build a house in Miami. It's
not that far from our place in Costa Rica and and so I
wanted to go play for the Dolphins. So, so what's wrong
with that? I originally signed a two-year contract and A
one-year extension for cap purposes. If I want out, they
should let me go. And
when it all blew up because Brian Flores filed his lawsuit,
and I had no other choice and the 49ers didn't want me to try
to go out there and flirt with them again and they weren't
interested. I decided I'll come back to the Buccaneers as long
as Bruce, Arians in the coach, I'd like, to just see him admit
that.
Yeah. Because we kind of know that's how it went. I know,
I know I, you know, I think it's one of the,
if there's any negatives about Brady, that that's one of them.
That's, you know, that way a little bit, he's just not as
you It may be as honest as an Aaron, Rodgers is an honor sir,
Aaron. Rodgers was an honest one time. And we were
disappointed and the immunize thing because he know Aaron
Rodgers is
usually the guy that
he takes those things head-on and he challenges you and
I think he was the right guy to kind of do that at that time.
That's where I was disappointed in him a little bit but
yeah, Brady's not that way. He kind of plays the political
angle may be a little bit more but again other do you know,
there's nothing wrong with that. It's just not, you know,
the favorite. Our favorite way to handle things. At least you
and I
But at least he didn't lie to us about when he got his next
contract. At least he didn't lie about that, stop it.