Our first of all and any thoughts on that and then also
are you kind of immune to
all the nonsense? And I now I would hope so. You know,
I mean, it is what it is,
you know, for me, like
I didn't even hear about it.
We actually had within the building, someone lost a family
member. So like I was so immersed in that and just
talking to that person, that kind of stuff that
it really was, it was a moment to really put things in
perspective. Like
it really doesn't matter. You know what I mean?
At the other day, anything I say will just be blasted out
there. So I'm just going to completely remove myself and
just keep trying to play football. It's been nice just
answering football questions
and hopefully hopefully no more drama in the city. That's what
that's what I hope.
Okay. So
Let's do a little fill in the blank if we're able to blast
some truth, serum into the veins of Derek Carr. He'd say,
what about the Dana White? Brady to the Raider story
he would pull Logan, Roy and say bleep off.
I mean, isn't this point? It's tickets to me. It's a little
bit different than the whole to a tongue of my lowest situation
because it's not the same as it's been happening. Like in
the course of the last year. This is two years ago,
whoo. There's I'm here. I'm the one who's got. Josh McDaniels.
I'm the one who's got Davante Adams. I'm the one who's got
Darren Waller. I've got Hunter Renfro.
I don't care about any of this enough.
Yeah, and I can't think of anything better than that and
since it includes profanity, I'll take it. I,
I think that at some point you'd like, yeah. I mean,
my first thought is that he would say something along
the lines of what the f else do I have to do. Well, you winning
a playoff game, would be nice. I mean, that's the problem.
If you're not a top-five guy you're always going to be
at risk and I don't know how pragmatic he is about that.
I mean, look, he got a new contract. They can get out from
under it after one. If they choose to do. So and we know
how ruthless Josh McDaniels will be. I don't mean that in
a pejorative way, football coaches, good ones are
ruthless, they move on from anybody, whenever they feel
like it's in the best interest
of the team. That's the ultimate cover to be a complete
and total ass if you want to be. Well, sorry, it's in
the best interest of the team. Sorry, your family's got to
move. Sorry, you're not going to make the money. You thought.
Sorry about this. Sorry about that. It's in the best interest
of the team and they'll do it if they think it's in their
best interest, but
he's in that spot where he's good, not great. And if you're
good, not great in the NFL Well, especially as
a quarterback, you're always going to be at risk. All right?
Tom Brady, he's great and keeps getting better and better.
He likely will duck the media until his mandatory press
availability in advance of week one at Dallas. The first
question I would ask Tom, Brady, and his next media,
availability would be what
are you really on the mask singer?
And he can't answer it if he is. I'm sure. But like
what in the world is going on?
Why is this an internet theory? That is actually
Take it off. Why does there seem to be some sort of Merit
to it? This whole thing is so bizarre. And I guess, you know,
is they were talking yesterday reports that a I was like, hey,
you would never be able to tell that he took
11 days off and I guess that makes sense. When you're 45,
you'd been league for 20-plus years, you've won all these
Super Bowls. Yeah, you can come in and you really don't need to
be there in the middle of training camp, but this is so
weird.
Mike.
There are so many questions that you would want to ask him
at this point.
That
I wouldn't even be able to pick one. There's so many things I'd
be curious about and this is why press conferences aren't
a viable way to get to the bottom of anything because there's no
follow other just moves from one to the next
and and look.
I know that.
This is a very obscure office reference, but since it's
exclusively on peacock I'll go ahead and make it. There's
a Dunder Mifflin board meeting, and Oscar, you know, has all
these great ideas and he's ready to talk tough about how
the company screwed
up. And so Michael Scott brings him in and,
you know, he basically peas down his leg like it's one
thing to it's one thing to say everything you would do.
And then when you get there
and it's your turn, your question is, hi Tom, why are
you still so awesome? Even after missing 11 days for
personal reasons that no one has any business. Asking you
about. That's the question I'd end up asking when I was thrust
into that,
that's scrum, and that's the way it works. This isn't shade
against any specific reporter or any specific
group that covers a team
you can't. If you start asking tough questions all the time,
you get frozen out, you can't do your job. I don't expect him
to be asked a tough question at all.
When he finally meets with reporters and the other side of
it too, is it's pointless
because he has mastered the art of not saying anything, he'll
say something. But It won't be anything. It's the Nick Saban
skill, you go back and you read the transcript after the fact.
It's like
I thought he was saying something. He didn't say anything.
Yeah, well I mean I think it's one of those things, you know,
I guess to go even further inside baseball, like we are
beat writer, you kind of love it when columnists come to
practice or to whatever, because
the columnist can come in there and they can ask the questions
that you would love to be able to ask. But you've really got
to maintain that day-to-day relationship. And when you're
doing that day to day as a beat, right?
It's very different than when your columnist and you come in
and you've got one specific thing that you're writing about
and you can be a little more hammering toward the coach or
toward the player, or to whoever it happens to be. So
I hope we get some columnist there. Whenever Tom Brady
decides to, you know, do his media availability