and you know,
there's this and I get I get it. I understand what we do
for a living, the reporting side of this is people want to
know things. So the reporters started, elbowing each other
out of the way to try to add anything, they can, even if
they're not really adding anything
to the process. Breathless reporting from yesterday,
Tom Brady will be back.
Early this week. Yeah, we know, we've known it all along.
Here's Todd Bowles, Buccaneers coach yesterday. Basically
saying, why are you even asking me this? I've been telling you
since the moment he left when he's coming back, have
a listen.
I like I said A week and a half ago, I said it, we back this
week so my, you know, that hadn't changed. We expect them
back this week
Sasha. Do, you know, do you know yet, which day it's going
to be,
it'll be this week early? Do you have any indication if he
will play in this third preseason game or not? Not yet,
we'll see how practice goes and we'll make those decisions at
the end of the week.
That to me, was the real news, the idea that maybe Tom Brady,
after being gone for a week and a half, not playing yet. In
the preseason, we could see him for the pre season finale on
Saturday night at Annapolis. That becomes must-see
TV. Put that one on every Network. Let's see. Tom Brady,
if he ends up playing I would bet the under at this point but
you can't rule out anything. We are in
unprecedented territory with everything related to, Tom
Brady. Yeah. So if anyone can show up
After being gone for 11 days
and get it together in a few days
and play on Saturday night
and look as good as ever. It's Tom Brady. Yeah. So I can't
rule out. Anything bowls isn't ruling out anything. We just
sit back and see how the week goes. Yeah that's right. I mean
yeah I'm not I wouldn't be worried about that you know
again
that's going to be a Tom Brady decision with balls, a little
bit, but I'm not like oh man. Well, they might throw Brady
out there and might not look too good on Saturday. He might
not look, I mean, I just, you know, again, even though I know
he's taking some time off. And there's all these rumors.
Rumors swirling and everybody wants to know where the hell he
is. I have a hard time thinking, you know, again that
he's totally checked out and it's not like the time of year
Mike is, you know,
that they're implementing anything really new in
the offense at least for him. So you know, that that will be
there and I bet you he's still getting TB 12 workouts and
throwing the football a little bit.
I would have a hard time thinking. He just totally
dropped everything for 11 days. The only thing I would question
is,
is the offense of line going to be in the right spot for him.
Play on Saturday night. I mean, again, they had another injury
this week, so it's a little bit like, all right, you know. Hey,
here's a guy that usually has played in the preseason
a little bit. You look at his, you know, career, the last 5-10
years in New England.
Even last year, I think he got in on one Series.
So I think that's kind of status quo what times but,
you know, is this support around him. Do they feel like
they can protect him with a, you know, a defense and
a defensive line and Indianapolis. I think's
a little bit on a mission this year.
And I never know how I would feel if I were a Tom Brady.
I guess it's a good problem to have having to go back and play
in a stadium where you lost a Super Bowl although they did
beat the Colts last year. Late November 3831
at Lucas Oil Stadium.
I don't know whether that would be a bonus or a punishment to
have to go back there and play in the preseason. But either
way, he'll be back
early this week, I've seen some suggestions. It'll be back
today. I mean, sometimes you just got to give it a rest and
let it play out. Yeah. But here's the problem. I've been
saying this since the day it has. You have
When
the Buccaneers bungle this from a PR standpoint. When Tom
Brady, says nothing
with his millions of followers on social media
and he says nothing
about the situation
when no one knows anything.
We fill in
the gaps with whatever we can and that's the only way to
psychologically account for what happened on Friday. When
all of a sudden this weird bizarre theory that Tom Brady
is absent because he's The Masked Singer
on Fox which is a
singing competition that's open ended
and that's why they don't know when he's coming back because
we don't know when the mask singer taping will end that
actually caught fire. It did I saw that? For a caught fire.
Yeah,
I didn't. I didn't want to write anything about it because
it's like, there's no freaking way that Tom. Brady is ditching
training camp to do something. He could do next year, or
whenever he's done playing.
I mean, whatever his deal is with Fox, it doesn't start
until he stops playing, right, there's no way in hell Fox is
going to squeeze him to leave camp for 11 days
to go on some Masked Singer boondoggle that he'd never live
that down. If that was the reason why he was gone. And
there's no way that it would
It did, it would avoid getting out because here he is on The
Masked Singer, right? We would put it all together after
the fact, but, but it shows Chris
what happens
when they chuny. Go Dario
from Brady's perspective, go dark and from the Buccaneers
perspective, go nuts with conflicting, weird strange.
What's going on? They're just creating the impression, they
don't know what's going on, so
that that's what happens. That's where you get, crazy ass
theories. Yeah. Because nobody's telling anyone
anything so the And starts to wander. Yeah, that's right. I'm
sure we got NBC executive shaking in their boots, go
knows it going to be playing
Week 1 and our Sunday night game. The first real Sunday
night game of the year against down weeks before. Yeah, we're
we're all right gone. Oh no, we didn't schedule this. Right.
So I'm sure there's a lot of people thinking a lot of
different things
I would. I mean if he would on the max Mass think singer,
I mean, yeah. And you could just you could just say right here.
We're going to roast them for sure. I mean that'd be just
totally
Really crazy but I can't imagine that. That is the case
here and again as I've said from the start, you know,
the one source I have down there that I really trust is has led
me to believe it's something
personal and they're not comfortable, sharing it with me.
And this is a person that has shared things with me before. So
it's where I just
I'm going to leave it at that. I don't really know what it is
but yeah you're right. We're going to inquire want to know
it especially with Tom Brady like you said it was just been
so in our face with, you know, in The G and Tick-Tock and
whatever else here over the last few years.
And then he's the most famous American sports figure right
now. One of the most famous in the whole world. So yeah, we're
going to, we're going to wonder what it is, it is weird, but
I think at the end of the day, I'm not really all that worried
about it. If he's back in the building here in the next few
days. Practicing. And like you said, 17 days before the week,
one game
or more than that, right? He's got 20, 20 days. He's got 20 at
ready. He'll be ready to go. I don't doubt that at all.
Once you submit yourself to a full Embrace of Fame and
everything that goes along with it, you don't get to pick and
choose any more, that's just the reality.