with Tom Brady who was gone for 11 days during training camp.
He's back. Now, yesterday coach Todd Bowles meeting with
the media, asked the all-important question
of whether or not Tom Brady is all in,
he's been all in since we got them. He's all in now so
I don't follow the off the field stuff. I listened to
XM The Groove and soul town and
silk radios. So
My often feel activities are honestly, not even
football-related.
See in that comment, Todd Bowles made kind of a
kind of a
stunning acknowledgement that there are off the field issues
to pay attention to. He doesn't follow them but he's clearly
where something's going on. He's all in, he's been all in
since he got here. Well, he really hasn't been all in since
he got here because he
retired for 40 days. And during that time he was flirting with
joining the Dolphins, can't say he's been all During that
period, he wasn't all in when he was gone for 11 days during
training camp. How are you all in? If you're
not even present.
So,
the question continues to be relevant because we are in New
Territory with Tom Brady, we are past the E
on the gas gauge and we don't know how much longer the cars
going to run, we assume it's going to make it through
the full season,
but we assumed he would be there for all the training camp to.
So this isn't going to go away especially Ali when Brady is so
rarely going to talk to the media and when he does, he's
not going to say much Chris. We
know that and and I think that it makes sense and it is fair
to kind of take it on a week-by-week basis and be
bracing for the possibility that
You know, it's some point,
maybe he will be gone for a few days. Again, we just don't
know. Well, I think like the your phrase of unprecedented
territories, the one that like sticks out to me. I mean, yeah,
we're in that.
And then we're in a territory for the first time ever, where
we? Yeah, we question Tom. Brady and like what's going on
there a little bit off the field, it's a real thing.
I mean I don't think there's any doubt about it and yeah there's
there's an off the field family issue,
it's all page six in the
Are posed and other Publications started to report
it this weekend to where I don't care who you are 45 year
old
you know, balancing family doing all that.
And if it is the supposed marital issues that are reboot
being reported out there and all that there, that's not
easy, it's a lot and to me stressful and, you know, then
there was the talks of
Brady lost do you know, 10 15 pounds because of the stress of
the sum of all of this. So
and and yeah, there's the rumors of Of. Yeah, he's not he
wasn't all in. He was all in trying to go somewhere else. He
was all in. So it's the first time ever, we are like
questioning that aspect of Brady and I think that's where
it's a little different.
And then that yeah, it's a 45.
Okay. He's still throwing the ball. Great, we got that. But
man, I just seems like other things in life have
infiltrated, the Tom Brady robot that were not used to and
I think that's where it's a little weird for all of us
and now added to everything else that we
Get or don't get from him during press conferences either
during the week or after the game the let's go podcast is
back for a second season. Jim Gray and Tom Brady
last night talking through a variety of things. And this is
where it becomes very interesting from my perspective
Sirius XM which hosts the podcast will send out a partial
transcript the things Brady says,
but then you have to listen to it because there may be some
other stuff. He said that didn't make it to
the transcript that may I Actually be more interesting
than what's in the transcript because maybe in
the transcript, they decided let's not reduce that to writing. So
there is a disconnect between what was sent out last night
and what I heard when I listen to it, and he's very
vague, but he talks about Ebbs and flows of life. And,
you know, he waxes philosophically for a little
bit. He doesn't come all that close to
this, but this is what happens when you have hand-picked ho.
No criticism of Jim Gray. They've been friends for a long
time.
You're not going to get. He wouldn't do it.
That's the reality.
If he was stepping into a situation Chris
where he was going to get grilled,
where were you for those 11 days? He will just wouldn't do it.
The only reason we have access to him through the let's go
podcast, is it's a safe space where he knows that
the questions are going to be hand-picked tailor-made and
never put him in a position where he's uncomfortable
or saying something, he doesn't want to say. So we have to take
what he does say and try to make sense of it. Which I've
spent way too much time doing between last night and this
morning. Apparently. Apparently it sounds like it, but
but it is,
you know, again, we should be dissecting it, there's no
doubt, but yeah, I don't know.
Oh good, that's where Brady,
that's where Brady falls on deaf, ears, to me.
That's where I just, oh, Brady had a press conference about
but I'd rather watch paint dry. Oh, Brady had an interview with
Bubba but I'd rather watch paint dry. I mean, so what
it does is if he did get asked to answer those hard questions,
he'd give us some BS answer. Anyways, and
45 and I got a lot of s*** going on. Oh, okay,
great. All right, so, that's where
that's where he is. Not the coolest,
you know, X all time Corner Rack in my opinion. And that's
where, yeah, I will never be tuning in to him and Jim Gray
on the podcast and, and listening to that
other than Snippets. We might play on here every now. And then,
it's a weird sort of treasure hunt though. Because
You may trip over something that is
useful, right? Obviously obviously
it's not live. It's pre-tape. Yeah. So
if he would ever accidentally tell the truth about something
that doesn't make him look good. You know that they're
going to let's go back and edit that his racket they're not
going to play it. So my challenge to you Tom
do it live I'll do it live. Do it live? Good luck and
and maybe maybe maybe consider
Taking a real question to, if you really want to build
an audience and it isn't just talking for two minutes and
then reading the next commercial, which is kind of
what it is now, but does it is other?
It is let me tell you something, let me tell you how
it is exhausting, you get 34 minutes of content. Then you
got Jim Gray, reading, a commercial and then 34 minutes
of content and Jim Gray reading a commercial. Yeah, and that's
fine. I'm not opposed anybody getting paid. But come on Tom.
How much revenue do you need to generate from this thing?
I think you're doing, okay? I don't think we need Need
to consider a bake sale
for Tom Brady, anytime soon,
he did say something interesting though.
Last night, Chris, that is very revealing, it
it meshes with the Brady brand
here he is from the podcast,
talking about the injuries that his offensive line has
suffered. He had some other stuff that I'll add afterward.
Let's start with him, talking about the injuries along
the offensive line
and then we'll talk about how he had his own little Brady
twist to it.
It's going to be a challenge, it's definitely say that's and
every team's challenge at different times in the year. So
you deal with injuries
early, you deal with injuries late, you deal with them all
year and, you know, yeah, we lost.
You know, we lost Alex Kappa to The Bangles. We lost Alomar
pet. He's a great player to retirement. And then Ryan got
hurt in training camp. So we got Shaq Mason who I love
him to death, played with him a long time. I know what he's all
about
haensi, Robert Haynes, he from Notre Dame, Earn the respect of
his his teammates,
you know, with his work ethic and him showing up every day
last year, even though I wasn't playing to be prepared, he's
going to step in and try to do a great job and we got,
you know, left a left guard.
You know, that's that's battling every day. Luke is
done a great job for us
in training camp. We drafted him to come in here and play.
And, you know, we'll see if he can get in there and be
prepared to go do a great job.
Okay? And that's fine. That's fine. That's that's what he has
to say.
But Chris, he also pivoted
to the idea
and this crack me up.
He
He said that people are saying bad things about these
offensive linemen and he's making sure that they're aware
of it. I showed it to them and use it as motivation every time
someone says they suck and they can't do anything. I've tried
to show it to them and say
this is what they're all saying about you. What do you guys
think? What are you going to do about it? Make sure. They know
what everyone's saying and that's important.
I've always used a little different Speights as
motivation for me. I'm a really motivated person. It always
helps when someone says something that's not
flattering.
What is anyone saying about these? Offensive lineman that
they
know what? Saying they suck.
They're just saying, hey
their backups for a reason
and now they're pressed into service. Can they get it done?
That's not saying they suck. That's raising a question. That
is an obvious question.
Yeah, what are we going to do now? Ryan Jensen's out, Ali
more pets gone. Alex cap has gone are instead. He's out for
the year,
we're relying upon a rookie and a second-year guy to play
center and left guard. And we know that that's an area of
vulnerability for Tom Brady in the past. He gets rid of
the ball so quickly, now it doesn't matter
but nobody said I have seen nothing that suggests these
guys suck. I wonder if he's out there making it up himself.
I wonder if he's got some
burner account where he's tweeting these guys suck
and any friends and off and shows it to him.
Who's saying these guys suck? I defied Tom, Brady
to produce a shred of evidence
that has
bolstered. The idea that anyone is saying these young offensive
lineman suck. All were saying is we don't know if they're
going to be any good. That's a
Difference in saying they suck. No. Yeah, not me. Not even you
just questioning it in general because it was it, you know,
its strength of their football team and questioning it. And
because of,
you know, Tom Brady and where what kind of player he is in
the AG's at to where we know, I mean, it's, it's foolproof.
I mean any amount of pressure
is an issue with Tom Brady. He's not going to be able to
move or do anything. So yeah, we question that definitely
and, you know, again
even within his own words there, they weren't
like glowing assessment. So, Robert Haynes. He did a
good job showing up for work last year and,
you know, he didn't play, but he was prepared.
And then the other guy, he just talks about, you know, that was
last night. We got a rookie. We got a rookie, we got a rookie
and yeah, we drafted into play,
right? So, I mean, again, there's got to be questions
there, 100%. But we've seen Brady do this before. He is
a guy to like what you just quoted him as he looks for
anything, he can to motivate him, he looks.
Or something - that way.
I stole. I'll never forget
the most of all was that after the Chargers game, right? I'm
gonna go to Kansas City. That was the most like we were all
like well here comes New England. Again they're going to
go to the Super Bowl games like
everybody's probably doubting us and everybody thinks we're
going to lose
and we all believe you're gonna win somehow. That's what it
was, the opposite. So that's just the way he is. It's
the way he's wired and he tries to get his guys like that, too.
I remembered I was
I'm sitting on my couch, had just gotten home because we had
a game the night before divisional round. Yeah I think
it was I think it was after the trip back from Kansas City
where he had skills that he cold and right lock last game
and although we didn't know it at the time
and I'm watching that game and afterward is Tracy Wolfson,
talking to Tom Brady and he says nobody believed in us
against the Chargers at home. Are you kidding me? Nobody
believed in you, are you high?
But, but that is,
that is what he does, he will take.
And it's
It's kind of refreshing to me
because it makes me believe that there really is a real
live boy, deep down in
side. All of the facade and the robot. The Stepford Patriot for
all those years, and the guy. Now who seems to be animatronic
that he does get motivation
from actual or perceived or just made up slights that he's
like the rest of us
that he needs to be pissed off
too. Achieve.
And I like that. I like that even though I think it's
a bunch of crap, I like it. Yeah, I do too
well. I think there's a lot more athletes that
that that operate that way than not and that's in through
even Josh. Alvin when I talked to him,
he kind of gets motivated through self-deprecation a little bit
and that negativity,
whether that's talking badly about himself or complaining
about something and that gets Him
going. And I think that's with Brady as well.
You know what, it's I think it was a lot of
quarterbacks, I could be like that. I grew up with one, that
could be like that as my father to wear. Yeah, if you find that
thing to go, this pisses me off. This gets me mad
and it gets the blood boiling. It makes you go out and work
a little harder, have a little bit, maybe more attention to
detail. And
yeah, Brady certainly. I think has a lot of that in him for
sure
when you have more money than you could ever spend, 50
lifetimes. You've got seven, Super Bowl. Championships. Your
motivations. Got to come from somewhere, and it's this
constant obsession with proving
people wrong. He should be at a point where he no longer gives
one s*** about what anyone says, that's what makes it even
more. Amazing. To me, you want to say, I stink, you want to
say, don't believe me, I don't care. I Got It Made,
I don't care what you say. No, you're right at some point will
become impervious to that. I think. Yes, it yet, though.
I know it is, I, you know? Yeah, you would think at some
point you would be like, hey, wait I'm doing this for I'm me,
I'm the man and screw off and I don't give a damn about any of
you but he does. He clearly does care what people think.
Still.
Hey, there's, there's no question about that.
And he's very measured. And,
you know, he's a guy that and I know we talked about another ex
New England Patriots quarterback, who doesn't like
the ruffle feathers. I don't think he likes to ruffle
feathers out way he does it. I think he's always kind of shown
that throughout his career,
but it doesn't mean he doesn't have an edge to motivate
himself and and bring him, you know, bring his best game to
the the football. Filled with that edge and find him.
Something to piss him off to make them compete harder.
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