Dana White claimed
that he had a deal brokered and it was almost a done deal. As
Dana White said, on the first-ever UFC Gronk, cast to
bring Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski to Las Vegas in
2020.
Mark, Davis was asked about it on Sunday, the owner,
the Raiders said that was what, two to three years ago or
something. I don't know, man, talk to Dana.
I remember that Tom, Brady went to Tampa Bay, that's basically
what I remember. I have no idea. Dana has the stories,
I love Dana. He's a Great promoter. Why would this make
me upset?
That's what Davis said, Sunday. And we wrote about it
yesterday. And somebody who saw, who knows what happened?
Got upset. The Davis is acting. Like he doesn't know. We posted
this earlier this morning on PFT. I'm told Davis knew
exactly what was going on.
That white was brokering, the deal
on Davis's behalf Davis wanted it
it was happening.
How could the guy who would have been paying Brady? Yes,
not know, right? That this was going on. Right. It's not. It's
like a let's is all hypothetical fault. We have to
go talk to mr. Davis about it. We haven't told him anything
about it yet.
So Tom you want it. You're ready to buy that house. We
ready to do this, John Green. You okay with it, everybody?
Okay, everybody signing off. Exactly right, mr. Davis,
that's not how it happens.
Davis new but Davis couldn't say anything.
Look, they, they all got smacked down verbally by
the commissioner, a couple of weeks ago for tampering
Stephen Ross. Literally got smacked down and suspended
for tampering with Brady. The last thing Davis is going to do
is admit Oh, by the way, he's also got the same quarterback
playing for him. They would have thrown overboard in 2020,
so there's no reason for Davis to admit it. I just think it
rubs some folks, the wrong way that he played dumb about it
instead of just saying, no comment. Yeah, I guess I should
have just said no comment, right this idea that oh I don't
know. Well
here let's refresh your memory.
You knew you were involved and Dana White was the one working
on behalf of Mark Davis to do the day? I mean, of course,
right. I mean,
you know, you know, it'd be silly to think that The keep
wouldn't know to your point. Exactly is the owner of
the team is the guy that's going to be paying the checks.
All of that let alone
you know it's there was vested interest there. I think for
Dana White 21 he's he's friends with Brady it sounds like he's
a Boston area guy and then
the majority of his business happens in Vegas
so he'd love for that to be
you know Grandeur there and everything about that add to
the spotlight of Vegas and Men every time I have a UFC fight
I'll be able to bring Brady and Gronk and they'll be sitting
front row and all of that. So
Made sense for everybody but yeah
you're right we didn't talk about this yesterday and
obviously there was something there but
there's a lot of
a lot of tampering going on with Brady for sure
the last few years. We know that
and the Patriots did not care the Patriots, not going to do
anything to cause an ugly final separation. They knew he was
ready to move on.
They didn't huff and puff they didn't suggest that anyone was
doing anything wrong. So that caused More teams. I think to
be willing to get involved in the process before they were
supposed to
the league, doesn't care
about that. It's still tampering in the League's eyes and
what happens is just randomly once every five or six years,
the leak wax someone for tampering but the Patriots
didn't care.
So the 49ers, the Raiders, the Dolphins, the bucks at
a minimum. We're chasing Tom Brady, at least talking to him,
the 49ers, talk to him and decided they didn't want him.
The Raiders ultimately,
I didn't want to because Jon Gruden didn't want to do it
and that was that, but tampering was rampant. But
there's multiple reasons for Davis
to not act like he knew, but this whole idea of I forget, go
talk to Dana, you know, he tried though, look, he's
the guy that lined up Jon Gruden
to come coach the team while. Jack Del Rio was still the head
coach. Yeah, so he knows a thing or two about lining up
deals before they become official. Yeah, you're right.
Exactly. Right. It's goes on to your point, you say it all
the time. This
is something that goes on. In the NFL,
there's too many back-channel
ways to communicate everything there.
And yeah, as you know, as you said, you take yourself back in
time,
New England was not going to cause any issues here.
Brady wanted out, New England, kind of wanted out. It was, it
was over and he had earned the right to kind of figure out
where he wanted to go and the Kraft family. Bill Belichick,
they weren't going to make a stir about that.
What's amazing is, it's only been three weeks since
the Stephen Ross punishment was announced by the NFL out of
the blue and I asked someone
at the time it happened, do you really think this is going to
stop teams from tampering it and no it's not. There. Just be
more careful. The Dolphins were Reckless about it Bruce BL as
I heard it was
telling all of his buddies in New York that he's getting his,
his good buddy. Tom, Brady to Miami.
No one was being discreet about it because
they don't they never do anything.
The last time they had been at a and Punishment was like six
years before that when the Chiefs talk directly to Jeremy
Maclin at a time when they were only supposed to be talking to,
His agent and the NFL made an example out of Andy reading.
The Chiefs just to
kind of scare everybody else into quit being so rampant
about tampering so was set your clock just like I texted myself
from five years ago,
text yourself five years from now. That's the next time
they'll be another tampering punishment in the NFL.