I want Platinum standard. I want goat.
I want goat making goat noises in the booth. Well, you're
getting goat and you're getting goat. Who's going to be able to
shed knowledge and things and little Trixie.
Yeah. I know. But I do think he's going to be able to give
you details and shed, you know, information and
little nuances that oh, yeah, a lot won't be able to. I do
think he'll be able to converse it and talk at the right way.
Hey,
the go Going out on a limb and or saying something
controversial. Yeah, I'm sure that's going to be a struggle
at first. It's a struggle for all X players
finding that like little spot of we get away with it, though.
He can. And he should be no way that he's gonna call
who's gonna call Tom Brady and
and complain who's going to call Tom? Brady and complain.
Yeah, cuz it's not like any of them can say
You know, II was, I'm better than you were
who's really going to have grounds to complain if Tom,
Brady calls him out that so he's in an interesting and
unique position here, Chris. No, no, but, you know, I don't
know. But, you know, again, it's that can go down. Anyways,
I'm sure Troy Aikman said of,
take a few calls from guys, that doesn't win three. Super
Bowls. And they were like, what the hell? Why are you saying
this about me or, you know, who else? So,
again, that just comes with part of the territory,
but but, you know, with Brady Here, I mean again, I just
think it's
he's such, he's gone Global.
That's to me where again. I love Troy Aikman, one of my
favorites ever Peyton Manning. Not sure. Yeah, I would say in
his prime. I don't know if I ever saw a quarterback better
in their Prime and Peyton Manning. I
mean, it's it's it was amazing what we saw all the time,
but at the same time, it's not Tom Brady and where he's at
right now. I mean, Brady has gone Global. We're going to
Germany this year and guess who's going to be there?
Playing
Brady? D, That's where he's gone.
So to me, the he's hit a different Stratosphere here.
I was even shocked that he would even be involved in this
conversation to be on TV,
but obviously with a deal like this, you listen, and he
probably just said, damn, this is too good to turn down. I'm
going to have to do this.
Drew locks Going Global too and mentioned your lock Going
Global. Is he going global Smith's gone global point it at
Seattle's going to Germany.
Yeah. Yeah, but what are the reasons? I'm doing this.
I'll be not that he's ever going to hear this. Not that
it's ever going to pop up on social media or, but I,
I'm trying to, I want him to. I want him.
I want him to be
The guy we've never seen. I want him to be the guy who will
call out,
you know? Yeah, get into it. Yeah, get into it. You know,
a quarterback has a bad game, quarterback makes a bad throw.
There's a way to do it. There's a way to do it tactfully.
And I think you hold the guys who are getting the most money
to a higher standard or guy who's trying to get a big
contract. Hey, you know, if
so-and-so really wants to be paid, 60 million a year. You
can't be making those throws. Can't be making those
decisions. Got it. Got to be a little Calmer in the pocket
there. You can't just bail out that fast. Look, he had if Heda
hey, pull up the telestrator. Look, he had a, he had a
tight end, who chipped the defensive end and then did
a little delayed router across the middle. And that's that was
an improvised that's in there play, that's in there. I've
seen him in Prior, you know, I but whatever
he's in a position where
he can
he can become a John Madden type of a figure in a different
way with what he can
do by way of
raw. Raw honest,
assessment of what he's seeing and make the game. More
accessible and more understandable, not the easy
simple Parts, but the more nuanced Parts, it's not easy.
When you got, you know, a 30-second sound bite, right? At
most before the next play, but
he
here look, it is too much money to say no to, but there's no
guarantee that he's going to be any good and he's got plenty of
time
to get himself ready for
And it's going to it's going to be fascinating that first
Sunday
of the first season. When he finally is retired from the NFL
and takes this job. There's no guarantee. It's 2023. It could
be 24. It could be 25. It's whenever he's done playing. And
as I said, he may be more inclined to keep playing now
because he doesn't want to say
in his first game for Fox these guys suck. Why did I retire?
I'm leaving. I'll see you next year, right,
but whenever that comes
It's going to be a hell of a story.
And in the interim, Fox is going to get a hell of a lot of
free advertising. Is people speculate on what Tom Brady's
going to be whenever he finally does go into the broadcast
Booth. Yeah, it's definitely. Well. I mean, to me, that's
the other kind of intriguing aspect
of this whole thing is, just
the other thing. I thought about after your kind of in
the the shocked at all. That is just like, how long have they
been in talks about this deal?
I mean, you know, again, connecting dots, reading
the tea leaves reading between the tea leaves, whatever.
You want to say?
I mean just this this is must have been going on for quite
a while. I got to think that fox. This is why we never heard them
get into deep serious negotiations at Troy Aikman
that they knew this was coming along at some point. I would
guess. So,
you know, obviously
Brady's had time to think about it digest, it a little bit
and really like like, realize and go, wait. Does this
something I want to do?
Because I would think this has been, you know, talked about
for quite At some time at least four or five months. This is
the with this kind of deal. I would imagine.
I had a reader, send me an email last night suggesting
that this could make Sean McVeigh, revisit his decision
to stay with the Rams. But you know, the bottom line is, they
weren't going to give McVeigh 375 million for 10 years. Old
buddies would have paid him that or anybody was going to
pay you at Brady's. The only one who's getting that hand and
the seats are now full.
The seats are full. The only seat that isn't full is whoever
is going to be the number one Analyst at Fox
until Tom Brady decides to retire
from playing
pro football. Is it going to be Greg? Olson is going to be
somebody else. That's that's it. The temporary one spot at
Fox is the only thing that's unknown and it ain't paying 375
million or thirty seven point five million anything close to
that until Tom Brady shows up with I put there's a dozen
spots now. Yeah, right. What they put him in the Super Bowl
this year, if they lost like, in the Card round like, well,
you know, it's a good question. I know, I really would be
interested. Any many are asking. Yeah, and you're asking
right.
They have Fox had no comment yesterday. Ian Rapoport asked
Fox. Hey, if the Bucks are eliminated, will Brady be in
the booth for the Super Bowl and I
I don't think you just born stride me hard with when you
haven't done it all year, right, but I can't imagine he
won't be part of the 27 hours. Exactly day coverage, right?
He'll be there somewhere right bodies. Deal doesn't
Start until he retires from the NFL said have to work out some
other deal and it probably isn't going to be cheap for Tom
Brady.
You know, it's not. Hey Tom, you know, we're paying to 375
million over 10 years. We do us a solid until the deal starts.
He'll know. You want me to show up. You're paying me. My,
you're paying my daily rate.
You want me? You want me for Super Bowl Sunday?
Let's take 375, million divided by 10 divided by 22. And yeah,
then I'll pop, maybe I'll consider it. Here's the other
side of it to Chris. Yeah, depending upon how they
Exit the 22 season. He may not want to be there. Yeah,
may not want to be involved. Right? Right. They lose
a heartbreaker in the NFC Championship. I don't really
want to show up and talk about this. He's got a certain amount
of self-awareness. You get him in the
days and weeks after he's had his heart ripped out and shown
to him by somebody else. Yeah. And lost a game like that,
right? Like it like this year, if
he's going to show off to do commentary on ramps, 49ers and
if C Championship with fox,
A week after the Rams meet him. I don't think especially if you
have designs on continuing to play. I don't think anything
positive flows from that
and it would be hard for him to do, but that that
whenever they're done this year,
Fox will still have games.
If they don't make it to the NFC Championship. He could be
involved in that right? Okay. Do you don't make it to
the divisional round? He could be involved in that game. I gotta
think this is a little
inkling to of just going like, this is it, this is cut. This
is the last year. I don't think you have this conversation.
Ian, unless you go this is this is going to be it.
I don't think so. And again, I'm not I'm not ready to say.
I hear you. I know I'm just talking. I know that I've never
but you know, it's been 45 for a long time. You know, that was
one of the reasons I got back into the conversation to
Brady's going to come back before. He announced he's
going to come back. If you remember, right? Right.
Because I had somebody
connected to his cab there. Go Chris. He said, 45. I've never
heard the guy not do what he's going to say. He's gonna do.
So I I just it would be interesting to see but you're
right. I know we can never count him out for playing
another year.