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"INQUIRED"?! Wait... Does Tom Brady want to be a QB again in the #NFL? Do you believe Tom Brady is "happily retired", or does he have the 'itch'? What are your thoughts?
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00:00okay to quote wiggy or rather wiggy's mom i i know i'm gonna sound like a broken record
00:06but this man that we're about to talk about is a broken record tom brady oh oh man the same
00:13lead
00:14but go ahead okay okay go ahead do you want me to pivot to something else you sure go ahead
00:18he was
00:19on cnbc and said that he inquired about what it would take for him to unretire he said he inquired
00:27about being a partial owner and minority owner of the raiders coming back out of retirement and quote
00:34they don't like that idea very much so i'm gonna have to leave it at that but he said we
00:38explored
00:39a lot of different things i'm very happily retired let me just say that too okay then why say it
00:45at
00:45all right right why say it at all unless he thinks that he needs to push for this to be
00:51a reality for
00:52future players who are gonna have the capital to get in on another team and they want to be
00:57owner players or coaches that want to be uh coaches and owners and he thinks that this is the direction
01:04that the league needs to move in but i don't think he's thinking like that i think he's thinking that
01:08he wants to leave the door open to come back and he keeps doing it he's getting more and more
01:15open i
01:16know we started off this week talking about him in the flag football fanatics game and it sounded
01:21crazy but it's only been a week not even now and the door is like a quarter more open he's
01:29got that
01:29itch i told you he has that itch and he goes out there and he knows like we we like
01:35i think he's happy
01:37with being in the booth right he gets to stay around but he wants to be involved in the game
01:43he wants to
01:44be out there he looks at these guys when they're making bad throws he's like wait a second i'm
01:48better than half these guys out there i could do better than and then he goes out there and he
01:53does
01:53a little flag football and that kind of gets those juices flowing what i could not tell when he said
01:59this yesterday was when he reached out and inquired about it and so i think that's important like if he
02:06did it after the fanatics game then it says to me he really really really does want to play again
02:14right if he did it a while ago and he's just sharing that now then maybe he has become more
02:21comfortable
02:22with where he is in life and the fact that he has his obligation on television and his obligation with
02:30fanatics and his obligation with the soccer club and all all of those things i and they reached out
02:37on that very topic and i believe he said we explored a lot of different things when it came to
02:48a comeback
02:49so i don't know when that was this was mego's lead a little while ago was going to be my
02:55lead
02:55so we are uh co-joining on on this one uh but i i he is very clear that he
03:05wants to be very clear
03:07about enjoying what he is doing and that is most likely because uh he is being paid 25 million dollars
03:16a year to do it um so he he doesn't want his uh work overlords to think that he's uh
03:23trying to get a
03:24side hustle going uh but but i mean it sounds to me like he has at least inquired and i
03:31wonder how
03:32that makes you feel about tom brady well i've always said it his competitiveness um and having that itch
03:40and being around the game and him excuse me knowing that physically he could still perform at that level
03:49but he doesn't really he's not saying that he's saying that he realized in that fanatics game that
03:56he doesn't want to be hit right i mean he i last like the last five years of his career
04:02they wouldn't
04:02allow anybody to hit him anyway in the league but um he also says that he's very comfortable in
04:07retirement and that game led him to realize that so he's i i think he's trying to have it both
04:14ways
04:14like a texter i don't know how you feel about tom but uh uh 617 texter says no one needs
04:23the
04:23attention more than tom brady does lol and i well i would ask this question i don't know if that's
04:28what this is about how long did he play professional football for 20 plus years so he knows in professional
04:35football what's the number one thing they do hit now all of a sudden you're inquiring about
04:41something on what it would take to come back and play you clearly know they hit professional
04:46football so even if you're playing flag football and you're like all right it's cool i'm not getting
04:50hit you know if you're inquiring about it and what what you would need to do that tells me you
04:58want to
04:59come back and play how do i do that and still maybe keep my stake in the team is the
05:05world is there a
05:06way where i can put it on pause like he's looking for all these ins and outs because he wants
05:13to come
05:14back and play not because he felt good playing flag football yeah this is what he wants to do
05:20most importantly to me he wants this out there why does he want this out there because you better
05:28believe brady is not going on cnbc without having the questions there before and vetted and saying
05:35yeah this is good i want to get this message out there so i do i do so why does
05:40he want it out
05:41there he is clearly to me either pushing something where hey players and coaches should be able to
05:47have a stake in a franchise or he's saying i want everyone to know that i've asked about coming back
05:54and they basically closed that door on me if i'm going to be an owner and i would like to
05:58still be an
05:59owner so are you going to bend the rules for me the way that you bent the rules for me
06:02when i wanted
06:03to be an owner and a broadcaster and in the coach's booth with the headset on this is not
06:08unprecedented for him great point right but he also he wants to get it out there that they weren't uh
06:16very uh you know open to the concept when they brought it up so as to maybe create some pressure
06:24on them to be open to the concept but he also knows that the concept or you being an owner
06:32slash player he also knows that from day one you can't do both so i don't think he's doing it
06:39that
06:39to open up the door but you can in other leagues no what you can't michael jordan in mls you
06:44can
06:45they did it for lionel messy yeah they did it for messy because they wanted to basically
06:50get people to watch this league that's the only reason why they did it and they wanted more eyes
06:57on the mls so they're like sure we'll give you a stake in it because we're bringing one of arguably
07:02the greatest soccer players to come to a league that we need to push some life into it but you
07:07can't do it in baseball you can't do it in basketball you can't do it well in the nba you
07:11can have a stake in wnba teams as an nba player right but i'm talking i'm saying it's not like
07:17it's
07:17totally like there is some gray area and i think to sit here right but those are the leagues that
07:24need the eyes we're talking about the nba the nfl the nhl major league baseball the reason why he's
07:31doing this he's putting that feeler out there to see which team that has talent that might pick up
07:39the phone and say hey tom any chance you want to come play for us because he doesn't want to
07:45go
07:45back and play just for anybody so let's it's possible that he inquired about it because he
07:51as i said prior to the break i need to know when he asked about it to be able to
07:57determine what the
07:58motivation here is for sharing it but it's it's it's possible that they inquired about it when he
08:05was thinking about buying his five percent of the raiders and wanted to know does that preclude me
08:12from coming back at some point if i want to come back week 14 week 15 whatever it is for
08:19somebody
08:19but i'll give you that but like philip rivers did but the big but the ultimate reason why the big
08:25picture reason why on he him doing this is because he wants to play again because even if he's going
08:30down that road greg like you're saying when he first acquired the the ownership and he's asking about
08:36it he knows in his mind that hey i might want to come back and play yeah so that's the
08:42thing and
08:42that's always the question that we asked about brady is he gonna just be happy with being in the booth
08:49or does he want to come back and play clearly he wants to come back and play and he's hoping
08:55that if
08:55he puts this out there a team that has a lot of talent that might have some quarterback questions
09:01says hey tom come play for us and now he wants to know how does he get out of the
09:06raiders thing
09:07and be able to go play for this team for one season and have another shot of a winning another
09:12super bowl and doing something that nobody else can say they did excellent question in the twitch chat
09:18would tom brady have survived an entire season with the offensive line that drake may had here
09:24last season no no he would have got smoked no no but he would have got the ball out quick
09:30because remember the offensive line you have to have receivers open to get the ball out but the
09:34offensive line wasn't great in tampa bay when he was down there they had issues that offensive line
09:39it wasn't a great offensive line he's but he's good enough and smart enough to maybe get the ball out
09:44he we know that he doesn't has enough power to basically go to the offensive court and say
09:48coordinator and saying here's what we're doing if he knows he has a bad offensive line he has the juice
09:53to
09:54completely change the game plan so wiggy with the ownership question though think about this a
09:59different way because you're saying okay with mls i agree with wnba these are these are franchises
10:04that are these are leagues that need eyes yes so they're going to be a little more lenient we talked
10:09the other day about the 18 game season and how the owners keep pushing that and the cba like they
10:18are
10:18going to get to a point where that's going to be an issue where players are going to say how
10:22many
10:22freaking games are you going to ask us to play could this be a negotiating measure between
10:28the nfl pa and owners to say hey maybe instead of expanding this like players get a little slice
10:37of the pie at least while they're playing for that team maybe it's something where it's like that's
10:41only available on your second contract like rookies can't do this or later on i mean like in in the
10:47business world somebody eventually earns equity in the company yes so somebody who's at the level of
10:54say a josh allen who's been with one team the whole time right and multiple contracts and is obviously
11:01like a cornerstone of that franchise at this point right he can get a slice of the pie of buffalo
11:07but
11:08if something happens where he decides to aaron rogers it up and go somewhere else they say well just like
11:14we're not paying your salary anymore you had to give back your equity stake or at least have some
11:18like dead cap version of that left i mean i i listen i think it's fantasy land the idea is
11:24great
11:24you're you're going down the road it's like all right we don't have enough to pay you for this movie
11:28but what we'll do is we'll give you a cut of the box office and how much the movie makes
11:32kind of
11:32in that way that you're saying we're a small ownership stake in this in this team owners are not doing
11:38that batter challenge issued by a 603 texter on your statement that the o-line in tampa was uh was
11:45bad
11:45the texter says it was awesome no they weren't they weren't great they had issues with tristan
11:50uh how do you say his last name worse their their interior they had some issues with
11:56they weren't like this unbelievable philadelphia eagles line that people praise they had issues the
12:03thing that i look at when i see this situation i i think the issue becomes you're not really going
12:11to get many guys that get to this level you may be a brady a lebron in basketball uh maybe
12:18a josh
12:19allen patrick mahomes where they're still good enough in their 40s where they might want to retire
12:26and buy a team and they have enough money to do it he's almost 50 right tom brady's 48 years
12:32old
12:32right and he's throwing it out there that he's inquired about playing right because he wants to
12:37play he knows exactly what he's doing right and he don't you think he wants to play i don't know
12:42he
12:42wants people to be talking about like we are right now about whether he's whether he's going to come
12:46back or not that's what i think he wants i but but i'm i'm sure he i i mean if
12:53he really wanted to
12:53play give up the five or sell the five percent go sell it to somebody else and go play for
12:59somebody
12:59which i think ultimately he'll end up doing you do yeah because if you're asking all these questions
13:04he's 48 years old but he in his mind 25 million a year talking like in his mind can he
13:11go out there
13:12and be a top 10 quarterback right now on you know when you start to look at the guys in
13:17the league
13:17just for one year curtis said that as a lead that monday i i don't i i don't i don't
13:21know if he's a top
13:2210 quarterback or not i mean for one year we went down this road would you rather have um i
13:28don't know
13:28kyla murray or jj mccarthy in minnesota or brady they're not going to be a top 10 quarterback like
13:35what are you doing what do you what do you mean think of somebody who's like on the fringe of
13:38being top 10 this year like bonix maybe so let me ask a good one well let me ask you
13:42this one year
13:43would you rather have justin herbert or tom brady justin herbert i'm gonna say tom brady because
13:48justin herbert is a choke artist so there you go and brady's the opposite and wouldn't you say that
13:54justin herbert is considered a top 10 quarterback yes we asked the other question would you rather
14:00have tom brady or jalen hurts for one year oh with that o-line i'd go brady all day he
14:05wouldn't get
14:06touched his uniform would so not only does he think it we as fans and probably all the nfl experts
14:13out
14:13there would answer the same way and think for one year you'd rather have brady so that's why i think
14:20people still think he could play at 49 years old or 48 whatever he is
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