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The Colin Coward Podcast 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:54.480 presented by the Fan Duel Sports Book. Hi everybody, and 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.640 welcome into the Monday Morning Podcast. Well, well, well we 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:03.080 have quite a news bomb to drop. Tom Brady's coming back. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:09.240 So Nick Wright is my guest today. I interviewed him 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.679 before this news came down. I'm going to keep it 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:19.080 in the interview because I suspected Tom had about five 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:23.520 percent chance to return, and I'm going to discuss it 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.080 and you'll see Nick's reaction. But I'm not going to 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.840 edit it out. I don't like to edit out stuff 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.120 if I don't have to. I'm going to keep it 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.680 in during the Nick write interview and you'll hear it 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.080 in about fifteen minutes. So let's start with this. I 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.760 have gone over this two or three times on my 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:45.399 national radio and TV shows. Days are very long. You 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.560 sleep seven I sleep seven hours a day. I work 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.040 out for an hour, I eat for an hour. I 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.960 hang out with my wife, I read, I listen to music, 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.480 I take naps, and that's about eighteen and a half hours. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.640 I've got seven left. And I had said this with 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.280 Tom Brady. He's going to hang out with his kids. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.919 But if your kids have a life, they don't want 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.280 to hang out with their mid forty year old dad 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:15.400 all the time. I got kids. My daughter's twenty one, 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.800 she lives, you know in Hollywood. Honey, you want to 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.160 go for lunch. She's got like seven options. She didn't 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.960 even call me back half the time. She shouldn't. She 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:29.400 has a life. My son, he's got friends. You know. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.000 Once kids get the thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen years old, 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.400 it's not that they don't love dad. They got options. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:41.520 And Gizelle isn't some stay at home mom. She's a 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:48.240 supermodel with a eight nine figure annual income. She's plenty busy. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.920 So my takeaway on Brady was he's usually he has 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:58.440 you know, his convictions. But I predicted after the season ended, 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.240 he was very ambiguous. I thought there was a chance 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.639 he retired, and then when he retired, I thought, I'll 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.760 take him in his word, but I think there's a 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.440 chance he comes back. It's a small chance. And I 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:13.680 think Tom has never really given himself six weeks off, 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.639 I mean, really cleared his head, go on a vacation, 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.800 don't take a football, no playbook. He'd never done that 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.280 in the last twenty years. And I think Tom said, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.000 all right, I'm gonna have a couple of beers, eat 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:31.360 some cheesecake, give myself six weeks with the family, and 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.480 came to the conclusion because he still has his health 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.720 and he's still an MVP level quarterback. This year he 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.520 came to the conclusion that I'm really good at football. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.680 There's a lot of hours in these days. I'm gonna 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.080 fill it playing football. My kids are more grown, my 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.800 wife's busy. What are you gonna do backgammon with neighbors. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.160 That's not Tom. Tom is an aspirational guy. I talk 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.880 about this. I'm certainly not anything like a superstar athlete. 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.040 I talked to my wife all the time about this. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.920 If you're compensated at a very high level and you're 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.120 doing something you really love and you're still pretty good 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.080 at it, what are you quitting to I understand people 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.760 who work in factories or have to lift things for 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:21.760 a living, or are in dangerous jobs firemen, police officers, 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:26.520 hey man, get out take the pension. Totally understand it. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:34.880 But glamour jobs right like musicians, athletes, actors, jobs that 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.640 are in entertainment or news. There's a reason these reporters 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.680 and these artists are still traveling. Yeah, believe it or not, 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:47.039 Ario Speedwagon performed this weekend. Why they were paid a lot. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:51.599 It's fun playing music and being adored by fans. I 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.599 get it. Tom Brady gave it six seven, eight weeks. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.200 He'd never done that before, and he came to the 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.719 conclusion that a lot of really willful aspirational people do. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.799 I'm bored. I mean, Tom is mister gold setter, mister achievement. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.720 It is hard to go from zero to sixty for 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:15.440 twenty years and then back to zero and again. I 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.760 think there's a lot of professional careers that you know. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.840 I had a friend years ago who was an oncologist, 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:26.320 you know, a cancer doctor twenty five years. Psychologically, he 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.240 was beat up, he was done, he was tired. He'd 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.839 seen death for two and a half decades. It was time. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.719 That's different than football. And Tom's done a remarkable job 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.719 to stay engaged with younger teammates. And let's be honest 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.200 about this. He was good this year and his only 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.440 loss at the end of the year was to the Rams, 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.960 who won the Super Bowl. The loser in this, my 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:54.760 first thought, the loser in this is Aaron Rodgers because 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.400 all these teams are getting better, all these acquisitions, and 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.080 what did Green Bay do this offseason? Just pay Aaron 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.800 Rodgers more. That's how they improved. They paid Aaron Rodgers more. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.120 So when Tom retired, one of the things I think 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.360 I said it on the podcast. I definitely said it 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.240 before the end of the season. I said, man, I'd 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.800 have a hard time retiring if I was Tom. Look 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.360 at the NFC and this was before Russell Wilson left. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.200 But Trey Lance, we don't know if it's going to work. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:29.600 Matt Stafford McVay, can they repeat, I mean, Dak Cowboys 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.880 are Marii Cooper's gone. Dak's never been good without Amari. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.120 The NFC is wide open. To me, Rams are the 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:41.880 best teams. Tom's back with Tampa second best roster. San Francisco, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.320 if Trey Lance can play, is probably my third pick. 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.240 And then Green Bay kind of falls in that. Dallas 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.440 Arizona good enough to beat anybody, not good enough to 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:57.880 dominate top teams. So the winner in this Fox TV 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.800 gets a great quarterback in the NFC, the winner all 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:08.760 football fans. The loser, you know, potentially McVay, Kyle Shanahan, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:13.320 Aaron Rodgers. But the roadblocks are few and far between 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.040 in the NFC. The bottom of it right now is 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:17.720 a mess. I was talking to a friend about this. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.720 He's a New Yorker, and I said, this league's getting 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.880 like NBA top heavy. I said, name the twelve best 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:31.720 players between the Jets, Giants, Chargers, Rams. New York had 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.560 none of them. None of them. The Giants are awful, 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.160 The Jets are awful. And I said, you start looking 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.520 at the bottom of the NFC right now. Giants are awful, 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.200 Philadelphia is not very good. Winston Washington should be better, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:51.960 but there are limitations. Atlanta, no Saints, no Carolina unless 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:56.800 they land to Shaun Watson kind of a mess. Arizona fascinating, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:01.960 but Cliff Kingsbury yet win a big playoff game. A 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.160 lot of drama this offseason. Trey Lance, we don't know. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.600 Seattle doesn't have a quarterback now. The bottom of the 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.840 NFC is large, the bottom of the AFC is like 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:22.360 Houston the Jets. That's it. So just feels good. A 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.960 little bit of a surprise, not a shock. And I'll 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.480 say it again. The days are long, Tom Brady figured 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.600 out after about sixty eight weeks, might as well fill 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.600 them with something I get great enjoyment from. And I'm 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:40.920 really good at throwing a football in the NFL, I thought. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.200 One of the more interesting moves this weekend by an 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:49.200 NFL team was the Cleveland Browns acquiring Amari Cooper as 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.880 a four time pro bowler in seven years, highly productive, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:57.000 learns a playbook quickly. Going to be very interesting to 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.720 see how this plays out. Jarvis Landry's numbers have dropped, 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.040 Austin Hooper's numbers have dropped since going from Matt Ryan 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:10.360 to Baker Mayfield. Ob J's numbers spiked and production spike 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.000 when he left Baker and went to Matt Stafford. I'm 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.200 very interested to see what happens with Amari Cooper and 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.760 Baker Mayfield. You know, my opinion on Baker is pretty 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.560 well documented. I was harsh on him early and defended 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.080 him at the end of this year. I thought he 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:29.280 was just beaten up everything knees Toes Labram. But I 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.480 don't think Cleveland sees Baker as a long term physical 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:38.560 or emotional fit. Multiple reports they were interested into Shaun Watson. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.600 Don't see that happening. Think he lands in Carolina. Derek 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.160 Carr was also on the radar, follow Mary Kay Cabot. 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.360 I've had her on this podcast. She's an excellent twenty 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.560 year reporter. On the Browns, They're not going to extend 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.199 his contract, but I do think a Mari and Baker, 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.120 you've got to give Baker a shot fighting chance in 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.679 that division. And with Jarvis Landry seeking an exit, the 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:10.160 Browns have reportedly given him the freedom to leave. So 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.640 let's see O B J, Jarvis Landry, Austin Hooper. The 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:20.160 trend is not good. Really talented pass catchers struggling with Baker. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.600 I want to talk about for a few minutes, college basketball, 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.400 the selection committee. I love watching that three Pacific for 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:34.079 most of my adult life. You know, it's interesting. College 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:38.560 basketball is the one sport twenty five years ago that 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.120 was actually much bigger than it is today. It's very, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.400 very hard to follow it unless you literally are a 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.160 college student and go to all the home games, or 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.240 you're a diehard, or you work in the media covering it. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.080 So many games, so many teams, and all the best 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.560 players are one and done. My general rule for the 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:02.120 tournament is the Big Ten will be overvalued and overpicked. 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.160 You have to go back to two thousand when Michigan 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:09.320 State and Tom Izzo won a championship for Sparty, the 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.520 last time the Big Ten won a championship. Before that, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.800 you have to go to the eighties, the late eighties 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.800 with Michigan before that Bobby Night. It's an overvalued conference 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.440 because the brands are big, because they have a good 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.760 TV contract, They're on television a lot, because their arenas 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:28.080 are often jammed Michigan, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Ohio State, Indiana. 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:33.400 It looks big on television and we overvalue the Big Ten. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.440 I've seen Perdue play three or four times. I do 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.840 not think they have a shot to get to the 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:45.120 final four. Similarly, I think we undervalue the SEC because 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.320 we see it as such a football brand, we don't 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.240 pay attention to it. I think one of the best 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.200 young teams in the country's Tennessee. They can play four guards, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:58.960 their backcourt plays real defense, hyper athletic, super young. Wouldn't 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:04.320 be surprised three SEC teams made the Elite eight. Keep 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:08.400 your eye on Tennessee, Kentucky. I'm not sure they're good 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.959 enough doing a natty. A lot of people would argue 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:16.320 they were overseated, but the SEC is clearly absolutely the 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:20.360 better conference than the Big Ten this year. Watch the 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:25.040 Big Ten get over selected and over picked in people's brackets. 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.440 Tennessee's my dark horse. It did feel like to me 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.320 that the selection committee sort of made up their mind 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:35.640 before watching Sunday games due because a number two seed 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:40.440 Michigan got in without a play in game. Listen, it's 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:44.040 a lot of games to watch. Nobody's ever happy. I 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.840 think the best team I've seen, and I've seen them 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.600 play four or five times, was Arizona. That's the best 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.040 team I've seen. Are they going to win it? I'm 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.280 gonna pick them. I'm gonna pick two SEC teams get 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.480 into the final four. I'm gonna pick Arizona to win it, 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.360 and keep your eye on the Tennessee volunteers. 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He's 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.360 launching a new podcast. We'll get into that over the 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.920 next twenty five to thirty minutes. Um, I've got to 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:56.400 start on something because you know, college basketball is there's 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:00.600 so many programs. I think the country is watched less 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.200 of it every year. The one and done has essentially 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.600 cut off the head of college basketball. It's too transactional. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.400 So I want to stick to the NBA, which is 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.960 in your wheelhouse. So I was thinking about you the 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.920 other day. Lebron James is going on this scoring binge, 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.480 and I said, you know, this isn't a lost season 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:25.720 for Lebron because he's never gonna catch Michael and he 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.200 wants to stay as healthy as he can. He's had 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.600 no major injuries, and there is value in having a 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.160 big scoring year and being selfish this year, for the 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.320 first year in his career, I'm gonna score some points. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.280 And he's never been that guy, and I think it's 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.960 remarkable he's become that guy. And I'm like, to me, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.520 my takeaway is, hey, he's looking around the league. He's 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.080 looking around the Lakers' I'm gonna score this year. I'm 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.160 gonna add some points. That's my takeaway on what he's done. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.920 That he knows the chemistry doesn't work, he can't trust 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.080 a d They're going to blow this thing up probably 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.480 in the offseason, and for the first time in his career, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.000 I'm gonna be a little selfish that's my take. What's 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:07.320 remarkable about it, though, is that he can do this 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:12.480 in year nineteen. The most points per game ever for 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:17.400 a guy year nineteen or later is Kareem with fourteen, 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.320 So he's doubling it more than doubling it, right, right. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.520 And the fact that I always believed, you know, he 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.000 said years and years ago, I could win the scoring 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.400 title every year if I really wanted to, and I 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.800 believed that, then I did not go into this year 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:38.080 thinking even if he wanted to, that he could still 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.760 average thirty points per game. I thought he could still 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.200 control games. I thought he could still be the guy 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:47.120 that in a critical fourth quarter of a playoff series 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.960 you would want over any other guy in the league. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.160 I thought maybe he could still get to that. But 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.040 the fact that he's gonna play this year more games 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.760 than Durant and he's gonna potentially win the scoring title, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:03.840 it's there is it's utterly remarkable, And I actually think 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:08.720 your guy Tom Brady, in a weird way, has caused 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:13.639 people to appreciate what Lebron is doing this season a 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.440 little less because Brady, you know, won a Super Bowl 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.760 at forty three, was, you know, was a league MVP. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:25.119 You know, leading candidate at age forty four. So I 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.560 think people are it's like, yeah, this is the era 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.480 of old athletes dominating. But we've never seen anything close 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.720 to this in the NBA, nothing close to it previously. Actually, 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.760 the Brady thing is interesting, I'll pivot to that because 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:43.359 he was in England with his two boys watching a 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.920 soccer game. Ronaldo was there, Christiano Ronaldo arguably the best 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:52.479 living you know, soccer player, right, and you know somebody 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.840 asked him, somebody caught it in a hot mic or something, 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.359 you know, you're retired, right, and he said, you know, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.359 I'm not sure exactly where I am. And this is 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.639 my takeaway is that Brady I predicted this going in. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.040 He and Arians were always going to be a short 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.239 term fix. That was dating. It was never marriage. The 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.280 cultures to lose, the cities to lose. Gazelle and He 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.400 are not Tampa people. It's just not that kind of market, right, 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.480 they would have chosen the Chargers. But you know, a 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.160 couple of years ago so far the Chargers were playing 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.280 in a soccer stadium. They were the number two brand 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.480 in the city. But I do think Brady is doing 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.160 I'll throw this out to you as an older guy, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.480 I can throw this out. I think Brady really was 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.960 going to retire and he said, you know, I've really 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:42.399 never given my family like six to eight weeks off 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.480 a season and just said, let's pretend I'm not playing. 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:50.399 And he's flying around the country and he's probably drinking 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.920 some beer and eating stuff he wouldn't normally eat, spending 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.399 time with his wife, and he just kind of wants 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:00.080 to see how it plays out until the draft, what 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.360 does he feel, and then he's gonna survey the teams 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.919 and if one or two people bite, and I don't 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.000 think there's a lot. I think Kyle Shanahan interests him 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:15.280 because it's a non quarterback centric offense. I think he 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.800 would take a call from them. So that's my suspicion 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.920 with Brady is these ninety five percent out but he's 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:28.919 never really taken eight weeks, never done it out. But 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.040 I feel like you, you think he's gonna play next year? 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.760 Am I wrong on that? I think the draft ends 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.080 he's gonna say, you know, I'm hanging out with my kids, 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.480 I'm hanging out with my wife. I've still got nine 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.959 hours a day. I'm not doing anything because as we 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:48.360 all know, there's a days or long years fly by, 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:52.040 but the days are long, especially with kids, right, And 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.760 he's sitting there and his boys have friends and they've 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.120 got peers and they do stuff and they don't want 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.479 to hang out with dad. And he's like, and I 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.240 think he would take a call first week of May. 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.640 That's my takeaway. But that hold on. I'm so because 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.280 here's the thing. If he's gonna take the call, then 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:14.680 he's gonna play right like that's and it feels like 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:19.520 it's such a weird thing because on our show, Kevin 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.719 Wilds keeps making this point he's not wrong, which is 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.879 he had no retirement ceremony. He's like Joe Montana retired 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.320 in front of twenty thousand people and you know, in 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.800 Candlestick or wherever it was there was. He's like, Tom 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:36.840 Brady's not going to retire via Instagram post. And I 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:39.560 understand that part of it. The part of it that 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:43.800 I don't understand if he wants to come back, is this, 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:49.479 why ever announced the retirement. Why not simply say listen, 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.440 I'm gonna take the next two months to contemplate my 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:56.200 future and leave it at that. It just it feels 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:00.600 unless it's because he wants to leave. He wants keep playing, 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.520 and he wants to leave Tampa. If this is all 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:07.919 one long con to get to San Francisco, Like, I 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.679 don't know. I also think it's possible. Like it seems 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:16.040 like the football world like there was an old Seinfeld 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:20.919 episode where they said the breakup didn't take, Like just 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.600 somebody tried to break up with someone and the other 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:25.840 person was like, no, I reject it. He's like, I 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:29.960 guess so together, it feels like the football media has 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:34.720 decided this retirement didn't take. We don't accept your retirement, 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:37.080 Tom Brady, like the president on his desk, like someone 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.680 submits the resignations. They're like, no, I don't accept it. Meanwhile, 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:44.160 Brady seems to be kg about it, and he's like 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:47.080 somewhat ambivalent. The whole thing is one of the weirdest 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.840 things I've ever seen, Colin, because it feels like a 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:52.679 lot of people really expecting to play next year and 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.000 to be on a different team, and that this was 0:21:55.040 --> 0:22:01.000 all theater. Yeah, I don't think it's theater. I think 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.960 Brady's really sharp and that he doesn't want to box 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:08.040 himself in Peyton Manning's done this where Peyton keeps himself 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:11.560 open to ownership a front office and hey, while I'm 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:13.200 doing it, I want to make about twenty million a 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:16.880 year doing the manning cast and put my personality out there. 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:19.760 But I won't sign a long term deal with anything. 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:21.960 I want to keep my options open. You and I 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.879 often have to sign contracts, not that we're cornered, but 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:29.800 there's certain you know, the tarmac is shortened, right, there's 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:32.000 certain things we have to do, and I think the 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:36.080 rare what superstars and Lebron did this at the height 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:37.720 of his powers. I'm going to give you a one 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:42.240 year contract. Yeah, yeah, I trust And by the way, 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.560 sorry to bring it back to just real quick. Lebron 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:48.480 finally didn't do that and now regrets it. I'm sure. 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:51.800 After winning the title with the Lakers, signed the extension early, 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:56.320 gave them extra time, and they immediately screwed him, like 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:59.160 they didn't have the urgency at the deadline that all 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:01.440 his other teams did. They didn't want to trade to 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:03.520 twenty twenty seven draft pick, and they're like, you can't 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:07.919 leave anyway, buddy, Like so like the having that you know, 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:11.679 taking that tarmac away or that runway away from you 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:15.520 can be used against you immediately, but go ahead, sorry, 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:20.680 if you really think of what the bigger picture on 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:24.080 the Lakers to me is that in nine seasons they've 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:28.159 had seven losing seasons. If Ohio State football, Kentucky basketball, 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:32.480 Yankee baseball in nine years had seven losing seasons, that's 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:36.280 with Lebron and Kobe, you'd be like, oh, that's poor ownership. 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:40.840 Nobody in Los Angeles because they like Genie Buss, right, 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:45.280 and the LA media is not as angry as Boston, Philly, 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:49.800 New York, not as provincial perhaps as a Dallas or Chicago, 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:54.160 but it's a pretty easy media. Yeah, nobody will acknowledge this. 0:23:55.000 --> 0:24:00.199 It's poorly owned and poorly runned with Lebron James, the 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:03.760 bigger question has given you a false sense of achievement. 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:09.919 This is a nine years, seven losing seasons. That's the Mariners. 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:13.119 I grew up with that. Those are poor And by 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:15.800 the way, during that time, they've had in nine years 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:18.800 four head coaches and one hundred and twelve players. That's Detroit, 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:24.080 that's Orlando, that's Cleveland. People here are just you know this, 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:27.840 in the media, they like Anderson Cooper. Nobody will ever say, 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:30.840 you know, he's never won his time slot. The media 0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:35.080 plays favorites. They like Genie, it's poorly owned, it's poorly run, 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:37.760 and by the way like and I don't think that 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:40.480 it has to be like. So the fact of the 0:24:40.520 --> 0:24:44.919