WEBVTT - Brady's back; Watson's future; Free Agency frenzy 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:15.560 I'm Brett Louis and this is NFL Inside Report. He's back, 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.920 Tom Brady, just like he never left. Now coming back 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.840 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after just a short couple 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.040 of weeks of retirement, back in the fold, back with 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.480 the Bucks and also back with us to talk all 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.200 about it. Two of our favorites here on NFL Inside Report, 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:38.199 Judy Batista and Sarah Walsh and guys, great to be 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:42.880 here with you. Um, Sarah, So Tom's back and this 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.120 guys and Judy, I want you to hear this too, 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.680 because it's time for Sarah to take a victory lap. 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.440 Just an observation. When Tom Brady walked off the field 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.279 last night, there was not a moment's pause. If you're 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.680 gonna walk away from football after two decades, there was 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:00.800 never this moment that I saw out of him where 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.240 he stopped pause, looked around, just ran out their business 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.040 like and if you go back and think about Drew Brees, 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.000 there was that moment where he was taking it all in. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.840 Brady wasn't taking it all in. He ran off the 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.200 field to me like a man that would be back. 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:23.120 Thank you, because for the last for the last forty days, 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.000 I felt really stupid, and I'm like, maybe I had 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.759 a bad Like it wasn't inside information, but when people 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.640 would say to me, what is your gut say and 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:32.679 I and I was like, my gut doesn't say that 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.560 he's done. He just threw forty three touchdowns. He came 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.000 a very long field goal away from going to the 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.920 conference championship game. I specifically remember that the game was 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.800 so crazy at the end, but I specifically remember as 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.160 soon as it ended, I was like, fine, Brady, and 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.160 just keep your eyes on him and watch what he does. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.200 But I was even surprised about two weeks priors when 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.240 those articles started to come out that he might be done. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:55.800 And I remember when they started to come out, and 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.440 I'm like, he might be done. Like we just kept 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.520 talking to him all season long about how long is 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.240 he going to go? Because his year was so good 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.480 and it was just like such a quick turn at 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.800 the end that didn't really make sense to me. Um, 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.600 I mean, the family stuff makes sense. But yeah, that 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.120 was my read, and like we can all have bad reads, right, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.320 so for the last forty days, I was like, you 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.760 didn't read the situation, read the room while Sarah, But 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.680 so thank you for noticing that because I felt silly, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.440 and now I don't feel silly. Well, and look, I 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.600 think that we should we should have expected this because 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.720 Tom Brady has been one of the very best in well, 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.480 I mean best of all time in working through his 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.240 progression right finding the open receiver. That's essentially what he 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.680 did here. He had to go through the whole progression 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.079 of being retired, came back to the open receiver, which 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.040 was obviously the Tampa Bay Bucks who had a need 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.400 clearly for him to come back at quarterback and all 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.120 the talk about leaving the light on for him like 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.079 it was Motel six. Um, and they did, and now 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:52.120 he's back in Tampa. Judy, what was your reaction when 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.360 you first saw the tweet? Um? I had to like 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.600 double check and make sure it wasn't from a you know, 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.560 a fake account, right, yes, exactly. Pay. I read it once. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.240 I checked to make sure Tom Brady okay, yeah, it's 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.480 got the verified blue check. And then I read it 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.679 to my family. We were sitting here watching the selection Sunday, 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.160 and uh, I read it and I said, I think 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.040 Tom Brady just announced he's coming back on Twitter. And 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.920 then you know, and then it just exploded. Honestly, I 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.000 was not surprised, first of all, because I was most 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.720 surprised that he retired. Like Sarah said, like I was 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:25.680 at that game too, he did not look like a 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.839 man who was bidding farewell to the NFL. And then 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.160 he started I don't want to say it was that checking, 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.000 but like you, you could tell he was having second 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.400 thoughts almost immediately, right like, well we'll see you never 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.320 say never, you never because there and so you're sort 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.680 of like, oh, he's going, you know. And I had 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.880 heard all the things towards the end of the year 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.040 too that maybe he um, you know, was frustrated in Tampa, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.360 and maybe the relationship in Tampa was was not working out, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.200 and so maybe he would come back to go elsewhere. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.720 That seemed unrealistic because why would the box ever do that? Right, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.680 So when he said I'm coming back to the books, 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.400 it was like, yeah, hey, that makes sense. If he's 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.960 coming back, it's it's gonna be the Bucks. It's it 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.320 was always strange to meet you. Tom Brady has never 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.840 struck me as somebody who would leave. When he was 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.160 still playing at the level he played at last year, 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.360 he was he could have been the league in VP 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:18.200 last year and and as as Sarah just said, you know, 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.960 came this close to go to the conference championship games. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.279 So to me, he's one of those guys you know 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.600 you're gonna have to drag him off the field or 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:31.240 he's going to have to sense that he is declining dramatically, 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.000 and neither of those things was the case. Or say, 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.320 duty you come back, you win it all and then 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.920 you might drop it that right, I mean the fact 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.960 that he said fun finished business, right, Yeah, if he 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:44.560 could have done that a year ago and gone out 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.159 that way, and it just seems so anticlimactic when you 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.279 played as well as you played, right, um, right, and 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:52.520 I think you know, if you come back and win 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.520 it all, then yeah, I think you think about doing 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.880 it that way, right, And I mean, look, he's he's 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:59.400 a smart guy, right. I mean he had to have 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.440 looked at what up until the roster last year, Right, 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.200 the first year he was there, they had tremendous injury 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.840 walk like practically no injuries. Last year caught up with them. 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.479 They had a ton of injuries. So he has to 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.680 be looking at that landscape and saying, like, you know, 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.480 hope we were this close and we had all those injuries, like, 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.599 you know, if we can get any part of this 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.479 roster together, we're gonna be in the mix. He also 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.520 has to be looking at the NFC, which, let's face 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.280 it is, you know, is not the a f C, 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.360 no doubt. Chris Godwin, by the way, chief among those 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.000 key injuries from a year ago. Get to Chris Godwin 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.320 here in just a little bit. Um, but I did 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.400 want to hit I mean, and thank goodness that we 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.880 all didn't have to hear on on you know, Sunday 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.240 and Monday. Continue trying to read the lips of Tom 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.320 Brady talking to Christiano Ronaldo at the Manchester United game 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.440 where you know, apparently he sat down with the Glazer family, right, 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.880 and maybe that's where all this kind of started, or 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.760 at least came to a culmination, um, you know, talking 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.719 about all that where he was, you know, and Ronaldo 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.240 asked him, are you finished? And he goes and then 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.240 we didn't really know what was said. Afterwards, Now we 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.720 know and he's like, yeah, no, I'm coming back. Um. 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:07.720 And then let's let me get to that part here 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.080 because Judy mentioned it. Sarah, what was your read on 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:16.039 any potential frustration or growing sour of the relationship that 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.120 there might have been between Tom and Bruce and and 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:23.120 Byron and that whole triumvirant of offensive masterminds down there 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.719 in Tampa. You know, I didn't really see that. But 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:28.720 I also think, like, if you go back to even 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.080 last year, again, I'm not seeing the stuff that's behind 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.040 closed doors. But I didn't get that sense. Um. You know, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.159 when you go back to last year when Tom, you know, 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.320 had a bad game, people were freaking out that Bruce 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.159 would be like, yeah, that pick was on him because 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.560 you never heard that before, because Belichick would never say 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.480 something like that. And Tom is still human, even though 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.920 he's the greatest of all time, right, so there there 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.520 were interceptions that were on Tom and Bruce would say 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.839 that and people would freak out and go, oh my god, 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:58.320 like can you believe he would say that to Tom? 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.680 And I'm like, um, I think Tom's pretty realistic and 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.240 no one's more competitive than Tom. So I don't think 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.120 Tom is the kind of person that's throwing someone under 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.000 the bus, like if he feels like he messed it up, 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:08.960 and so so much was made about if you even 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.480 think about that, and then they went on to win 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.160 a super Bowl, So I didn't I didn't really put 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:13.880 a lot of stock in that because I do believe 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.800 like if Tom wants something changed, Tom would get it changed. 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:18.560 Right If if Tom didn't like the way Byron was 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.640 doing something or didn't like the way they were calling something, 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.480 I think that they would get a change. Now you're 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.440 you're dealing with high profile people, people that have been 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.000 successful at high levels, right, and are you gonna butt 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:31.920 heads and you're gonna clash on some things? Like? I 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.640 think that's a realistic. I think that that's normal. I 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.240 don't think that it was. It was something crazy, but 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.360 it's just like everything always gets twisted and it has 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.560 to be more than that, right. I also don't think 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.680 that Tom Brady is going to just quit football because 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.480 he's clashing with Bruce on something, right, Like, He's not 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.520 gonna do that, Like, it's just he's gonna go when 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.080 he wants to go, do it the way. Yeah, And 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:52.840 I really think you know, the one thing you hear 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.720 about Bruce constantly is he's a truth teller, sometimes too 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.720 to the fault of like the PR. The PR guys 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.600 would sa, hey, we wish he wasn't so honest, and 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:03.840 you know personally, like I would want to play for 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.720 somebody like that. I would want to play for somebody 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.560 or work for somebody that levels with you and doesn't 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.560 tell you what you want to hear. And you know, 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.680 if anything, if they've had tough conversations, are hard conversations, 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.760 I feel like they probably both level with each other. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.240 And you know, Bruce knows that, like this thing doesn't 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.080 go without Tom. And I think you also saw them, 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.160 you know, nobody really believed it when he was like, yeah, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.040 I'm good with playing Gavitt and Kyle trash, like no 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.640 one really believed that. But you also didn't see them. 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.600 You didn't see them like really like going out there 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.280 and making moves for other things. And when we were 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.920 at the Combine two weeks ago, I think we were 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.000 talking about this there right, like if you wanted to 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.600 move on, you sort of would have said you moved on, 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:40.720 and that clearly, you know, even to your point about 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:44.000 the Glazers meeting with him at that Manchester United game, 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.840 obviously these conversations were taking place back then at the 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.320 Combine and to the Bucks credit. Again, Jason and Bruce 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.720 didn't lie, like they didn't say yet we're going after 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.640 other people and Tom's moved on. I mean, they were 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.640 kind of obvious about what was going on. And when 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.960 that happened, I'm like, Okay, well this isn't this isn't 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.559 coming out of out of nowhere right there, not saying 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.880 I mean Bruce even said if it's August and Tom 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.480 wants to come back, he'll come back. Now your story 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.280 pursuing yeah as a starter, So you're not going out 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.560 and pursuing DeShawn Watson and saying, hey, come here. But 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.600 just by the way, if Tom wants to like kick 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.880 you out come August, you're out of there. Like, so 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.120 this has all been it's all been going on, and 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.200 maybe Tom just needed a reset. And like you said, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.760 like this seemed like a great idea the week after 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.560 you announced it, and then maybe it wasn't as great 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.559 of an idea three weeks from then, and then four 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.200 weeks from them you're like, I feel great, Like I 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.120 just had a great season, um and things change. But 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.600 I personally don't put like stock in that story about 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.200 the headbutting thing as much as it was, which isn't 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.560 to say that they never putted heads, but I don't 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.880 think more so than the normal amount. By the way, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.160 you just go tell the Hannak over there, pr just 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.440 to step up and deal with the honesty. Okay, enough 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:53.920 of the okay, hey, but for the media it's so 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.600 great center of and maybe they can't. He does what 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.040 he wants, which is why he's so great. Yeah, no doubt, 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.800 but does what he wants, not mechanics one of the guys, correct, 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:12.720 Judy the continuity, um now Bruce, Brady, Byron all back 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.520 for a third season together. And we saw what season 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.000 two really started to look like when everybody was healthy. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:20.920 They kind of kept trying to keep it together down 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.679 the stretch. But I'm expecting nothing less than what we 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.360 got at the start of last year. No, I think 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.840 the big question is, first of all, what will God 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.960 was condition when he comes back. That's that's the big one, UM. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.080 And then how much more they can keep intact because 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.640 they have a load of free agents. They're not all 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.520 going to be coming back. We already know some of 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.880 them who I mean, Ali Marpetto is retired and is 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.920 going to stay retired. Um. And Alex Coppa, the other 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:55.720 guard is is already Cincinnati cincinat Cincinnati right so UM, 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:57.280 so we know it's not going to be intacted. I 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.559 thought the big thing last night was like as soon 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.960 as Brady said coming back, like five minutes later, it 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:08.360 was like, then, imagine that's so. I think that's It's 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:12.439 almost like they talked duty ahead. It's like the mind 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.240 meld thing. Um, you know, I think that's a key thing. 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.839 You're right that the offense was at a different level 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.080 at the start of last year when everybody was healthy, 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.000 and then obviously as the injuries took a hole, you know, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.120 it tailed off, and certainly we saw that at the end. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.960 But um, I think assuming that Chris Godwin comes back 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.600 in anything approaching Chris Godwin form, and you've got Mike 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.080 Evans and you you fill in some holes on the 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:40.600 offensive line, Gronk, I have to think there's one right, right, 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.320 you have to think. I mean, Gronk had never shut 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.480 the door on continuing to play. He's been working out 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.679 in Tampa. I mean, come on, you got to get 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.920 him back. And can you get Leonard four Nette back. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.040 You know he's going to have a market. But I 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.280 think if they can keep as much as they can together, 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.640 then yeah, I think I think they're going to play 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:01.760 at a high level. And don't forget this. You know 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.120 this division well it did look to be wide open 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.200 until Tom Brady came back, and now it doesn't spear 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.760 to be that wide open um at all. And the 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.240 to me, the only question then is does you know 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.640 to the Saints where the Panthers get to Shawn Watson, 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.560 because then that becomes the team that maybe can challenge 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.719 the box. But who knows, you know, and that that 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.719 was something we will discuss here um in just a 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.960 couple of moments. Last one here in the box free 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.760 agents that you're that you're looking at their Sarah you 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.600 know grown for Net Sue, Jason, Pierre Paul, that that 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.440 whole crew. I mean, you anticipate almost of those guys 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.800 getting getting a good look to come back. Here. I 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.320 brought up this point on NFL Network. You know, we 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.800 want to go through this whole list of Kim Tom 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.120 get his entire band back together. But we also saw 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.560 like he's Tom Brady and he can have success without 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.800 the flaggiest names. He did that in New England without 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.880 the flashiest receiver. So here's what we know right now. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.480 Let's just say he gets Gronk back, because I think 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:00.280 it'd be more surprising if he didn't come fact than 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.439 he did. Right, So let's say get strong back. He's 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.840 got a Pro Bowl Hall of Famer and Rob Bronkowski. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.760 He's got two Pro Bowl receivers in Chris Godwin and 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.400 Mike Evans, and then you know Leonard Fournette. That would 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.480 be a big win for them if he can get back, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.640 because he does so much and when it comes to 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.560 pass catching as far as running it. But look at 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.240 the end of the year. Last year, he was during 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.520 game winning touchdowns to Cyril Grayson who never played college football. 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.880 He threw a game winning touchdown to Brashad Berryman. We 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.600 weren't talking about any of those guys in weeks one 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.840 through ten of the season. I mean, it doesn't matter. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.679 He'll go find someone on the practice squad and he'll 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.200 throw them a game win he touchdown. I mean, that 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.839 is the difference between Tom Brady and everybody else that 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.640 has ever played this game. So I think especially as 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.680 we look at free agency and you look how scarce 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.360 the quarterback options are when you look at the list 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.480 of who's available. I mean there's teams that are in 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.480 a real need and the Bucks just went out and 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.400 for the second time got the greatest of all time. 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.920 I feel like everything else at this point where is 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.000 icing on the cake. They'll make it work. The Bucks 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.760 are gonna do everything they can to make them happy. 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.559 You better believe that, because they were definitely promised this 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.640 made to him to get him to come back. But 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.360 whoever is on that roster on any given game day, 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.600 I mean it's Tom Brady and so you have a chance. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.400 I think you're right. And the last question here on 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.600 the Brady um deal, because somebody got a raw deal. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:19.080 Somebody paid a whole lot of money. Been Tom Brady's 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:23.360 last touchdown pass thousand dollars. In fact, I think at 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.000 that point I thought he was getting a bargain because 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:26.320 there was a lot of talk to that ball could 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.000 have gone for north of a million bucks. Is that 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.760 guy get a refund? Like? What is that? And I 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.200 just say, this is kind of harsh. I'm having trouble 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.920 working up angst for someone who can spend five thousand 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:44.160 dollars on a football. Okay, it didn't work out. You 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.960 spent five hundred dollars on a football. You probably have 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.880 another five hundred thousand dollars laying around somewhere. I'm like duty, 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.640 I'm a duty, she's not she's not wrong, I'm not 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.240 like I'm not a memorabilial person in that thing. It'd 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.200 be cool, but I think the lesson learned, like for 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.640 everyone that that's in that situation. And how many times, 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.600 by the way, this year did the Box have situations 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.880 where they gave away every single game Week one. I 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.040 can't even imagine the bios at the box PR guys again, 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.520 shut up buckx PR have to put together like every 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.360 week we get a list and this will start week 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.560 one of the records that Tom's going to break during 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.760 the games, which they're all his at this point. So 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.160 every ball that they give to anyone in the stands 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.680 is like some record or it's some miless. They have 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.000 to retrieve it. I don't have to go retreat it. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.920 They have to pull deals, they have to whatever. So 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.520 like lesson, learn whatever ball your handed, like, you don't like, 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.160 just be appreciative it to Tom Brady football And I 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.360 don't Maybe they stop that all together next year. Maybe 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.480 Mike Evans because he's the one that's given them all away, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.560 just kind of like hoards these things and then like 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.680 turns it into like a scholarship fund, because that's something 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.960 like that, Mike Evans. But yeah, right, I mean, maybe 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:49.920 he should think about that before he's like tossing him 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.600 up into the stands. But I did think of that though. 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.400 R at like that guy missed the mark by just 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.560 like a couple of hours. Yeah, it happened on like Sunday, 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.560 right or Saturday, Saturday, something like like a couple of 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:08.280 hours before. Yeah, that I mean. I also I would say, like, 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.359 you know, you gotta check in with your football reporters 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.840 who were already having doubts that Tom was really retired 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.880 before you invest in Tom's last football no doubt. And 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.880 while Tom might be the biggest piece of the quarterback 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:27.320 puzzle to fall into place here, there are still many 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:32.480 left to go. One Deshaun Watson. We did get another one, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:36.360 though Mitchell Robinski has found a new home. Deshaun Watson 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.000 still looking or other teams looking for him. We'll figure 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:57.440 out which way that goes right after this. But the 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.400 free agency frenzy is off in running back here on 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.520 NFL Inside Report, Duty, Batista and Sarah Walsh are with us. 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.399 Talked about one of the biggest pieces to the quarterback 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.760 puzzle at the top there, Tom Brady coming back to 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.960 the Bucks. Sounds like Mitchell Trabiski is expected to sign 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.159 a two year deal and expected to be the starter 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:18.199 in Pittsburgh. Aaron Rodgers back in Green Bay. Obviously, the 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.960 two big trades we've seen thus far, Russell Wilson the 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.840 mega deal to go to Denver, leaving Seattle the only 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.960 home he's ever known in the NFL. Carson Wentz also 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.720 one and done in Indianapolis and now shipped off to 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.720 the Washington Commanders. And so all attention really turning to 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:38.160 Deshaun Watson, who was cleared of criminal charges this past week, 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:43.240 obviously still facing some civil suits and potential NFL discipline. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.160 But Sarah, as you're looking at the sweepstakes, we've talked 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:49.879 to Jane Slater has talked a lot about the Saints 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.199 being all in on Deshaun Watson. The Panthers made moves 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.960 and overtures towards for the to the Texans to get 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.280 Deshaun watching services last year and couldn't get it done. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.639 Where do you sit on all the Deshaun Watson potential 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.280 trade talk here? I think he's gonna go to the 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.639 NFC South. Now, whether that's the Panthers are the Saints, 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.159 because I think both of those makes most Both of 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:13.879 them makes sense for a lot of reasons. Right. If 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.960 you want to go on to the Panthers side of things, Um, 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.439 they're obviously interested. They were interested, as you said a 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:23.080 season ago. Geographically it makes sense for him there. He 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.800 played at Clemson. Um, so that's that's in the vicinity. 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.800 He's from Georgia, you know. And if you're him and 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.000 what's unfolded for the last couple of years, I mean, 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.440 I'm sure. Look he's he's loved. They're beloved, especially after 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.320 winning a national championship at Clemson. If you're him, you're like, 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.040 I need to start over. I need a fresh start, um, 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.960 going back to my roots. Like, maybe that's that's the solution. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.040 You look at the Saint side of things, I mean, 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.919 this is an organization that at points last year and 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.639 I did a couple of their games on Fox in 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.440 the NFL Fox broadcast, and their defense is really good. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.320 I mean, their defense can carry them in certain phases 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.560 and and they're missing that piece, right, which is what 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.640 the I'm not comparing him to Tom Brady, but had 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:06.760 a very good defense for a long time right, you're 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.120 just missing this piece. And and there's certainly talented players 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.520 on that Saints team that if they get the right guy, 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:16.200 right time, right fit, I think things change real quickly 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.919 in New Orleans. And to your point, you know this 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.239 division was wide open a second ago. It is not 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.400