After his first year with the Buccaneers, Tom Brady made waves when he said of a team that wasn’t interested in him in 2020:Are you staying with that mutherf-ker?“
Brady’s recent broadcast about his free-agency process brings the focus of the MF comment back to a quarterback with the initials MT
Was Brady talking about former Bears top-two draft pick Mitch Trubisky?
At the time, Colin Cowherd said Brady was indeed referring to the Bears when he made the comment that sparked much speculation about whether he was talking about the 49ers and Jimmy Garoppolo, the Titans and Ryan Tannehillthe Raiders and Derek Carror someone else.
Brady shed some light on the three-year-old mystery during his first Fox game in Tampa, filling garbage time by showing and telling the old-fashioned handwritten notes from his decision-making process.
He said he had 18 criteria. While he may have been exaggerating with that number, he mentioned factors like “salary, weather, facilities, how great the players were.”
Brady then said the Bears were a potential destination.
“Chicago was a team – and I’ve never told that story before,” Brady said. ‘They are very discreet in their recruitment. I’ve seriously thought about it [them]. . . . They were really under the radar. And no one would have realized that. You know, freedom of choice is a tricky thing. Once you make the decision, you can’t look back and there’s no reason to ever tell anyone.”
But Brady did talk about what might have happened when he fired a Scud missile at a still-unnamed muthereffer a year later. The fact that he prefaced the profane comment by saying, “One of the teams wasn’t interested at the last minute” makes this out of step with Brady’s more recent comments, which characterized the Bears as a team that wanted him . Like a team that didn’t back down ‘at the very end’.
Regardless, the Bears stuck with it that Mitch Trubisky in 2020, adding Bradykiller Nick Foles to the roster. (By the way, Foles beat Brady on the night of 2020 when he forgot which down it was.) The still unanswered question is whether Brady was talking about Trubisky or someone else in 2021.
Maybe the next time a Brady game ends up in garbage time, Kevin Burkhardt will try to pry it out of him.
