Florio Brady BLAST Gives 2022 Insight

Florio putting Brady on blast for his (uninformed) criticism of Daniel Jones, but in tearing him up Florio talks about the way 2022 played out:

"It’s easy for Brady to say he would have handled the situation differently, because he was never put in that situation during his 20-plus year career. What would he have done if the Patriots or Buccaneers had benched him for business reasons, asked him to go home with pay, and then kept him from practicing when he said he wanted to stay?

Also, Brady left his New England teammates in free agency after the 2019 season. After the 2021 season, he retired. Roughly a month later, he came back. In the interim, an effort was undertaken to lure him to Dolphins; it has never been suggested that Brady wasn’t on board with the plan to pair him with Sean Payton in Miami, after Brady had essentially quit on the Buccaneers. Then, during 2022 training camp, Brady left the team for more than a week.

We’ll stipulate that Brady had good reasons for every single business decision he made. So would he have wanted Greg Olsen or Tony Romo or Cris Collinsworth or Troy Aikman or Kirk Herbstreit to make assumptions during massive broadcast windows about Brady’s motivations and his actions? Or would Brady have wanted them to make a phone call or two in search of, you know, facts?

For $37.5 million per year from Fox, Brady should be expected to spend a little time getting the player’s side of the story before casting aspersions before a crowd of 38.5 million."