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Brady's career.

From the Chris Wessling podcast studio,

it's the Around the NFL podcast.

I'm Dan Anzis,

joined by Greg Rosenthal and Gregi. Listen, not every week is going to be

filled with diamonds, okay? I wouldn't say it's filled with rocks either, week four Sunday.

There were some good moments, but what we really needed was a great Sunday night game and the drama of the Pats and Tom Brady and the reunion.

And it's that special, Greg, that we're actually going to start the show with the little Sunday night football today.

How about that?

It is not every week, but it's not every week that the greatest quarterback of all time returns to his home.

And yeah, you got to give them the respect. And they showed up in a game in a week where I think there was like five, six, seven, like great looking matchups and hipster duffices like me were kind of like, oh, Buck's Patriots. It's not even like one of the better games of the week. Actually, it ended up being way better than all of those games. Right. You could kind of get bored of the buildup to a game like this and the way NBC was putting

all their professional might behind and promotional might behind making this thing as big

as possible.

It worked.

And getting all these actors, I think, from New England, various people to be part of their

campaign.

But at the end of the day, the teams needed to play the game.

And the game was a good one.

So before we get to all the Sunday week four action, let us start with the last game.

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