These guys know how to connect with you about Boston sports.

Say that more slowly because I'm stupid.

Pelgar and Mares on 985.

The Sports Hub.

I plead the fifth.

Oh, that's funny, Tom.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, that's funny, yeah.

Oh, you dink, you total dink. If he wanted this to be a real hard-hitting interview, which Jim Gray obviously doesn't, because he's part of the Illuminati or whatever the hell it is. Well, there's something weird with him, man. This is now like Tom's personal question asker. But if Brady is going to be this open and say stuff like this, which I think is telling. We can agree on that, right? An easy follow-up is, well, Tom, who do you think is more important to the team? You or Bill? You're not going to get an answer, but that's the follow-up question. Tom, now that you say this, after 18 years, who is more important to the Patriots franchise do you or go plead the fifth

oh tom you're such a cut up so i mean didn't you pull a piece of sound that sort of addresses

that a little yeah yeah again jimmy you know the one i'm talking about the shorter version of

brady gray number nine i just think these are you know he was asked about the whole operation and, you know, he was asked about Belichick, but he moved into a more philosophical answer about the whole operation. Go ahead, Jimmy. You know, I'm sitting in there. I don't want to coach. I just want to play. You know, and you need the coaches to do their job. They need the coaches to do their best. That's what you expect. That's what you

want. They want me to do my best. I want them to do their best. I can't do their job. They can't do mine. And it all works. It all comes together. And it's a hard, it's a hard journey over the course of the season. But it's incredibly fulfilling. I wouldn't be continuing to do it. I wouldn't be continuing to want to play.

So, you know, he's an incredible coach, he's been an incredible mentor for me, he's taught me so much football. Like I said, be a 22-year-old kid and to come and learn from him, I mean, I wouldn't be sitting here without, you know, his coaching. I wouldn't have the success without how incredibly talented he was along with

a lot of the other coaches a lot of the other players a lot of the other people in the organization

because it takes everybody to do it everybody see that that whole that's i think the first part

is telling mass but get go but just the the whole idea that he puts himself on the same level

absolutely as the coaching staff.

Like, you know.

He should. You can't do my job. I can't do yours. It takes all of us. Like, you know, we're peers. He's not talking like a player to the coaching staff. Bingo. So like they all have an equal seat at the table. We're peers. Oh, I think it's also telling that he's talking about Belichick in a past tense.

Towards the end of that that he's using talking about Belichick in a past tense.

Towards the end of that, he's using past tense and that, you know, I needed him at that, you know, paraphrasing here, but listen to that, he's using past tense there. So I don't need you anymore is when I hear that. Bill, I don't need you anymore. Stay out of my here. My way works. Working with my trainer

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