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Scheduled day off. He'll be back tomorrow. Marshall Hook, filling in in our update studios, resetting our top stories, as we like to say. The counteroffensive by the New England Patriots is on, folks. It's on the Brady Watch. Week to go. Eight days until his contract expires, six days until the legal tampering period. And it's getting good. It's getting a little nasty. It's getting a little back and forth. It's getting a little personal. And that's good, well, that's good for us. Anyway, I didn't think it would get to this spot. I really didn't. I mean, not that I, well, my original thought was I was going to retire.

But I didn't think it would, boy, did you ever think it'd get down to this?

No.

We're a week to go and they're sniffing at each other through media members on ESPN.

No, because it's because of all he's done and how everything he's accomplished over these last 20 years, I thought it would be a little. I didn't think it would get dirty. Yeah, me neither. That's what I'm saying. I didn't think that they would make Brady kind of look like the bad guy. And that's how this is starting to look here over the last 24 or 48 hours. So the field Yates thing is, you know, was one of them, you know, that never ends well.

The tweet yesterday, yeah, I guess right.

All these people who, oh, it never ends well, ever.

Nothing ends well. I thought this might be the one because they've defied everything. Like they've, you know, they've just. Because if Bill's done and the crafts know that, Robert Kraft knows that, then the classy thing to do here, it's good for the, it would

be tough for people who accept immediately, but the classier thing to do, it would be better in the long term to just say, hey, you know what, he's not in our long term plans, at least in the next few years. We need to move on. He's a free agent. There are going to be suitors for him. we wish him the best or something along those lines instead it's yeah now they're kind of

dragging his name through a mud a little bit, and it started to get ugly. There's a back and forth. It started with the field Yates tweet yesterday. And, you know, never mind the fact that Belichick basically told Brady, no, no, you have to start. We've already offered you a contract last August.

The one that Brady told him to go screw over.

I said, no, no, we did that last August.

Never mind that that's actually what the phone call was.

But the reporting of it from Field Yates, and again, I just, I missed this yesterday.

I already didn't put enough attention into it.

That they just sort of twist what happened in that negotiation last year.

Fieldgate started off that series of tweets by saying during last training camp, Brady and

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