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The Adam Schefter Podcast

It All Connects Back to Tom Brady

The Adam Schefter Podcast

ESPN

Sports

4.4753 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Adam starts off this episode with a lookahead to Week 11 and how the week starts and ends with Tom Brady. After that, Gotham Chopra, director of the new docuseries "Man In the Arena: Tom Brady", joins the show to detail his time with Tom and what listeners can expect from this series. Then, Mike Forde of Sportsology, joins us to talk about how he assists teams around the world in restructuring and new hires as we approach the coaching carousel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another Adam Schaefter podcast. And on this week's podcast, we will be joined by Gotham Chopra, the man that directed the new ESPN Plus docu series, Man in the Arena, Tom Brady.

0:23.8

It's a series that features Brady and other notable figures

0:26.9

deconstructing the milestones of Tom Brady's legendary career.

0:32.9

And then we'll be joined by Mike Ford of Sportsology,

0:36.3

a U.S. and European-based company that assist

0:39.6

sports owners build and reconstruct their teams as the NFL teams will be doing some of those

0:47.1

same things here over the course of the next couple of months. And of course, we will look

0:52.8

ahead to week 11, which culminates on Monday

0:56.2

night football with Tom Brady struggling along right now going up against the New York Giants.

1:03.2

And it's interesting how all things come back to Tom Brady here because the week starts

1:07.4

with the man that essentially is trying to succeed Tom Brady in New England,

1:12.7

Mack Jones. And it's interesting that Mack Jones has begun to take the steps needed

1:17.2

to look like so far the most impressive rookie quarterback of the five rookie

1:22.2

quarterbacks taken in the first round of the draft. It doesn't mean he will be the best

1:26.0

quarterback of the group, but to date, he has probably been the best quarterback so far.

1:31.2

And the Patriots are rolling along.

1:32.7

And isn't it interesting that they had the foresight and the vision, not surprisingly,

1:37.5

to move on from Cam Newton before the season began, to clear all decks,

1:42.3

to essentially hand the job to Mac Jones and say,

1:46.1

you are our quarterback, you are our guy to lead us forward. And that has begun to pay

1:51.7

dividends. We'll see whether that pays off on Thursday night against Atlanta as the Patriots

1:56.8

kickoff week 11 in Atlanta. But Mack Jones so far has looked like the goods.

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