Jeff Howe Talks Brady, Gronk, and Patriots OTAs
Toucher & Hardy
Beasley Media Group
4.3 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Howe of The Athletic talked all things Patriots with T&R as Organized Team Activities are getting underway in Foxboro. Despite the Patriots fanbase being sick of the off-field drama, Tom Brady's absence from OTAs remains something Jeff and others need to report on. Did Seth Wickersham's ESPN story "reignite" the problems that may have been overblown to that point? And what, exactly, do Brady and Rob Gronkowski want in all of this?
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| 0:00.0 | You get to experience it for breakfast. |
| 0:02.7 | He's like, hello! |
| 0:04.0 | The Toucher and Rich show on 985, the sports hot. |
| 0:07.6 | Tom Brady has not shown up for these OTAs. |
| 0:10.5 | He hasn't missed this particular batch of OTAs before. |
| 0:14.6 | He, it seems like his level of satisfaction with the team in the organization is not where it used to be. Jeff, how, hello. |
| 0:24.0 | What's up? |
| 0:24.9 | Hello. |
| 0:25.8 | What's up? |
| 0:26.7 | So what do you make of this whole Brady situation? |
| 0:30.1 | Well, it's obviously unique, and something's up, and we still don't know the exact. |
| 0:37.3 | I mean, he hasn't come out and said outwardly exactly why he hasn't. something's up and we still don't know the exact. |
| 0:43.1 | I mean, he hasn't come out and said outwardly exactly why he hasn't participated in this offseason. |
| 0:44.0 | I mean, there's been clues that he's left along the way. |
| 0:47.1 | Some of it could be financial where, I mean, I think he wants the team to come forward |
| 0:53.0 | and make the first move with contract negotiations, give him a new deal. |
| 0:57.5 | Whereas, you know, Robert Kraft told me last month, if it becomes an issue, then they'll resolve it. |
| 1:03.6 | So I think that could be the Patriots way of saying that they want Brady to make the first move if he wants a new deal. |
| 1:08.9 | So I don't know why there'd be a stand still there. |
| 1:11.6 | I mean, it seems like something that would be easy to resolve considering their history with |
| 1:15.7 | that. |
| 1:16.0 | And then you look at the other side, the obvious storyline and the elephant that has been in |
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