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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Pick Who Became Tom Brady: An NFL Secret, Finally Revealed

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.631.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

You may think you know how the Patriots drafted the greatest quarterback of all time: with the 199th pick in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. But the real story — the story of exactly how the Patriots got to make that pick, in the first place — has never been made public… until now. Today, Pablo dives into the secret world of the NFL’s compensatory formula. And we unmask the identity of the free agent who flapped his wings, changing sports history forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.0

I think this is a systipiscium task. There will be no one who will divulge the information for you and you'll wander the earth forever trying to figure this out.

0:14.0

Right after this ad.

0:17.0

You're listening to Draft Kings Network. There are some origin stories that are so familiar by now to us that they just kind of hang in our brains like these old paintings, these artifacts almost that we see all of the time in documentaries

0:45.8

and speeches in books and broadcasts that we don't even really stop to look at

0:50.8

them anymore. And so today's episode is going to be about the most

0:54.9

famous origin story and the most famous draft pick in the history of the biggest

1:00.5

sport in America because it turns out that something important, someone

1:06.2

important, has been missing from this picture for 25 years. This skinny beanpole of a young man walked over to me and said,

1:18.0

hi Mr. Kraft, I want to introduce myself.

1:21.0

I'm Tom Brady. I say, I know who you are. You're our six-round

1:25.8

draft choice and I always remember he looked me like a laser eye to eye and he said it's right and I'm the best decision this

1:36.3

organization has ever made. I am the best decision this

1:43.0

decision this organization has ever made.

1:45.0

I mean are you joking me?

1:48.0

You're the hundred and ninety-ninth pick in the draft?

1:52.0

The six round, and I always joke when they called me, they said, Tom, you know,

1:58.0

Hey Thomas, you know, Bill Bellachik, we're, you know, picking a 6th round, like like we'll see a Monday like get

2:04.0

d'sk and ready to go.

2:07.2

And to be clear taking Tom Brady with pick number 199 of the 2000 NFL draft, that turned out to be more than simply the best

2:16.4

decision the New England Patriots ever made.

2:19.4

It was the biggest decision, the biggest domino, that I believe changed the NFL's timeline entirely.

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