The Pick Who Became Tom Brady: An NFL Secret, Finally Revealed
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 46 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.
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| 0:32.6 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.7 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:38.8 | I think this is a sophistication task. There will be no one who will devote the information for you |
| 0:43.4 | and you'll wander the earth forever, trying to figure this out. Right after this ad. |
| 0:49.7 | You're listening to Draft King's Network. |
| 1:12.5 | 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 and speeches, |
| 1:19.2 | in books and broadcasts that we don't even really stop to look at them anymore. |
| 1:24.7 | And so today's episode is going to be about the most famous origin story and the most |
| 1:30.0 | famous draft pick in the history of the biggest sport in America. Because it turns out that |
| 1:36.1 | something important, someone important, has been missing from this picture for 25 years. |
| 1:46.4 | This skinny beanpole of a young man walked over to me and said, |
| 1:50.4 | Hi, Mr. Kraft. I want to introduce myself. I'm Tom Brady. I said, I know who you are. |
| 1:56.4 | You're our six-round draft choice. And I always remember he looked me like a laser eye-to-eye. |
| 2:04.7 | And he said, it's right. |
| 2:06.7 | And I'm the best decision this organization has ever made. |
| 2:10.9 | I am the best decision this organization has ever made. |
| 2:17.7 | I mean, are you joking me? |
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