The Sports Reporters - Episode 263 - Brady leaving New England. NFL Free Agency Whip-Around. NBA Covid-19 Testing

The Sports Reporters

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Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Tom Brady announces his free agency and it looks like he's heading south to Tampa Bay?! Was there a strong market out there for him? And can he still lead a team to a Super Bowl? Where does this leave New England? And what are Chicago and Houston doing with some of their moves? Plus, we all love winners and Bill Russell is atop most lists as the best "winner"... but who is second in that debate? Brady, Jordan, DiMaggio? And how are NBA teams gaining access to the coronavirus testing before the general public?

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0:00.0	Award-winning journalists, New York Times bestsellers.
0:04.9	No topic out of bounds.
0:06.6	No opinions left unsaid.
0:08.6	An institution for sports talk and information.
0:11.9	This is the sports reporters.
0:14.0	Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan.
0:16.5	I'm Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News and MLB.com.
0:19.9	I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.
0:22.3	And I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.
0:24.9	We welcome you to the Thursday edition of the Sports Reporter's podcast,
0:29.0	the reincarnation of our long-running television acquaintance and partnership.
0:34.8	And for a world in which there's nothing actually tangibly happening,
0:39.3	there's a lot actually happening in theory. And I want to start off by saying that here's what
0:45.4	it's like in Boston, Massachusetts right now. There's got to be a morning after. Oh, God, I hate
0:51.9	when he sings. I always hated when he sings. It's finally happened, gentlemen. Tom Brady, after 20 Oh, God, I don't know. I hate when he sings. I always hated when he sings.
0:54.5	It's finally happened, gentlemen.
0:56.0	Tom Brady, after 20 years, has depotted, apparently to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
1:02.2	The contract language we are told is being worked out.
1:05.1	It will be the Buccaneers, and people here are either in their withdrawal.
1:09.6	And I would say this, guys, I'll open the discussion saying this.
1:12.7	If someone had been paying attention to the indicators, he or she should not be shocked.
1:20.7	They can be disappointed, yes, but they cannot be shocked that Tom Brady has elected to go this route.
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