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And I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

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And gentlemen, there was no doubt, which was the number one sports topic in America this week,

which has been ever since the NFL schedule came out, and everybody circled October

3rd, the return of Tom Brady and to Foxborough. And just when you said, well, how much more

can we say about this? What's new about this? We get a little twist of the currency in the form

of a book that has caused some stir. Everybody's a buzz in Boston.

Seth Wicker's Shame of ESPN has written a book, and it is going to be out in the 12th of this month.

But in it, there are some interesting revelations, if you will, and it caused some, you know, in which, you know, this Beatty Belichick thing has been explored very deeply.

So that's what's going on here.

And Bill Belichick, by the way, when asked about his reaction to some of the allegations in the book,

actually started off in good humor. That's rare well let me let me throw the question at both of you guys who if if either do you think gets

the advantage going in to play this game the quarterback who knows how his coach thinks or the

coach who knows how his quarterback thinks the quarterback who has a much better team than the coach's new team.

That's what I'm...

No, Mitch, I swear to God, I've been thinking about this.

All of this drama that Bob has talked about, and there is always drama around this

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