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Okay, we are starting this week with football ESPN Seth Wickers should release an article yesterday which detailed tension between Tom Brady and Bill Bellachack.

On the Bill Simmons podcast this week, Bill and Mike Princess said discuss the news.

The part I didn't understand in which makes no sense to anything that has happened in the last 17 years is if Kraft told Bellachack to trade Jimmy G, which is what this story basically says.

That doesn't fly with anything that's happened in the entire time I've been following the Bellachack Patriots Kraft has never told Bellachack what to do. Do you believe that part of the story.

I find it hard to believe I do know that something happened here because they love to grow up below everything we heard was how much they love to grow up.

They had found their future and you knew that Tom thought he would play forever. Tom not only thinks he's going to live forever, Tom thinks he's going to play forever, which is something that Bellachack always thought quarterbacks don't live past 40, which is the conventional wisdom in the NFL.

It's always been the conventional wisdom and he hasn't played great this year. You know what? It's an amazing thing. He's done enough in this very weird NFL season to be voted the MVP.

That's beyond the stretch. He has not been great. You know, he he's done enough to win these games, but he has not been pretty like in a lot of these games.

I agree. And he has shown his age in some of these games. He really has, especially whenever anybody has put any pressure on him.

But that's what you would expect from a quarterback his age. You would expect the things you're seeing.

The thing that is so is so intriguing here is what you said is that would craft imposes will for Tom with Tom go to craft. Yes.

But craft imposes will on Bellachack or with their other things that work here like Bellachack moving on or something like that.

Well, I have to wait and see because it's it got very weird. I don't believe that's hard to believe. Also hard to believe if they ever offered him the amount of money that has been quoted in the story.

A backup getting that because that would have signal to Tom that he's the future, which would have driven Tom crazy.

All the stuff about Tom and Garoppolo is predictable just like it was with Montana and the Vion.

These guys don't want to see or help their next guy when they saw the real guy show up when young showed up Montana knew what it was.

When Garoppolo showed up, Brady knew what it was. He knew here's the guy. Here's the guy that can replace me.

And that's what caused the tensions. Forget the train of the train of the train of the train of the quote.

A godfather seen the train. There is smoke the payers. Okay. The real crux of the matter is here is that Brady finally saw his replacement in flesh and bone.

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