Can you expect him to come back when it's the day when he's supposed to return?

We'll see. We'll talk about it next week.

I'm not concerned about it right now. We're trying to practice against Tennessee and play a game.

I said sometime after Tennessee, there's no definitive date for me, but we'll check on it.

We'll keep in touch and we'll find out.

Oh, Todd Balls with a little tell there, little stress.

We'll check on it next week.

The touching of the face while delivering the information, the time on it's psychological

and physiological reaction to stress.

Look, I feel bad for Todd Balls.

I do. He's the one who's out front and center dealing with these questions about Tom Brady.

But this idea that Tom Brady has been gone for eight days now on a pre-planned training campaign.

It's unprecedented, and that's fine.

Everything about Tom Brady at this point is unprecedented.

45-year-old starting quarterback, who had over 5,000 passing yards last year,

still at the height of his overall powers, somehow still going.

A family that is maturing in aging to the point where he's got a kid in high school for crying out loud.

We've never seen this. No one's ever had to deal with it.

But we've definitely never seen somebody just say during training camp, I'm gone.

It's all pre-planned. I'm trying to understand how the conversation went.

Hey guys, I need to leave on August the 11th.

I need to leave on the 11th.

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