Tom Brady unretires, Cowboys trade Amari Cooper to the Browns, Deshaun Watson news, Kirk Cousins & more
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🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Tom Brady blew up the internet Sunday afternoon as he officially came out of retirement to re-join the Bucs for his 23rd NFL season. What ripple effect will this have on the Buccaneers and the rest of the NFC? Robert Mays and Lindsay Jones react to the news and break down both sides of the Amari Cooper trade for the Cowboys and Browns, Deshaun Watson news that broke over the weekend, the Vikings and Kirk Cousins and more ahead of the OFFICIAL start of 2022 NFL free agency.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.8 | Today's Sunday, March 13th. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:20.7 | Joining me tonight. It's my good friend, Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, March 13th. I'm Robert Mays. Joining me tonight. |
| 0:22.0 | It's my good friend, Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how you doing? I'm great. Just another slow news day |
| 0:27.1 | in the NFL. Let's go. So I joke this morning. Just one day. We need to talk about Kevin |
| 0:34.8 | meme. Just be normal. Just be normal sauce for one day, guys. |
| 0:38.1 | No shot. No shot. I wanted to take my dog for a walk. We did go for a walk. One of my friends lives five doors down for me. We walked a few miles, him and his wife and their baby. And we walked all the, like several miles, went to the record store, had a really nice afternoon. I was out like a little bit late last night. |
| 0:34.6 | We went to a concert. |
| 0:36.1 | And I was like, you know, I'm taking a nap. Take a little bit of a nap, wake up and do everything else tonight. And my fiance wakes me up from a sound sleep. She's like, Tom Brady is coming back. Tom Brady. I retired. And I was so disoriented. And I had no idea if this was real. |
| 1:11.8 | If this was a dream, similar to the one I had last night about Matt Ryan getting traded |
| 1:15.8 | at the Titans because my brain is just fried to a crisp at this point. It seems very real. |
| 1:21.3 | Tom Brady from his personal Twitter account tweeted out that he's coming back. And I'm so many reactions. The fact that the moment I |
| 1:32.3 | saw his reaction to Christiana Ronaldo asking him yesterday at that game, are you done? And him |
| 1:38.4 | giving him that shrug. It's like, all right, this is probably only a matter of time. And it took |
| 1:42.1 | about 12 hours. Yeah. Well, he's left this door open basically the entire time, right? |
| 1:47.5 | I mean, he wanted to shoot down the reports when he, when it first was reported by Adam |
| 1:53.5 | Schaefter and Jeff Darlington that he was playing to retire. |
| 1:56.3 | You know, he kind of pushed back on that right away. |
| 1:59.0 | And his own podcast with Jim Gray, he kind of left it |
| 2:02.6 | open a little bit when we were in Indianapolis last week. One of the top, the biggest topics was, |
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