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This one hits different.
Former teammates of Tom Brady — including Vince Wilfork, Tedy Bruschi, and especially Asante Samuel — are publicly taking aim at Brady, and D.A. says this is a huge deal.
The spark?
Brady’s diplomatic, broadcaster-friendly answer when asked if he has a rooting interest in the Super Bowl.
Samuel doesn’t buy it.
He flat-out accuses Brady of being selfish — claiming he doesn’t want anyone else to enjoy winning but himself.
Even if Brady is simply being objective in his new role, the fact that former teammates — from a dynasty locker room — are airing this out publicly is stunning.
D.A. picks through the rubble, asking the uncomfortable questions about legacy, ego, and whether the image of Brady as the ultimate teammate is finally cracking.
When the criticism comes from opponents, you shrug.
When it comes from the guys who won rings with you?
That’s different.
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Look, something is up. Tom Brady's
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former teammates are taking shots at him
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and it's not goodnaturedly. I never
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thought I'd see the day. Something is
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definitely up here. I'll tell you what I
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think it is coming up here in a moment.
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the off season. When Tom Brady said he
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doesn't have a dog in this fight and
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that he's not leading one way or the
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other, I think you could honestly take
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it as, hey, he's just being diplomatic
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because he's a broadcaster, because he's
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a Raiders executive, because he wants to
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fly in an air of the NFL and culture in
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general where nobody's ever mad at Tom
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Brady for an opinion. He likes it there.
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Okay, fine.
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But this is not that. This is not that
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because his former teammates are really
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fired up about it. Specifically, Asante
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Samuel. And when you hear and read
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Asante Samuel's subtext,
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it tells you why this is this is bigger
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than just, "Hey man, why are you not
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pulling for the Patriots?"
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Asante Samuel tweeted four different
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screeds about how upset he is that Brady
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didn't lean into the Patriots, but this
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is the one that matters. Quote, Brady,
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you can't be the only one winning Super
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Bowls.
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That one sticks.
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That one says a lot. Now, Asante says,
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"I'm highly disappointed in you. You're
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not rooting for your ex- teammate Mike
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Vrabel. I'm gonna fry your ass up.
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Brady, don't let me find out you're
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hating on Drake May. Not what I wanted
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to hear. Flaw ass. I'm going to go eight
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bleep about who you are. All that. When
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Asante Samuel says, "You can't be the
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only one winning Super Bowls,"
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it underscores why this is a real thing
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with Bruski and Will Fork, Asante Samuel
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speaking this kind of internal truth
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that we didn't know, that we couldn't
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know. And that is the sense that that
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Brady is not just being diplomatic.
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That Brady is not just wanting to be
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above the fray. That Brady's not just
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being objective because of his roles as
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a broadcaster, as a minority owner of
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the Raiders.
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It's that specifically Brady doesn't
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want
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the Patriots to win because he wants to
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be the guy that brought the glory to New
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England.
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And this this is a really big bomb to
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set off because
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Tom Brady's teammates have always spoken
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glowingly about him. There's never been
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a guy that's ever said a bad word.
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Every guy has gone overboard talking
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about what type of teammate Tom Brady
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is. And so, you know, they are not
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conditioned to talk junk about him. This
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isn't Michael Jordan and the rest of his
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Bulls teammates, specifically guys like
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Scottie Pippen, that hate his guts. I
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mean, Jordan clearly rubbed guys in that
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locker room the long the wrong way
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because of his ego or because of how
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hard he pushed them or whatever the case
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is. But, I mean, the fact that him and
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Scotty are like mortal enemies now says
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a lot, and we saw plenty of this in the
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last dance.
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What we didn't know was that there
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clearly is an undercurrent within the
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Patriots
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of Brady being a great teammate when
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they're winning.
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but a guy that always wants to make it
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about him being part of the winner and
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nobody else. And that's why Asante says
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you can't be the only one winning Super
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Bowls. That suggests you're petty,
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Tom. You're jealous, Tom. You can't root
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for anybody else. And Asante kind of
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doubles down on this when he says, "I'm
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highly disappointed you're not rooting
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for your ex- teammate
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because again, Tom Brady didn't say,
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"I'm rooting for the Seahawks." He just
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said, "I don't have a dog in the fight."
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Instead, Asant is interpreting that as
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you're not pulling for Rael because you
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need to make it about yourself. You
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don't want to see anybody else have
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success. You need it to be about you.
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And that I think informs why Vince
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Wilfork and Ted Teddy Bruski, two guys
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that have always defended Tom Brady
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would also
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be so upset here for Brussi to say,
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"Hey, everyone knows, don't even ask me
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my picks on on on NFL Live. They know
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I'm picking the Patriots." Well, okay,
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that doesn't have to be Tom Brady. That
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that could be equally as problematic if
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I can't ever trust your assessment or
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analysis of a Patriots game because you
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just automatically will pick the
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Patriots. That's not great either. So
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maybe Brady wants to be a deeper, you
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know, more respectable analyst when it
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comes to all teams. Okay. He's also
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again an adviser for a different
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franchise. Maybe he wants to exist in
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that plane where, you know, he's not all
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about one super fan of one team. Okay.
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But when Vince Wilfork
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also basically blasts him for not taking
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the Patriot side, it is he says it's
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political. He's straddling the fence.
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But is it that because if you just think
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he's straddling the fence for
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professional reasons, would you really
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be angry about that? I don't think so. I
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think you'd be like, "Yeah, you know, he
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can't say something, but we know how he
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feels." You wouldn't be angry at a guy
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if you knew how he feels, but he just
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can't say it, right?
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Those guys are going after him because
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they feel that he feels he doesn't want
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the Patriots to win.
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And if that's the case, if Tom Brady is
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so small that he looks at Drake May,
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who's like the all-American everything,
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marries his middle school sweetheart,
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has never said a bad word about anybody,
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a shucks as they come, great teammate,
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young kid, no ego, etc. If Brady looks
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at Drake May and says, "I don't want him
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to have what I've had." He looks at his
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former teammate Mike Vrabel and say, "I
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don't want him to have what what we
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did." or he looks at the team and say,
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"I don't want them to win after us,
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after me." That's crazy. And I never
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thought that of Tom Brady. I never would
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have thought. I would have absolutely
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assumed that if Brady said this, it was
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just to be diplomatic, but internally
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he'd be like, "Yeah, of course I'm
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pulling for Faves. Of course I want Mr.
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Craft to get another championship. Of
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course I want the Patriots to win." I
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would just assume behind the scenes that
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all those guys would know that's where
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his heart was. But what they're saying
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clearly is they don't trust that that's
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where his heart is. I mean, for Tom
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Brady to be the GOAT, undeniably the
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greatest quarterback of all time.
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Undeniably, you can't even argue this
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anymore. You can argue whether he's the
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greatest overall football player of all
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time. No matter what the Patriots did on
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Sunday, even had if if Drake May has a
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great game of the Patriots win, nobody
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would ever
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knock Brady down a peg for that. There's
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no dents in Brady's armor. He won there.
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He won in Tampa Bay. Every teammate
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spoken glowingly about him, whether he
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was a game manager in the first Super
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Bowl or the reason that they came back
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from 28-3 later on. I mean, he's no
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matter what, every level he checks the
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box of all-time great.
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It's wild to think he could be insecure
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or so egodriven
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that he would root against
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the Patriots to win a Super Bowl. And
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I'm not sure I even still believe that.
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But the fact that Asante Samuel tweeted
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all those things and the fact that
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Bruski and Vince Wilfork overwhelming
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Brady fans forever publicly would turn
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on him so viciously so quickly.
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Says something. It says something. It
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says they don't believe he's just being
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diplomatic.
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They believe it's it's something deeper.
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And that that is what is wild. Reminder,
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