Here’s something we’ve all been waiting for this NFL offseason: rumors about Tom Brady unretiring and possibly jumping back in to take one last run at an eighth Lombardi Trophy.
OK, maybe a lot of people haven’t been waiting for such rumors, but now some exist thanks to chatter Rich Eisen, the face of the NFL Network for many years, heard at the league’s scouting combine. On Monday, he took some time on his national radio show to drop some big things that he was told by more than one person at the combine—and those included some interesting nuggets about Brady.
Though he stressed these are just rumors and it’s something that might never happen, it’s still fun to think about.
The Brady chatter starts at the 6:30 mark of this video:
“This one just blew my mind: Tom Brady might not be done after all,” Eisen said. “A couple people were just like, ‘Hang on, just you wait.’ And I was like, ‘He’s Instagramming out pictures of his cat.’ But it doesn’t look like he’s getting big and fat, does it? And just let it play out and see who wants what.”
He also added one AFC team might be interested if this plays out.
“The one place that folks are saying to keep an eye out for is Miami,” Eisen said. “If the Dolphins, somehow or some way get a doctor’s report, a piece of information from a medical evaluation of Tua [Tagovailoa] that he may not be ready to go, and suddenly there’s Tom Brady sitting in Florida, where his family is located and where he can easily locate himself. Keep an eye on that, I was told by a couple birdies at the combine. How’s that for a top 5 list?”
Again, these are just rumors. But they are some pretty juicy rumors!
