Earlier this week, legendary quarterback Tom Brady made some surprising comments when speaking at a conference in Miami, declining to directly deny that he would be interested in coming out of retirement to play for the Miami Dolphins.
If Tom Brady actually were to come out of retirement to play for the Dolphins, it would obviously mean taking the starting quarterback job from Tua Tagovailoa. And as Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk points out, that sort of talk is extremely disrespectful to Tagovailoa.
“As I told Joe Rose yesterday morning on WQAM in Miami, it’s disrespectful to Tua for Brady to talk about Tua’s job so nonchalantly. It’s especially disrespectful for Brady to do it given the history,” Florio wrote on Saturday. “Throughout 2021 (until the trade deadline came and went), Tua had to deal with the possibility of the Dolphins trading for Deshaun Watson. As one source explained it not long after the 2021 season ended, former Dolphins coach Brian Flores was ‘fixated’ on getting Watson.
“Also after the 2021 season, it became obvious that Brady wanted to become the Miami quarterback for 2022, a process of tampering that culminated in the Dolphins not having a first-round pick in five days, when the 2023 draft commences.”
Whether Brady intended it or not, his comments were disrespectful to Tagovailoa.
