Tom Brady to the Jets? What Ty Legislation, Stephen A. Smith stated about nightmare state of affairs for Patriots

It was all however inevitable, wasn’t it?

As quickly as Aaron Rodgers was loaded onto a cart within the first quarter of Monday’s Jets-Payments sport, hypothesis began to unfold about New York inserting a name to a sure ageless sign caller presently in retirement.

These whispers grew louder on Tuesday, particularly after the Jets confirmed that Rodgers was dominated out for the rest of the 2023 season as a result of a torn Achilles tendon. 

With Zach Wilson standing as New York’s subsequent possibility below heart, it looks like a provided that the Jets will peruse the QB market to assist bolster a gifted roster.

Former Jets basic supervisor Mike Tannenbaum took to X — formally often called Twitter — on Tuesday morning to map out his former group’s contingency plans.

Main the way in which had been trades for veteran QBs like Matt Stafford and Jameis Winston, together with bringing in Colt McCoy and Matt Ryan for physicals. The third possibility, which Tannenbaum tabbed as “unlikely”, concerned giving a name to Tom Brady to see if he has the itch to play as soon as once more.

As surprising as it could be for Brady to go well with up for Gang Inexperienced this fall, Brady’s noncommittal historical past with retirement — coupled together with his potential impression on a Jets roster already stacked with a stout protection and receiving choices like Garrett Wilson — does carve out some validity to a seemingly unbelievable state of affairs.

Talking on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Present” Tuesday morning, Patriots legend Ty Legislation didn’t put a lot inventory right into a state of affairs the place Brady calls off retirement for a second time … particularly to hitch one in all New England’s most reviled foes. 

“Completely not,” the Corridor of Famer stated of his former teammate becoming a member of the Jets. “And I do know Tom, he retains himself in nice form. They’ve received one thing on the market known as the TB12 technique. He’s not coming again to play soccer and I don’t suppose that he’ll go to the Jets.”

Legislation is much from the one media character to shortly strike down the notion of Brady placing on the soccer pads as soon as once more.

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith rolled by a listing of explanation why a return to the gridiron shouldn’t be within the playing cards for Brady, particularly with a group just like the Jets.

“He’s a seven-time champion. After all, you make that decision [if you’re the Jets],” Smith stated on ESPN’s “First Take”. “However right here’s the place I disagree. Primary, what you simply highlighted, all of the intricacies … new system, new gamers, unfamiliar. It’s not such as you can be going to Josh McDaniels, who as soon as coached you. It’s not such as you can be going to Invoice O’Brien, who as soon as coached you. You’re going to a wholly new scenario. And by the way in which, [Jets OC] Nathaniel Hackett is there … That ain’t working. Simply cancel that, OK? So, we get that out of the way in which.

“Quantity two, the stationary goal that I identified. Quantity three, you haven’t been figuring out and getting your self conditioned for an NFL season since you retired formally and also you had been trying to enter the sales space after taking a 12 months off, all of this different stuff. That’s quantity three. And quantity 4, the extent of competitors within the AFC. You had been in Tampa final 12 months within the NFC. Now, you’ll be towards Buffalo, towards Miami, towards Cincinnati, towards Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Kansas Metropolis, Jacksonville, Los Angeles Chargers.

“I’m sorry. If I’m Tom Brady, hell no. I’m not placing myself in that place. I’m messing with my model.”

After all, Brady himself additionally harassed as soon as once more throughout Monday’s episode of his “Let’s Go!” podcast that he isn’t feeling the itch to play anymore after calling it quits (for a second time) in February.

“I feel the recommendation I gave completely different guys is that if they’re trying of their profession — and I instructed this to a good friend final night time — ‘simply be sure you depart all of it on the market,’” Brady stated. “Since you simply by no means wish to have one drop left and suppose, ‘Ah, everybody’s on the market enjoying, and I’m sitting up right here, and I nonetheless really feel like I may do it.’ I don’t really feel like that. I really feel like I’m simply tremendous content material with my choice and the place I’m at in life.”

Whether or not it’s his numerous post-retirement ventures — together with a stake within the Las Vegas Raiders and a profitable broadcasting profession at FOX — or the optics of becoming a member of a group just like the Jets, don’t count on Brady to show heel simply days after declaring himself as a “Patriot for all times.”