Yahoo Sports’ Senior NFL Writer Charles Robinson and NFL Media’s Jim Trotter discuss the developing conspiracy theories and stories coming to light on the plan that never came to fruition with Tom Brady and Sean Payton joining the Miami Dolphins. Was there mutual tampering involved? Did the Brian Flores lawsuit end any chance of Brady and Payton ending up in Miami this season? Hear the full conversation on the You Pod to Win the Game podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen.
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CHARLES ROBINSON: The Miami, Tom Brady, Sean Payton. Back in then March, I had been hearing a lot of this stuff, right, about Miami and, like, what happened, why. You know, and I kept asking, like, what? Why did Brady un-retire? Like, what changed? Like, what was all this change?
And I had heard that, you know, hey, maybe pay a little closer attention to the Flores lawsuit and the stuff that’s come out about, like, maybe Tom was trying to get to Miami, and kind of process that. So, like, March 31, our podcast, I’m like, all right. Eric Edholm’s on. I’m like, let me give you the timeline.
So I go through this timeline, and I say, let’s just– I said, I’m not saying anything happened here. But I’m just saying, if you look at the pieces, the big thing that changed that no one really, at this point– at least then, on March 31– was pointing at and going, that nuked it, I said, it was the Flores lawsuit happened. And people just didn’t connect this idea that that could have turned a Tom Brady pursuit sideways.
What I think is interesting, though, now, is you’re hearing– there’s reports all over the place. Obviously, Ben Volin from “The Boston Globe” comes out, and he reports more detail. But now you’re starting to see it come out of South Florida that, oh, no, this totally was on the rails.
If there was an idea of backdooring Tom Brady into the franchise– oh, you’re gonna bring him in in an executive position, and then…