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earlier in the day late afternoon 4:25 p.m. Eastern it was the Tom Brady show guest starring the Cowboys in the Browns I mean that's how it was sold I I don't care get mad at me I don't care it was too much it really was too much when they it was embarrassing when they put they set him up to fail yeah Dak Prescott is on one side for the Cowboys and it's Tom Brady and the Browns are a playoff team with the defensive player of the year on their team let alone Deshawn Watson and we'll talk about him in a minute but there's certainly enough players that they get to put on the graphic there with Dak Prescott on Cleveland to do that but they made it yeah they made it all about Brady did anyone watch that game yesterday who wouldn't have watched that game if you and I were calling it I would submit to you that not a single extra person watched that game yesterday it's still the Cowboys and the Browns week one nobody's saying I have to go hear Tom Brady nobody is I disagree with you I think there's some people out there that probably went man I want to watch Denver Seattle and I'm but I want to hear Brady do you think a Broncos or Seahawks fan is going to say I'd rather hear Tom Brady than watch myor cuz yesterday was I mean come on Broncos Seahawks only Broncos Seahawks and fans are watching that game soft Broncos or like one that's not totally invested like the ones that like yeah I like the BR I see curiosity curiosity just to see right how does he sound yes does he have a malifu voice or is a little squeaky all the time he got a lot of squeak speaking complete sentences or are there stops and starts all the time and look I just think that the way this was handled it creates natural human resentment and irritation like God has come down from heaven to call football games let's start with a lower bar he came into the NFL as a sixth round pick he was on not even on the bench nobody knew who he was for a year and opportunity arose and he proved himself they have made this into and I guess you have to if you're paying him 37.5 million a year but you're doing him no favors you're doing him no favors cuz I'll submit to you he's getting 37 million a Year's that's true but he it's not like he needs it but I'll submit to you not a single person watched it who wouldn't have watched it there was plenty of criticism as expected and you wonder if they'll get to be a point where someone who otherwise would have watched a Brady game doesn't want to watch a Brady game well what one thing it does is if you have a TV with four boxes I think you'll be more intent to or more inclined to maybe listen to that one at least with him like until You' had enough and you're done and our viewing room he dominated it cuz we wanted to hear what he did it was Tom Brady we wanted to see how it was and all that and the reactions and everything so uh either way that was part of the show and it's you know it's it's fitting that it was the Cowboys and them as well because the Cowboys are always kind of their own show to begin with as well one of the reasons I'm being so blunt about it is I'm not that he's going to be aware of anything that we say but I'm trying TR Jar's the weak link mcvey's modulation an issue Bray's a squeaky voice I mean damn it's Monday doomsday already we haven't been together in and this is we're just going to start like this well you know I got to get it all in in one day cuz somebody ditched me okay for two days a week so I got to get it all out when I have you for two hours so sorry London so anyway then watch that'll make it through like the whoever's there watching soccer smoking a cigarette with a he's not even going to press the button Nigel is going to miss the button all so anyway I'm trying to go Tom Brady into being what he wants to be I watched the interview during the Texas M Michigan debacle on Saturday and you can see and we've both been doing broadcasting long enough not that the experience has actually made a difference but I can see when someone's wheels are turning and they're searching for words he had these long pauses and I think he's filtering every thought he has through this can I say it no I can't I need to say something more politically acceptable when they asked him about Deshawn Watson for example it was this vanilla cliche instead of hey Deshawn this is the Year this is the year Deshawn you've got to earn that contract you've got to prove the Brown's right for the investment they made and not only 46 million a year on a 5year fully guaranteed contract but three first round picks that could have been lowcost integral key players on the rock roster a roster that already pretty damn good and three other draft picks that were given up you have to do it now or that's it it's done this is it if you don't rewind the clock to 2020 the the clock is going to just fall apart it's done and I know he wanted to say it sure and I don't want to listen to Tom Brady not being Tom Brady I and I'm trying to DARE him and go him into saying screw all that I'm going to say what I believe and if somebody doesn't like it that's their problem made a career out of that Tom and I know that it makes your life a little more difficult you get phone calls from 345 Park Avenue and you get in trouble with the boss and but you're serving the audience and it's a disservice to the audience to sit there and give us a bunch of cliches and not say what you think well he's going to teach us the game that's one great thing he's going to be able to do and maybe he'll get into that if there's a Tom Brady is an awesome guy he really is he there's no doubt about that you know well you know I think he took the air out of the football DM he did not send me a de but either way right I do think if there's a flaw with him is that he wants everybody to like him right and then there is and that that is at some point going to have to you know stop a little bit to make some points like you said that are very real that that's that's the biggest thing life is easier when you want everybody to hate you then you can just then you can just be your not that you want everybody to be you just don't care and I'm just going to be who I am because that's how you serve an audience in a medium like this people don't like you anyway so you hopefully he'll learn because they can sense phony above all else and you can like me or hate me you can agree or disagree with what I say but I'm never going to be anything other than who I am when I sit in this chair when I'm talking on the phone with a radio host when I'm doing a podcast I'm not going to sugarcoat it I'm not going to be pretend to be anything other than I'm not and I think the audience appreciates authenticity and they can detect a mile away and phony and fake a mile away it's not phony and fake though I don't want to say that is phon and I think it's more it's not what he truly believes I think it's more just like he's trying to be a polite gentleman he wants to say that guy sucks and here's why he sucks may may maybe and maybe he'll get there let's give him let's like we talked about with week one with the team work into it a little dropping the breads you here we are it is 7:30 and you have on everybody in the NFL so far not everybody we haven't gotten them all to them all yet getting them getting there you're getting there oh me gosh hi it's Mike Florio thanks for watching PFT on YouTube hit subscribe for the latest news and Analysis from pro football talk