Was Mitch Trubisky “that mutherf—ker” to whom Tom Brady referred in 2021?…see more

After his first year with the Buccaneers, Tom Brady made a stir when saying of a team that wasn’t interested in him in 2020, Brady’s recent on-air story about his free-agency process brings the focus of the M.F.

remark back to a quarterback with the initials M.T.Brady shed a little light on the three-year-old mystery during his first Fox game in Tampa, filling garbage time by show-and-telling the old-school handwritten notes from his decision-making process.

He said he had 18 criteria. While he might have been exaggerating with that number, he mentioned factors like “salary, weather, facilities, how great the players were.”

“Chicago was a team — and I’ve never told that story before,” Brady said. “They very stealth in their recruitment. I was seriously considering [them]. . . .

They were really under the radar. And nobody would have realized that. You know, free agency’s a tricky thing. Once you make the decision, there’s no looking back and there’s no reason to ever tell anybody that.”