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Bruce Arians keeps protesting too much.
Clearly hurt by the current perception that Tom BradyArians’ return after a 40-day retirement was conditional on Arians being pushed to the curb 17 days later, Arians huffing and puffing some more on Sunday night regarding his good friend Tommy.
Speaking at the Arians Family Foundation gala (my invitation must have been lost in the mail), Arians addressed her relationship with Brady by noting that Brady will give Arians an expensive piece of jewelry.
“It’s a $50,000 watchArians said, via Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times. He says he will bring it to me. Who does that if we hate each other? As soon as I get back to town, we’ll play golf.
No one ever said they hate each other. The question is whether Brady could continue to work with Arians. As we have said over and over again, it is possible for people to have a good personal relationship and at the same time not be able to get along professionally.
“It’s never going to go away, no matter what anyone else says,” Arians said. “It’s a national narrative that they think they know, but they don’t.”
If it’s never going to go away, why do you keep trying to persuade people who will never be convinced that there wasn’t a Code Red of some sort ordered or subtly requested by Brady? Common sense continues to point to the reality that Brady, if pushed hard enough by Tom Cruise, would eventually yell, “You are absolutely right, I did!”
Arians’ latest attempt to shout down skeptics comes after a recent failure by now-former Buccaneers assistant coach AQ Shipley to deny that he was one of the sources for his good friend Rich Ohrnberger’s claim that Brady and Arians were no longer seeing each other. eye to eye, because the semi-retired Arians was toying too much with the work being done by Brady and offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich. Via JoeBucsFan.com, Pat McAfee jokingly asked Shipley if he was one of the sources for his close friend Ohrnberger, and Shipley cleverly avoided answering the question..
As JoeBucsFan.com points out, and not previously realized, Shipley decided to step aside after a year of working as an assistant coach with the Buccaneers. That makes it even more likely that he told Orhnberger about the friction between Brady and Arians. There are no consequences of any kind for Shipley if Arians believes that Shipley said something that he should not have said to Ohrnberger.
At the very least, it would have been beyond irresponsible for Ohrnberger not to pass the report on to his good friend Shipley before making it public. The exchange could have been as simple as this: “This is what I am going to say. Tell me if I’m wrong.
Or, quite possibly, Ohrnberger got it all from Shipley. Once again, the fact that Shipley no longer works there makes it that much more likely that he will come clean.
And please spare us the idea that guessing sources is taboo. We just want to know if the information is correct. In this case, the Ohrnberger-Shipley connection makes it much more likely that the information is accurate. Throw in Shipley’s decision to pass up a golden opportunity to shout “fake news,” and the fair conclusion remains that, $50,000 gold watch or not, there’s something to the idea that the time had come for Arians and Brady will finish their business. relationship, regardless of how they personally feel about each other.
Reference-profootballtalk.nbcsports.com