For Tom Brady, it was all about the playing time, but was his position preposterous?
USA TODAY Sports' For the Win reported that George Atallah, the NFL Players Association Assistant Executive Director of External Affairs, went on the Dan Patrick Radio Show to talk about what the New England Patriots quarterback would have accepted as punishment for Deflategate, per a tweet from CBS Sports' Noah Coslov.
George Atallah on @dpshow says that Brady's settlement offer was "No suspension and a fine” - to which the NFL didn’t respond.— Noah Coslov (@NoahCoslov) July 30, 2015
Money is not much of an issue with Brady, whose wife Gisele Bundchen earned $47 million as a model last year before retiring.
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For the Win thought little of Brady's negotiating, compared his counteroffer to the NFL accordingly:
"Good work, guys. And for that, what, Don Yee (Brady's agent) is getting $1,100 per billable hour? That's like going into a car dealership and the salesman says, 'I think we can get you in this car at $24,500, but that's as low as my manager will let me go.' And you pause for a few seconds and finally say, 'how about you pay me $500 to take it off your hands and give me some coupons to Chili's for the trouble.' Had Brady and his lawyers been at the Reykjavik Conference, they'd have been all, eh, just give it all to the Soviets. If they were representing you at a shoplifting trial, you'd be in Supermax next to the Unabomber."
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The proposal from Brady's camp is consistent with a theory NFL.com's Ian Rapoport had about the Patriots' quarterback being scared of backup Jimmy Garoppolo stepping in and playing well enough to give New England pause to reinsert the four-time Super Bowl-winning QB.
Atallah also told Patrick he didn't know whether the NFL had it in for Brady because their recent decisions on other disciplinary actions have been arbitrary.
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