Weeks after a federal judge rescinded Tom Brady's four-game suspension for his role in Deflategate, the Patriots quarterback's character again is being challenged.
ESPN analyst Tim Hasselbeck was a guest Tuesday on the Dennis and Callahan Show on WEEI radio in Boston and went off on Brady for defending his body coach and business partner, Alex Guerrero, on the program a day earlier, Boston.com reported.
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A Boston Magazine story that ran last week exposed Guerrero as a fraud for making false claims that he was a doctor and that a supplement he was promoting, Supreme Greens (a vegetable-based product), could treat cancer.
The Federal Trade Commission ordered that Guerrero pay a $65,000 fine or turn in his 2004 Cadillac Escalade over the Supreme Greens claim.
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When host Gerry Callahan told Brady that vegetables don't help terminally ill cancer patients, the quarterback responded, according to Boston.com's earlier report: "They may or may not. Who knows? Does everyone have all the answers for that? Do you have the answers for that?"
The response did not sit well with Hasselbeck.
"If you are arguably the best quarterback of all-time and at your disposal you literally could partner with anybody on the planet to make an impact on whatever you are called to do, are you going to choose the guy that acted like he was dealing with 200 terminally ill cancer patients?" Hasselbeck asked.
Brady said during his interview that in the 10 or 11 years he's worked with Guerrero that Guerrero never has been wrong. Brady once endorsed another product of Guerrero's called NeuroSafe, which was supposed to protect the brain from the consequences of sports-related traumatic brain injury -- i.e., reduce the effects of a concussion.
"Guerrero did not have 'reliable scientific evidence to substantiate the extraordinary claims [of NeuroSafe],' the FTC wrote in a letter," Boston.com reported. "The FTC investigated the product, but declined to act upon Guerrero's false claims, because he sold limited inventory, discontinued the product, and refunded purchasers."
To which Hasselbeck made the comment about the type of people Brady associates with.
"To me, something is not adding up here when I see this guy that I think is a great guy, always with these bad guys. When that happens, you then say, 'OK, maybe he's not who I thought he was,'" Hasselbeck said. "It doesn't prove that's the case -- [but] it certainly makes you wonder."
It's unclear who else Hasselbeck is throwing in that category of Brady confidants.
Brady did accompany Ben Affleck and his nanny on a Las Vegas jaunt, unbeknownst to Affleck's wife, Jennifer Garner. And he did consort with the Patriots equipment managers accused of deflating footballs before last year's AFC Championship Game.
And presidential hopeful Donald Trump has spoken highly of Brady as well. But are they the "bad guys" to which Hasselbeck is referring?
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