Tom Brady Sr. says he’s ‘salivating’ over Tampa Bay Buccaneers-New England Patriots Week 4 matchup

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady could not include his enjoyment with the NFL timetable release, putting up on Instagram, “nine/nine can’t come quickly enough” when it was declared the Bucs would play the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL Kickoff Activity.

His father, Tom Brady Sr., is eyeing a distinct activity, although — Week 4, when the Bucs journey to play the New England Patriots, marking his son’s return to Foxborough right after major the Bucs to a Super Bowl get in his 1st period in Tampa right after twenty seasons with the Patriots.

“I noticed the timetable come out final night time, and I began salivating when I noticed that we play the Patriots in the fourth activity of the period and that we are coming up below to make our file 4- right after the fourth activity,” Brady Sr. claimed on the “Zolak and Bertrand” radio show on 98.5 The Sports Hub in Boston on Thursday morning.

Shortly right after his father’s surprise radio visual appearance, Brady tweeted about the activity with a nervous grin, declaring, “It truly is like when your significant college friends meet your college or university friends.”

It truly is like when your significant college friends meet your college or university friends 😬 https://t.co/RF5zVB9rI1

— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) May thirteen, 2021

Brady Sr., who lives in California, identified as Boston their “2nd residence” and identified as the Patriots their “2nd-favored crew,” expressing enjoy for the business and its fanbase. But he did not mince words, showing the apple isn’t going to drop considerably from the tree when it comes to currently being competitive.

“We anticipate to conquer the Patriots fairly handily, frankly,” Brady Sr. claimed.

“It truly is not a make a difference of walking out of town and currently being unsatisfied. He experienced a satisfied twenty many years there and most thriving twenty many years there. Now he’s in a different area with a different option to get. That is wonderful. And the Patriots have reloaded … ” Brady Sr. claimed.

“From my just take on it, I feel it is gonna be wonderful. I get to have a favored crew in the AFC and a favored crew in the NFC. And then they play on the fourth week of the yr. It truly is been a really — I am thrilled for this.”

As considerably as the likelihood of Brady breaking the job passing file (he is at this time one,154 yards guiding Drew Brees) in Foxborough, Brady Sr. claimed, “I feel that the lovers at Gillette will embrace him right until the opening kickoff, and then they are gonna boo the hell out of him, which is wonderful.

“I feel the lovers take pleasure in every thing he’s completed. I believe that the lovers have appreciated every thing he’s completed for them for twenty many years, but at the same time they are Patriots lovers, they are not Buccaneers lovers. So although you are rooting for Tommy, you are rooting in opposition to the Buccaneers.”

Brady Sr. expressed wonderful sentiment for his family’s time in New England.

“How do you do anything at all but take pleasure in every thing what the Krafts have completed for him, and Belichick has completed for him? The coaching staff members — these fellas have been in the trenches for twenty many years together,” Brady Sr. claimed.

But even Dad is just not crystal clear on how extended his son will carry on enjoying. Brady signed a agreement extension this offseason to free of charge up cap place — which was mostly liable for the Bucs currently being able to return all 22 Super Bowl starters on offense and protection — and it will maintain him in Tampa Bay for two much more many years. But Father Time waits for no a person.

“While he’s satisfied now, I feel he’s starting off to recognize that the … job is coming to an stop and he’s just savoring just about every minute as he walks down the remaining stretches — irrespective of whether it is following a person yr, two many years or 12 many years,” Brady Sr. claimed.

In accordance to Vivid Seats, the typical ticket cost for the activity on Oct. 3 is $one,370, with charges as significant as $12,000 on Ticketmaster.