If Deflategate is used to keep Bill Belichick out of the Hall of Fame, then Tom Brady should also be excluded under that same standard.

“Who would have been a beneficiary of Spygate? Who would have been a beneficiary name of Deflate Gate? >> Number 12. >> Are you going to keep Tom Brady out? >> You're not. So, why would you keep coach Bellich out?”

Fans often root against star players until those players join their own team.

“A lot of people rooted against Randy Johnson, but guess what they did when the Yankees got they rooted for him because he's on your team now. That's what fans do.”

Tom Brady embodies a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps mentality that is viewed as outdated by modern culture.

“our second reason on our list of five is that he embodies this pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps mentality that is just so outdated”

Jason Kelce questions why Tom Brady chose to buy a minority stake in the Las Vegas Raiders rather than in the New England Patriots team with which he won six Super Bowls.

“why didn't he do this with craft and the team he won six Super Bowls with”

Megyn Kelly believes Tom Brady's current behavior of seeking constant attention and participating in low-brow influencer stunts is damaging his legacy as a sports icon.

“I didn't know whether that was a stunt, you know, for clicks or real. Then came two days later this at um actually I don't know where it was, but it was the two of them once again and it's Tom Brady give a World Cup giving Logan Paul the finger. Watch. Logan Paul giving him the finger back.”

Dan Le Batard believes Tom Brady is intentionally choosing to be uninteresting to avoid taking sides regarding the Patriots.

“But which do you think is more true? Is he aspiring to neutrality or he doesn't actually want the Patriots to win and doesn't want to say that?”