Submitted by _Abe_Froman_SKOC t3_10q3xsv in todayilearned
Reply to comment by arlondiluthel in TIL Tom Brady was drafted by the Montreal Expos baseball team while still in high school, but instead chose to play football in college. This technically makes him the last player drafted by the Expos still playing professional sports. by _Abe_Froman_SKOC
The buccaneers have not said they don’t intend to re-sign him. There have been reports either way about Brady leaving or staying but nothing definitive
Right... But there is one answer: "we intend to re-sign", and anything otherwise would be not currently intending. Wanting, hoping, thinking of all fall into "not currently intending". It's like travel speed: there's stopped (0 MPH), and all other speeds.
This is untrue though. Just because Brady is set to be a free agent because his contract expired doesn’t mean they don’t currently intend to re-sign him. per Ian Rapoport within the article he’s quoted as saying he doesn’t know if Brady will return to Tampa bay despite the fact they “very much want him back”
Again, "very much wanting him back" isn't the same as "intend to re-sign".
You’re misrepresenting the situation. “Don’t currently intend to re-sign,” at least in sports terms, means the team is going to let the player go. The buccaneers very much do not want to let Brady go. They intend to re-sign him if he chooses to stay in Tampa bay. That is the truth of the matter, not “they don’t currently intend to re-sign him”
It's literally just semantics. If they were 100% for sure, matter-of-fact, "come Hell or high water" going to re-sign him, they would specifically say so. He's still with the team until the league year flips over, so they're allowed to do that per the league rules regarding pending free agents. The fact that they aren't means it's not a 100% guarantee.
It’s not semantics at all. Your original comments paints the situation as the buccaneers choosing to let Brady leave, which isn’t true. Rapoport, like I showed, said that the Bucs want to keep Brady. The whole situation is up to Brady. So while it may not be entirely accurate to say they intend to re-sign him, because the decision is ultimately Brady’s, it’s entirely untrue to say they don’t intend to re-sign him. entirely untrue
You're twisting what I actually said purely to be confrontational. Knock it off. "Don't currently intend to re-sign" in the context I chose to use it in, means literally that they haven't said they intend to re-sign. Why has no bearing. The fact of the matter is, the team has not said "we intend to re-sign". They've said that they want to, but it's up to Brady. That doesn't sound anything like "we intend to re-sign".
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