Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Former NFL quarterback Chris Simms understood why Jon Gruden may have passed on any plan to bring Tom Brady to the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020 when he was still the head coach there.
UFC president Dana White claimed over the weekend he had a plan to bring Brady and Rob Gronkowski to the Raiders in 2020 before the two landed with the Buccaneers.
White said it was Gruden who put the brakes on the apparent deal. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, #12, watches the snapped football during the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Training Camp on August 09, 2022 at the AdventHealth Training Center at One Buccaneer Place in Tampa, Florida. (Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Simms, who is now an analyst for NBC Sports, said on the "Pro Football Talk" show on Wednesday that Gruden did not want the pressure of having the legendary quarterback on the team, according to JoeBucsFan.com. "Oh, he didn’t want to deal with the pressure of Tom Brady.
He wasn’t going to have excuses to get out of that one, in case things didn’t work. He couldn’t blame Tom Brady if the offense didn’t work.