Tom Brady is making other NFL teams mad, and it's not over his troll-y contract

Ted Berg is out this week, so Nate Scott filling in again for the Morning Win. 

This week Tom Brady signed a "contract extension" with the New England Patriots, which wasn't really a contract extension at all. (Have to love the intricacies of the NFL salary cap.)

The new contract will see him paid an average of $28.3 million per year, which people were all too eager to paint as a subtle, delicious dig at the Atlanta Falcons, who led the Patriots 28-3 in the Super Bowl before, you know, not leading them anymore.

Was it a petty move by Brady and the Patriots to remind the rest of the league that no lead is safe against them? Was that a random number that just so worked out to be around what he and the Patriots agreed was his market value? Better question: Does it really matter?

I highly doubt anyone on the Falcons thought twice about Brady's contract number, which sees him paid about the same as Drew Brees and gives the Patriots more flexibility in building the roster around him. What the Falcons and other NFL teams probably care about more is that Tom Brady is still, at age 42, playing football. And that he's playing it very well.

Especially for other teams in the AFC, this all has to be getting very old. When Brady won his first Super Bowl, we were a year into the George W. Bush administration. There are plenty of opposing DBs who were in grade school when Brady stepped into the NFL limelight.

And yet here he is, in 2019, still going. Our own Steven Ruiz made a compelling case this week that Brady is the G.O.A.T. - the Greatest of All Time - and I didn't see anyone in our mentions freak out and argue about it. It's just sort of accepted now.

For opposing GMs and coaches, having someone that dominant (paired with a coach as dominant in Bill Belichick) is something you deal with, quietly, never letting your fans or media know how frustrating it all is. But in the back of their minds, they have to looking at the clock. Thinking, "OK, he can't keep doing this forever. Eventually, he'll step away, and Belichick will retire, and we won't have to deal with this every year."

And yet here we are, encroaching the second decade of this, and nothing seems to be slowing down. Brady's signing another new contract and looking fired up in training camp. He's perfected his diet, spends his entire life training with one goal in mind: To keep playing football.

The Patriots are once again one of the favorites in the AFC. I doubt many teams care about what the number is attached to Brady's contract, or who it trolls. I'm guessing they only care that he's still out there, again.

Quick Hits: NASCAR Beef, Proud Papas, Serena the G.O.A.T.

- Bubba Wallace is beefing with Kyle Busch, and I'm guessing if I had just left Kyle Busch's name blank you could have guessed that it was him. I feel like we should set up a template with who Kyle Busch is beefing with that week, and then we can just fill it in, MadLibs style. Guy seems to beef a lot. Whole lot o' beef.

- The Marlins' Isan Diaz smashed a big ole tater during his debut while the TV people were interviewing his parents in the stands. His dad chose to conclude the interview by cheering like crazy for a minute straight and totally ignoring the fact that he was on TV, making it the best TV interview of the year.

- To show how Serena Williams is the G.O.A.T. in tennis, Michelle Martinelli let all the other people in tennis talk about how she's the G.O.A.T. There's being great, and then there's being so great that everyone you compete against just sort of shrugs and admits you're the best of all time.