Bill Simmons

It really did become a football story this week.

Because for one thing, he's missing the third day of the draft where the Patriots had eight picks.

Now they have seven because they traded the fourth rounder.

But he's stayed there today for the draft.

He's there tomorrow.

And then he's gone for the weekend because he's got some family counseling stuff.

And did a press conference today and basically was like, I have to do this.

You know, he's like family first and football.

respectable um i don't know why i couldn't start on a sunday but um that made it more of a football story and then the fact that this seemed to be going on for um a long time um you know almost like that movie same time next year cross with brokeback mountain or something but um at some point

this became one of the craziest Boston stories.

I think ever, I don't, I can't tell you how many texts I've gotten about it.

How many I've sent about it.

Like just trying to figure out like, is this story going to get worse?

And it actually feels like it, like there's more coming and it feels like, you know, the evidence is whether it was an on again, off again thing or whatever, but they clearly had some sort of relationship and she was covering the team and he was coaching the Titans and the, and the Patriots.

She was covering the league.

Um,

the you know the athletic got involved they stood up the athletic and the patriots both stood up for them because they were telling them you know now this story is nothing it's nothing burger which you're gonna do you're trying to protect your family but then it was clear there was way more to the story and now the tone has shifted and it just feels like if you know all the patriots fans that i'm talking to and

you know, even somebody like my dad.

And we talk about it.

We're just like, this feels like a terrible omen just for the season.