Buccaneers dismiss ‘chatter’ over Tom Brady’s alleged Dolphins scheme

• Stories claim quarterback was plotting move to Miami
• Brady came out of retirement to rejoin Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay have brushed off a recent story that Tom Brady had been planning to move to the Miami Dolphins before he came out of a brief retirement to rejoin the Buccaneers this off-season.

Stories in recent weeks claimed a plan had been in place for Brady to join the Dolphins as an executive before coming out of retirement to replace Tua Tagovailoa as the team's starting quarterback. The Dolphins also allegedly intended to appoint former New Orleans head coach Sean Payton to run the team. A pre-determined decision to appoint Payton would have contravened the NFL's Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview a minority candidate for major coaching vacancies. The NFL is currently being sued by a number of Black head coaches who say teams gave sham interviews to minority candidates with no intention of appointing them.