Brady cuts interview short after Alex Guerrero questions
Tom Brady apparently has no interest in publicly discussing his close friend and personal trainer, Alex Guerrero.
On Monday morning, for the second time in the past month, the New England Patriots' star quarterback ended an interview prematurely due to questions about Guerrero's standing with the team.
Guerrero traveled with the Patriots to Carolina for Friday's preseason game against the Panthers. Last season, head coach Bill Belichick reportedly curbed the trainer's access to non-Brady players and stopped him from joining the team on road trips.
Here's Monday's exchange between WEEI sports radio host Kirk Minihane and Brady that led to the quarterback hanging up, according to Mike Reiss of ESPN:
Minihane: We saw the reports this weekend that Alex was on the team plane, which he wasn't for the second half of last year, I guess, and not on the sideline. Is that accurate?
Brady: Yeah, he was with me this last week, so it was; yeah.
Minihane: What changed with him not being on the team plane last year and this year? Was that just communication back and forth? Was that understanding of other things? What led to that being able to happen this year?
Brady: You know, I don't want to; I'm not getting into all that.
Minihane: OK, when I ran into him at the Super Bowl last year in Minneapolis, I remember talking about it at the time. When I talked to him there, he had said, in his opinion, all this stuff had been overblown, that he and (Bill) Belichick had a pretty good relationship, even then. Would you say that was true?
Brady: I said I don't want to get into it.
Minihane: OK, go ahead, (co-host) Evan (Drellich).
Brady: Yeah. Everyone knows, it's well-documented how the work he and I do together.
Minihane: No, I understand that. I'm just trying to figure out because I saw the reports this weekend that he was traveling with the team. Was he on the sideline Friday?
Brady: Yeah, all right guys, have a great day. I'll talk to you later (dial tone).
Tom Brady abruptly ended an interview after being asked questions about his trainer, Alex Guerrero. pic.twitter.com/xjp8pNBG2G
- ESPN (@espn) August 27, 2018
Brady previously cut an interview short at training camp July 28, when a reporter asked the pivot to comment on the potential connection between Guerrero and Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman's suspension for performance-enhancing drugs.
"I have no comment. That's just ridiculous. I'm out. See you guys," Brady said at the time before walking away.
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