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Brady with the Bucs, what ESPN should do and things change quickly ...

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● Can Brady win with the Bucs, by the way?

Yeah, he can.

The Bucs lost seven games last season by a touchdown or less, even with Famous Jameis becoming the first quarterbac­k in all of recorded history to throw 30 TD passes and 30 picks in the same season.

If Brady were 53, he wouldn’t throw that many intercepti­ons in one season.

And if you look around the NFC and see a real powerhouse right now, including the 49ers, raise a hand.

There have been all the other references to quarterbac­ks who didn’t know when to quit.

I was there in Atlanta the day J.W. Namath played his first game as a Ram, already looking like a shell of the player he’d been once.

But even though Peyton was a shell of himself by the end in Denver, he did win them a Super Bowl, even though the Broncos might have won that day if Von

Miller had been playing quarterbac­k.

And guess what?

Joe Montana could still play when he got to the Chiefs, even though he was five years younger than Brady is right now when he finally retired.

In his first year in KC, he took the Chiefs to the AFC championsh­ip game, where he got concussed by the Bills in the third quarter and had to sit out the rest of the game.

Could Brady make a run with the Bucs?

Again: Take a close look their record last season and tell me why not.

● You know what ESPN ought to do right now?

Go back and replay some of the interviews the great Dick

Schaap once conducted on ESPN Classic.

● My pal Harlan Coben didn’t get to go on the road with his new one, “The Boy From the Woods.”

But that sure doesn’t mean you can’t buy it, and read it. Probs in one night.

We talk all the time about how quickly things change in sports. Only it’s not just sports.

It was just 10 days ago that

Rudy Gobert tested positive and the NBA was the first sports league to suspend its season. ● You know who’s looked and sounded and acted like the president of the United States over the past week? Gov. Andrew Cuomo. And the actual president? NBC’s Peter Alexander, one of the best reporters in the business and one of the best people in the business, got himself lit into by the president and called a bad reporter on Friday for asking the following question:

“What do you say to people who are scared?”

There’s your wartime president right there.

● If you’ve never seen the interview David Feherty did on The Golf Channel with Bill

Russell, it is well worth a look, and listen, to the greatest winner in the history of American team sports.

● Two NCAA titles, 11 NBA titles in 13 seasons and, oh by the way, a 10-0 record in the Game 7s he played in his life, 5-0 in the Game 7s he played in the finals.

The question is, who gets the silver medal as an alltime winner?

Michael or Brady?

See what I did there?

I go with Michael.

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