This is the problem with the "silly season" between Draft Day and regular Training Camp. We start to parse everything every player, coach, manager or cheerleader says and then we start to worry about it.
Personally, I just thought that Tommy was dishing a little BS in the general direction of the media and the Jests, ready to get a laugh out of how people would react.
But now, the poster who reminds us that TB loves the Apple and his Apple-icious GF reminds me that Golden Boy is only signed through 2010 and doesn't owe the Pats a thing--he's already a Round One HOFer, he's worked and is working for a lot less money than he deserves, he took his team to the AFCG in 06/07 without even a B+ receiver and then watched his O-line go all wobbly on him and turn him into Target Practice for Osi and co. in the next season's SB.
Pretty soon, someone's gonna suggest that he's hinting he'd be happy to solve the Jests Chad/Kellen problems in a couple of years. Any doubt in anybody's mind that the Jests would open the vaults for him? That he'd make more endorsement money than God in NYC? Sure, he'd have to hold his nose and make the commute to the Deadowlands during the season, but Giselle would be waiting at home and his limo would be comfy (heck, he could afford to buy a primo pad downtown just a few minutes from the Downtown Heliport and chopper over and back in 15 minutes).
When does Training Camp start so we can forget about this nonsense...
