The New England Patriots’ Week 1 trip to South Florida just got a whole lot spicier.
An NFL investigation, the results of which were announced Tuesday, revealed the Miami Dolphins tampered with Tom Brady for months in 2019, engaging in “impermissible communications” with the superstar quarterback throughout his final season in New England.
The league concluded these illegal talks began in August 2019 — the same month Brady signed the pseudo contract “extension” that paved the way for his Foxboro exit one year later — and continued through the 2019 postseason, which, for the Patriots, ended in a wild-card round loss to the Tennessee Titans.