For about a year now, Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio has been banging the drum for a Tom Brady-49ers pairing. Brady's first "retirement" didn't stop Florio: In March 2022, the writer predicted that Brady would be the Niners' Week 1 quarterback. Apparently, Brady's second retirement hasn't cooled Florio's jets on the idea.
During Super Bowl week, Florio wrote that Brady filing official retirement paperwork was a near-meaningless attention grab. On Thursday, he came out and began to push a little harder, with a post headlined, "Will the 49ers try to get Tom Brady to end his second annual retirement?