Tom Brady Will Be Ready for the Season Opener, Calls NFL Juice 'A Bunch of Liars'*

There was some heavy blog petting yesterday about -- yes, I should work on my figurative language, thanks -- Tom Brady missing a month of the NFL season. Not much noise, but the folks at NFL Juice stirred the pot enough to get a sarcastic post out of Spud at Deadspin.

Well, Brady, *who did not actually say anything about any blogs in his comments to the press, is here to tell you that he will be just fine when his season kicks off on Sunday.

"If it's up to me, there's no question" Brady said. "I've been getting progressively better over the past couple of weeks. I'm excited. I'm excited to start the year."

[...] "I felt like I could play all of them and I practiced the entire preseason, pretty much," he said. "The decision was made that, OK, Tom, you're not going to play, and I was fine with it."

Yeah, there are a lot of things at play here: First, Bill Belichick is notoriously annoying about his injury report, not mention mysterious when it comes to the preseason (thanks for that with Randy Moss last year Bill; seriously, that was awesome for fantasy leagues).

And secondly, this is the Chiefs they're playing in Week 1. Brady is going to play unless he requires surgery because, well, he won't have to do much. He'll come in, hand it Laurence Maroney three times, give ~~Chad Jackson~~ Wes Welker an end around and then throw a 40 yard play action fade to Moss. Beantown will rejoice and forget all about the Giants winning and the Sox not making the playoffs. Life will be miserable again.