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It turns out the @patriots did find Tom Brady's replacement, and went even bigger:

From Brady's #MAGA hat...

to drafting a kicker with a tattoo of a far-right militia with ties to white supremacy.

(He says he'll cover it now. Why not earlier?)
washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/04…
Keep in mind Bill Belichick's fawning letter to Trump on the eve of the 2016 election.
Bob Kraft's fawning endorsement non-endorsement of Trump on the eve of the 2016 Mass. primary.

"Do your job?"
It sounds better in the original German.
The reporting suggests he knew about the tattoo for a while, knew what it meant but left it on until now.
The Patriots knew about it and drafted him anyway.

It explains why this received media attention immediately when he was drafted.

(Who drafts a kicker in the 5th anyway??)
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