The NFL has ruled Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady didn't violate NFL rules by visiting offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich's house to pick up a playbook, according to Tom Pelissero of NFL Media.
The NFL made an inquiry into Tom Brady’s recent visit to #Bucs OC Byron Leftwich’s house and determined there was no violation of offseason work rules, per league spokesman @NFLprguy. “It was a brief personal visit and Tom picked up the playbook.”
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) April 28, 2020
The Buccaneers star made news after it was reported that he had entered the wrong house. Brady was trying to enter into Leftwich's house but entered his next-door neighbors.
NFL players aren't supposed to meet face to face or discuss the playbook before the start of the offseason program. It appeared even though Brady was just picking up the playbook and a duffel bag, that it was a violation of those rules.
With the NFL ruling it wasn't against the rules, there will no doubt some teams raise some concerns about what the rule actually means. Before the ruling was handed down there were already teams that were furious.
Via CBS Sports:
According to [Jason] La Canfora, teams around the league have “conveyed their dismay to league officials” about Brady’s meeting, and since they believe the quarterback violated league policy, the teams are “anticipating some stern discipline” for Brady and/or the Buccaneers. As one source told Pro Football Talk, what Brady did was “totally illegal.”
It will be interesting if the NFL will reopen this investigation if teams start to raise more questions. This isn't the first time that the Buccaneers QB has been in the center of some controversy. The other big one when he was apart of the New England Patriots was deflate-gate. This isn't as big of an issue as that, and the NFL clearly doesn't' view it as an issue at all.
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