Tom Brady reportedly holding out of OTAs until he gets a Jimmy Garoppolo-like contract has been revealed to be one big gaff.

On Thursday night, Ron Borges of the Boston Herald posted a story centered around the MVP's gripe with his contract in light of Garoppolo's historic, record-breaking deal with the San Francisco 49ers. NESN and NBC Sports Boston were quick to refute the report and now we're finding out that it was nothing more than a hoax.

WEEI's Kirk and Callahan discovered the source of Borges' report was a listener known as "Nick in Boston" posing as Brady's agent, Don Yee. He contacted Borges via text and fed him the faux information there.

"Busy, busy night," part of the text thread reads. "Brady is prepared to sit out all offseason team activity unless he gets a new deal with up front money similar to what Jimmy got."

Borges replies, "Sounds like I need to write a column today."

The Herald did removed the story from their website completely, but unfortunately for them the paper ran with it as their lead story on the back page of Friday's edition.

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