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It’s official: Tom Brady is Going Through It™ — at least, according to his Instagram Stories. Amid his ex-wife, Gisele Bündchen, moving on and his broadcasting career getting off to a rocky start (to put it mildly), the seven-time Super Bowl champ has exhibited some…questionable social media behavior. On Tuesday, after a recent on-air blunder, Brady posted a lengthy excerpt from President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous “The Man in the Arena” speech (along with the red heart, prayer hands, and sparkles emoji, no less). The passage — which also seems to be the inspiration behind the name of Brady’s ESPN docuseries — praises the man “who strives valiantly” and “who errs, and comes short again and again.” 

Now, this is hardly the first time Brady has posted what’s essentially the modern-day equivalent of an AIM away message. Last year, hours after Vanity Fair published an interview with Bündchen about their divorce, Brady posted a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote about success. And last week, precisely one day after it was reported that Bündchen and her jiu-jitsu instructor boyfriend are expecting their first baby together, the former quarterback once again took to Instagram, posting a picture of a sunset, accompanied by a clip of the Chicks’ “Landslide” cover. Naturally, we can’t help but wonder: Are all of these dramatically coded messages intended for Bündchen? And if so, what, exactly, is Brady trying to communicate — particularly given the rumors that Brady’s refusal to retire from the NFL caused their divorce? (For the record, Bündchen has called these allegations “very hurtful” and said Brady’s career was just “one piece of a much bigger puzzle.”) Or, did the man who has eaten a total of one strawberry in his life simply forget to share with only his Close Friends list? (It happens.) Who knows what the answer is, but we’re already thinking about what rich literature Brady will post to the ‘gram next. We’ve got our money on a Mary Oliver poem.