We can never get enough NFL speculation so here’s where Teddy Bridgewater may end up

I love the NFL. The actual game that is. Not the flawed officiating, coaching challenges and stream of TV timeouts.

And I’m usually happy when a champion is crowned and the off-season arrives, but that’s not the case this year.

I’m already mocked out. Several bazillion by my last count, and we are still seven weeks out from the league draft April 23-25 in Las Vegas. Everywhere you turn, there’s a mock draft here, a mock draft there, here a mock, there a mock, everywhere a mock mock.

Mock drafts seem to be traveling at “mach’‘ speeds.

Free agency can’t come soon enough. “Legal tampering’‘ begins March 16; the real deal two days later. I pray the NFL Players Association approves a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Voting on the current proposal ends Thursday.

And, if I read or hear about another potential destination for estranged quarterback Tom Brady, I may pull out the few remaining hair follicles on my head.

It seems with every news cycle, Brady is either splitting from the Commonweath of Bill Belichick or returning to the New England Patriots on bended knee, depending on the hour and day of the week. If “Have Six Super Bowl Rings, Will Travel’‘ is not re-signing with his former team, he’s going to Las Vegas, or San Francisco, or Indianapolis, or Miami, or Dallas, or San Diego, or Tampa Bay, or Chicago, or Tennessee.

Did I miss a team?

Look, I understand this is the world in which we live, where it’s often better for purveyors of news to be first rather than right and seldom let facts stand in the way of a good story.

I also understand the NFL off-season is a feeding ground for rumors, speculation, gossip, hearsay, conjecture, prattle, chatter, blather, babble and the spreading of half-truths or no truths at all. Or, in the words of the late Jim Finks, “the truth as we know it.’‘

I’m guilty of it, too (see above).

It’s the nature of the business.

Since I’m on the subject of dispensing minutiae, let me pass on the latest odds from BetOnLine that pertain to the future home of New Orleans Saints free agent quarterback Teddy Bridgewater now that Drew Brees plans to resume his career with the Black and Gold.

Indianapolis 1/1

Los Angeles Chargers 3/1

New England 3/1

Tampa Bay 7/1

Chicago 10/1

Miami 12/1

Carolina 16/1

Bulletin! ... Bulletin! ... Bulletin!

I interrupt this column for breaking news: Giselle Bunchen plans to buy an XFL franchise and name her G.O.A.T./husband, Tom Brady, president/GM/coach/player, lure Rob Gronkowski out of retirement and sign repentant wide receiver Anthony Brown, according to unnamed sources ... Patriots reportedly are working on a blockbuster trade with Cincinnati involving players and multiple draft picks to move up to No. 1 with designs on LSU quarterback Joe Burrow.

You heard it here first. And if I’m wrong, well, the next news cycle will cover up my mess.

No harm, no foul, right?

On to the next piece of specious folly.