Lip-readers figured out Mike Evans told a ref why he protected Tom Brady in Saints brawl and it’s hilarious

“That’s Tom Brady, what you want me to do?!”

Mike Evans and New Orleans Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore have some history of fisticuffs.

But maybe the Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver had a different reason for jumping in to a fight that broke out in the fourth quarter of the Bucs’ Week 2 win.

Lattimore dismissively waved his hand at Tom Brady, and Leonard Fournette started defending his QB … and then Evans went in HARD on Lattimore and hit him hard, which led to ejections.

So what did Evans tell the referees about his role in it? Some lip-readers on Twitter think they found the answer, and it’s pretty funny: