Soon-to-be father and star quarterback Tom Brady knows he can’t make all the calls.

He’d like a few days off to be at the birth of his first child — “I hope so,” he said Monday — but the Patriots’ schedule and coach Bill Belichick might get in his way.

“Bill has a lot to say,” Brady said, “so we’ll deal with it when it happens.”

New England plays the third of its four exhibition games — the one in which Brady usually gets the most playing time — on Friday night at Carolina. The first regular season game is set for Sept. 9 at the New York Jets.

Brady refused to say Monday if his former girlfriend, actress Bridget Moynahan, is due to give birth to their child before the Jets game. But on Feb. 19, six months ago, her publicist, Christina Papadopoulos, said she “is over three months pregnant. Former boyfriend Tom Brady is the father.”

He doesn’t know when he’ll get a telephone call telling him he’s about to be, or already is, a father.

“I wish I did,” he said with a smile. “That’s God’s decision. The good lord is making that call. So I think everybody’s anxious. I’ll put it that way.”

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