Brady's salary went down from 19 Million in 2014 to 13 million in 2015, then it sat at 15 million per for the next three seasons. He went to the Bucs and averaged 33 million for the next 3 years. Did Tom take less money as a Patriot?
And before you say it, he didn't take less money because BB was a meanie or Kraft was cheap, he took less because he understood the salary cap, team building and how his contract as the most expensive player on the team effected it.
He was never a slave. At any point he could have stopped playing ball and earned top dollar there or elsewhere.
He was taking close to half what he could have earned on the open market... and you're telling me the percentage of cap he owed at the end of his Pat's run, while they were kicking his cap debt down the road was "among" the highest of his career... not surprising.
In 2010 Tom Brady became the highest paid player in the entire NFL... for a while, and that was the big difference between then and from 2014 on when he was taking half the money and the team was pushing his cap debt into the future. Big shocker, from 2018 on the Patriots pushed Stephon Gilmore's cap debt down the road also. That and a thigh injury is why they had to trade him for peanuts.
You providing a one season snapshot of a player's cap figure with zero context, just tells me you don't understand the cap.
I'd suggest you stop trying at this point.