Tom Brady can start for the Patriots as long as he wants to.
Tom Brady is now more Massachusetts royalty than the Kennedy's. New England loves that man.
Even if you want to throw loyalty out the window and get rid of the face of your franchise's success, and just focus on "the business" - mark my words: Trading Brady or cutting him would be the worst mistake Kraft's owned Patriot team ever made, now and for all time.
It would be so bad it has curse potential.
Tom Brady is the 21st century New England Patriots personified. The back lash would be greater than you know. Forum posters aren''t a good barometer for the real world. The average majority of loving Patriot fans would be crushed and angry as hell, and for the foreseeable future, it would be bad enough to shrink the Patriots brand.
Like Gronk said about him selling his crib: "Tom Brady does what Tom Brady wants to do."
5 Superbowl games, 3 rings, and 8 AFC Championship appearances. If he wants to pull a Favre on his final year and not retire for one more run as a Patriot, I can get onboard with that.
Down 24-0 to Denver in the wind, in the elements, in the biggest game of the year, I want Tom Brady breathing fire, not JAG with good hair.
Brady hating trolls.