The great social scientist (i.e. comedian) Larry Miller once talked about people who get married, get divorced, and then marry each other again: "That's like finding sour milk in your fridge and saying, 'Well, maybe if I put it back in the fridge for a few days...'"
I know a couple who would strongly disagree with Larry Milier on that point.
Their first date was the 7th grade valentine dance. They went steady all through high school and college and got married a month after college.
She had gone on ONE date with someone else when they had a week long fight they had in college. He never had single date other than her.
After less than a year of marriage, they were separated. Shortly after that divorced.
After 3 years of being apart they saw each other at a mutual friends wedding. At the wedding they confessed to each other that the divorce was the biggest mistake of their lives and that the grass is most certainly not greener.
They got remarried 3 months later.
They recently celebrated their 15th second wedding anniversary. They have huge sign in their kitchen that say, "the grass ain't greener." They regret having gotten divorced but say it was an inevitable result of having never dated other people before marriage.
Point being, sometimes you don't know how good you got it until things change.
It is entirely possible that Branch regrets forcing the trade in the first place and will have a renewed desire to do anything possible to remain a Patriot. It is entirely possible that Brady regrets replacing a dependable very good WR who comes up big in the playoffs, for a great but temperamental one that disappears in the playoffs.
