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Jimmy Garoppolo rumors: New England Patriots expected to keep backup QB beyond 2017
Not sure if this is old news, but Schefter had some interesting thoughts on Jimmy G in Matt Miller's podcast yesterday. He thinks Jimmy's here for the long haul...and if that's the case I don't know where that leaves Brady. The pats really love JG's talent.
Not sure if this is old news, but Schefter had some interesting thoughts on Jimmy G in Matt Miller's podcast yesterday. He thinks Jimmy's here for the long haul...and if that's the case I don't know where that leaves Brady. The pats really love JG's talent.
"Now, again, going forward, how is that going to operate and how is that going to work -- will the Patriots risk losing Jimmy Garoppolo? My own sense is no. They are going to figure out a way one way or another to keep him there -- whether that means signing him to an extension, or franchising him, or making it work. We'll see how that plays out. I don't think they are going to lose him. I don't think they want to lose him. I think they recognize how good they think he is -- many of us don't know that right now because we haven't seen him play on a consistent basis. They have. They've watched him practice. They've seen him in practice. They know what he is and isn't capable of. They are big believers in him.
"Again, I'd like to say this, Tom Brady, that Super Bowl was 28-3 at one point, and if that game had continued on that course, the offseason would have been dedicated to people talking about is it time to replace Tom Brady with Jimmy Garoppolo? When Tom Brady turned that game around, not only did he win a Super Bowl for the Patriots, he stayed off all the [naysayers] that would have come, I believe if they would have lost that game as decisively and as one-sided as it was at one point in time. He's 40 years old. He's going to be 40 years old this year and he is the greatest quarterback of all-time. None of that is in dispute, and he may play for five or six more years, he may do that, but the chances are he's not going to because nobody has ever done that before. I'm not going to challenge the great Tom Brady in any way. I would never challenge that guy ever, but Father Time usually wins that battle. If he can beat Father Time, he's ever more incredible than we think he is. We'll see.
"Again, I think the Patriots recognize they have what they believe is a commodity and a successor in the wings and they have developed him, put a lot of time in him. They don't want to lose him. I don't know how they work it out, but somehow some way something tells me they will find a way to get it done.".
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