NFL Rumors: Tom Brady Won’t Take Hometown Discount To Stay With Patriots

IcyPatriot said:

Not surprising ...
Brady is good at tea leaves ... he will depart gracefully.
He has already had offers ... nature of that business.
Everybody moving on is not a bad thing - though some will twist it that way.

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TommyBrady12 said:

I stand by my belief that his main home will be in CT for Gisele and the kids, and he'll temporarily buy/rent another place for the season wherever he ends up signing. He's getting ready for life after football.

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Maybe. Like Brandon I'm not getting caught up in the moving stuff although the emptying out of Gisele's box at Gillette is interesting.

dreighver said:

Wait, just so I'm clear ...

Gisele cleaning out her stadium suite ("perhaps" in a way it has never been cleaned before) - a room she presumably wouldn't use until the 1st week of August ...

is the end-all-be-all confirmation we need that Brady is gone?

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No but the fact that she/they cleaned out the suite in a way in which has not been before is newsworthy.

Does it mean anything? Time will tell.

robertweathers said:

No but the fact that she/they cleaned out the suite in a way in which has not been before is newsworthy.

Does it mean anything? Time will tell.

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The leave no stone unturned theory ... strategy is good.

dreighver said:

Wait, just so I'm clear ...

Gisele cleaning out her stadium suite ("perhaps" in a way it has never been cleaned before) - a room she presumably wouldn't use until the 1st week of August ...

is the end-all-be-all confirmation we need that Brady is gone?

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Ughh why do we torture ourselves these rumors are ridiculous. This is going to be a long off season.

IcyPatriot said:

Not surprising ...
Brady is good at tea leaves ... he will depart gracefully.
He has already had offers ... nature of that business.
Everybody moving on is not a bad thing - though some will twist it that way.

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**** that. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, Brady. You Connecticut backstabber!!!!! You metrosexual free agent!!

robertweathers said:

No but the fact that she/they cleaned out the suite in a way in which has not been before is newsworthy.

Does it mean anything? Time will tell.

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You add up all the circumstantial evidence of Brady leaving and it doesnt look great

IcyPatriot said:

The leave no stone unturned theory ... strategy is good.

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Gisele is shrewd. She didn't get a $600m net worth by just strutting on a catwalk.

If I had to list my top 100 preferred outcomes for next season, numbers 1 through 99 would involve Brady still being here.

But if I'm being honest with myself, there is that 1% of me that is SUPER curious what it will look like with him gone, and what Belichick's strategy will be to cope with it. He went 11-5 with Matt Cassel, with that being an emergency situation they didn't plan for. I would want to see how they try to build the team, and what method they use to find a replacement QB (even if it's not meant to be the longterm successor).

Again though, that's a small part of me that would be interested from a storyline perspective. And, should it happen, I fully expect to be raked over the coals in a "careful what you wish for" fashion.

we all knew this day would come. TB12 said he'll leaves when he sucks. Maybe he didn't suck in 2019 but he surely didn't play like the old GOAT. His old man said it will be ugly, but maybe we'll dodge that drama. I figure he'll meet with BB over the next month to figure out how the rebuilt roster might look and whether he'll suck or not with it... Then decide if he wants to retire as a Pat or take his new level of play to another team where he can extend his career as he builds his after-football brand.

TommyBrady12 said:

You add up all the circumstantial evidence of Brady leaving and it doesnt look great

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If this were a trial not sure even the departed Johnnie Cochran could work with this.

robertweathers said:

Gisele is shrewd. She didn't get a $600m net worth by just strutting on a catwalk.

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As belichick said ... more people involved in the decision.

IcyPatriot said:

As belichick said ... more people involved in the decision.

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Forget Tom and Yee. They are useless.

The gal from Horizontina, Brazil is calling the shots now.

dreighver said:

Wait, just so I'm clear ...

Gisele cleaning out her stadium suite ("perhaps" in a way it has never been cleaned before) - a room she presumably wouldn't use until the 1st week of August ...

is the end-all-be-all confirmation we need that Brady is gone?

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Sounds like a lot of speculation. "Perhaps" well has it or hasn't it lol?

robertweathers said:

Forget Tom and Yee. They are useless.

The gal from Horizontina, Brazil is calling the shots now.

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... and we married men get it.
For the single men here ... watch and learn.

Froob said:

Sounds like a lot of speculation. "Perhaps" well has it or hasn't it lol?

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"Perhaps" just tells me no one was really paying attention to how it's been cleaned in the past.

Sicilian said:

"Perhaps" just tells me no one was really paying attention to how it's been cleaned in the past.

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They’re certainly looking for reasons now. I’m calling BS.

IcyPatriot said:

... and we married men get it.
For the single men here ... watch and learn.

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Moving into my girlfriends in like a month, guess I’ll find out lol

IcyPatriot said:

... and we married men get it.
For the single men here ... watch and learn.

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In fairness to Tom, Gisele absolutely needs to be involved in the decision. I've had jobs in which travel globally was extensive and I sure as hell didn't make the decision unilaterally. If I did Mrs RW would kill me.

I do think her primary focus is his health and happiness, what will make him happy moving forward, he is treated like he deserves and he gets out of it what he puts into it.

Is that with the Patriots in 2020? Only Tom can answer that and I'm willing to bet Gisele will be asking those same questions and if Tom is not truthful with her or changes his mind after he signs the deal......she will kill him.