Brady is not playing at an MVP level, I think the last shot they have at a Super Bowl in the Brady era is this year (a lot has to break right for them for that to happen) and as Tom E Curran put it a couple of days ago, for the first time in 17 years there is a palpable feeling that the window is closing on this Brady/Belichick dynasty.
Curran also said they never even made an offer to Garrapolo, but so I can be like you I’ll make sh.t up and say it was because Garrapolo didn’t come back from injury when he was supposed, so Belichick decided he wasn’t tough enough to play QB in the NFL and shipped him to SF for whatever he could get. It’s not true but since we are just making sh.t up it might as well be.