Bruschi, Romo, Collingsworth and Peter King have all stated that Brady needs talent around him.
The Pats failed to staff the offense in 2018, but still dodged a bullet in the Super Bowl. Gordon came available unexpectedly and may have actually saved the season despite quitting.
The Pats obviously did not do enough on offense this season otherwise the Pats would still be playing.
According to Curran’s incorrect opinion, the issue at hand was the supposed lack of resources spent by the team. The offense failed mainly in part to a late March retirement notice from Rob Gronkowski, injuries to the starting LT, C, and nagging ailments from Brady, Edelman, and Michel. Role players like Cannon and Burkhead also battled injuries on some level. The loss of James Devlin hurt badly.
At one point the offense looked loaded. They went out and brought in Antonio Brown (“the” free agent on the market at the time), as well as trading a high second round pick for Mohamed Sanu. In the meantime, they had also brought in Demaryius Thomas, and were still dealing with the Josh Gordon move from last year. In week two, people were calling them a super bowl caliber team and the offense looked great. They recently also spent first round picks at WR and RB.
In the 5 seasons prior, they went to the SB 4 times, and that included a first round trade for Brandin Cooks, and also signing the premiere CB in the league with Revis, and once again with Gilmore. They also retained a bunch of key pieces like Mason, Andrews, Cannon, White, Edelman, Hightower, Harmon, Jones, and McCourty. At one point last year, they had the 6th highest number of players making more than 10m+ out of any of the NFL teams.
How do you see this as failing to spend money in an attempt to build a good team around Brady?