Is Brady Entering his final year?

[mosslost]

Kraft values BB's opinion more than Tom Brady's....think about that and let it sink in

Brady has total control over whether he is the Patriots Quarterback for the next few years by continuing to play as he does. Nothing can happen to happen if he continues as he is...he won't be traded or cut. silly

 

[mosslost]

The one thing I can guarantee is that Brady won't play out his career here if he dreams of playing until he's 45

You can disagree or click on funny but what I just wrote is the absolute truth.

>>You can disagree or click on funny but what I just wrote is the absolute truth.

Nah.. its false.

 

[mosslost]

The one thing I can guarantee is that Brady won't play out his career here if he dreams of playing until he's 45

You can disagree or click on funny but what I just wrote is the absolute truth.

 

[mosslost]

I respect your reply, but I disagree.
Belichick is all about value & Garoppalo's value will never be higher than it was during the draft.

Belichick would not go from a potential top 12 pick to maybe a third rounder to keep Garoppalo for one year.

I hope I am wrong, but I agree with the guy who started this thread.

Only time will tell.

no one offered ****e for JAG

 

[ChessToCheckers]

I don't believe they would trade and I believe Brady will play 4-5 more seasons. They will trade Garrapolo in August if Brissett is ready, and they will pick Brady's successor in next years draft.

I couldn't agree more.

IMO, it's not about age; it's about success. When you have the Greatest Player Of All Time leading his team deep into the playoffs year after year after year, you play him for as long as you can. Period.

Given how important the QB position is to success, they back him up with the best insurance available and keep doing it. When Brissett is ready they'll trade JG for whatever they can get for him.

I take Tom at his word. He is consumed by playing football. He loves it in the stable New England system and will play here until he cannot!

Meanwhile, I am savoring every game he plays and am assuming his successor is still in high school.

 

[bbobbo]

Belichick always trades players just as they decline slightly

So I'm basing it on Belichick's history and lack of emotion regarding such decisions

corey dillon
steven neal
troy brown
tedy bruschi
matt light
rodney harrison
kevin faulk
dan koppen
jerod mayo
vince wilfork

 

[Simpelton]

The franchise will not move on from Brady without a reason to do so. Right now Brady has given the fans no real reason to believe he's nearly done. Unless he's preparing to do a Big Papi, and retire with some gas left in the tank, I see no reason to believe we'll have seen the last of TB12.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes a good quarterback being kept on the roster as insurance really is just here as insurance.

 

[XLIX]

You are wrong.
And he isn't "keeping him for one year".
He is keeping him in the event he is needed this year, or in the event something changes with Brady. Since Brady is 40 it's common sense to keep your insurance policy as long as possible.

It is far from "common sense" when the price you pay for keeping him is very high. In this case, while the Patriots are not paying much of a price in dollars, there was arguably a very large opportunity cost which was paid in order to keep Garoppolo.

 

[XLIX]

Sure he would to get the media off his back IF he planned on retiring. This is the same man that also said his wife asked him to retire after the Super Bowl then, in the same paragraph, said she was cool with him playing until he's 45.

I think the "Giselle wants me to retire" comment got way more attention than it deserved. I never once thought he was being serious. I always believed it was a tongue in cheek "oh Giselle wants me to retire ha ha ha" remark.

If Giselle really wanted him to retire and it was really something they discussed as man and wife, I think he would keep it private.

 

[XLIX]

Here's a great idea, the Patriots should get rid of the QB who wins 80%of his games and takes them to the Super Bowl every other year, and they should replace him with the guy who couldn't make it through two games when he was needed for four.

F.cking genius idea.

While I know the above is sarcasm, it's pathetic how many people here indeed want precisely that.

 

[SlowGettingUp]

Of course the normal laws of physics (including presumably aging) do not apply to GOATS:

 

[Huckleberry1]

Belichick always trades players just as they decline slightly

So I'm basing it on Belichick's history and lack of emotion regarding such decisions

Bullsh.t. I believe your more recent post that you started the thread to aggravate people. You guys made the exact same argument in October of 2014, it was BS then and it's BS now, and the fact that he's been the best player in football and won two more Lombardi's since then proves it. Belichick isn't going to dump the best player in the league for a guy who couldn't make it through two games, period.

 

[Ring 6]

It is far from "common sense" when the price you pay for keeping him is very high. In this case, while the Patriots are not paying much of a price in dollars, there was arguably a very large opportunity cost which was paid in order to keep Garoppolo.

"It is common sense to keep your insurance policy for as long as possible" is 100% accurate.
Arguing that someone will pay you more than the value you oerceive it to be worth is a separate point.
Also the opportunity cost (which none of us really know what it was) is not lost, it is delayed, again because the value that is worth more than keeping him will change dramatically if Brady suffers a serious injury or set back in the next 9 months.

The insurance value of garapollo to the patriots is probably higher than the starter value is to the browns.

 

[XLIX]

"It is common sense to keep your insurance policy for as long as possible" is 100% accurate.
Arguing that someone will pay you more than the value you oerceive it to be worth is a separate point.
Also the opportunity cost (which none of us really know what it was) is not lost, it is delayed, again because the value that is worth more than keeping him will change dramatically if Brady suffers a serious injury or set back in the next 9 months.

The insurance value of garapollo to the patriots is probably higher than the starter value is to the browns.

I agree with the above but this was hardly a "common sense" decision and a price has indeed been paid to keep Garoppolo here beside the actual salary.

 

[fnordcircle]

How this team handles Brady might be my breaking point as far as being a fan. 32 years of rooting for them with all my heart. If they do wrong by Brady I'll be at a crossroads.

Here's a question that's harder for me to answer than I realize. The Patriots trade Brady to any team. The following year that team comes to Foxboro to play the Pats. Who do you root for?

Forget all the Kraft drama, forget everything. I think I'd have a hard time not rooting for Tom.

 

[cupofjoe1962]

You are wrong.
And he isn't "keeping him for one year".
He is keeping him in the event he is needed this year, or in the event something changes with Brady. Since Brady is 40 it's common sense to keep your insurance policy as long as possible.
Brady will break down someday. Whatever the chance is that it will be in the next 9 months is the chance he is insuring against.

Or you could just make up a crazy answer say you interpret every nuetral or non-communal action to be proof of your conclusion and dismiss every fact that disputes your position because "belichick wouldn't do that".

Unless the wheels fall off in the next 9 months BB will keep the best QB in the NFL as his QB.

As a 31 year season ticket holder, I hope you are right & I am wrong.

I am sure you also thought they were going to cut Lawyer Milloy, & trade Richard Seymore & Logan Mankins.

The one thing I have learned over the years with Belichick, is he is smart and unpredictable.

Only time will tell for sure, but I respect your opinion.

 

[Love The Drake]

I think Tom comes down a few pegs without Belichick and Mcdaniels tutelage that's not any kind of slight against Brady but do you think Brady with say Rex Ryan or Mike Tomlin beats Grap with Belichick?
I don't and I love Tom I named my first born after him.
But I'm a big picture kind of guy the second Grap is a clear upgrade over Brady if that ever happens you need to make the toughest decision in my opinion any Professional sports team had to made.

 

[fightingirish595]

BB learned from kosar situation. Brady will get chance to leave on own terms

 

[Ring 6]

I agree with the above but this was hardly a "common sense" decision and a price has indeed been paid to keep Garoppolo here beside the actual salary.

Well it's common sense that when your QB is 40 years old you value your backup more.
The acceptable comp to trade the backup is a lot more when your QB is 40 than when he is 30.

There is a "cost" in keeping every player. I think the cost of keeping garoppolo was easily exceeded by the risk he abates.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

How this team handles Brady might be my breaking point as far as being a fan. 32 years of rooting for them with all my heart. If they do wrong by Brady I'll be at a crossroads.

Here's a question that's harder for me to answer than I realize. The Patriots trade Brady to any team. The following year that team comes to Foxboro to play the Pats. Who do you root for?

Forget all the Kraft drama, forget everything. I think I'd have a hard time not rooting for Tom.

For decades I was a laundry fan, but as a 2001 training camp Brady's Lady I share your emotions.
OK, if he went to the Jets (I know, I know) I'd root for him getting sacked every play, but teams like SF, Cleveland, etc. I'd have a hard time NOT rooting for him. Part of this is my waning interest in all things NYFL cartel.