you think brady would have signed for 16 mil, with no weapons available?
Lets say the patriots have 16 million at the start, and dont franchise thuney.
the team has no qb, a hole at guard, a hole at WR 1, 3, no te, a RB that regressed.
Tom wants 25million minimum, with his dead cap hit that means if we go 2 years 25 mil guarenteed in both his cap hit is what around 38 million for 2020?
Okay so we cook the books make his salary vet minimum, the rest is a bonus, that makes his 2020 cap hit somewhere north of 25 million(dead cap + proration of the bonus. this takes up all of the available cap space.
So we've signed our qb. The one that *****ed and complained all season about a lack of weapons, despite the team bring in the best players they could with the resources they had.
We now have TB, no offensive weapons, holes on the o-line. and 1 million in cap space.
Who are you cutting?
Remember this is PRE-COVID-Optout.
Don't use hindsight here. which defense players are you cutting, to make enough cap space for the patriots to go out and sign the best available free agent recievers brady is going to want?
Are you bringing back antonio brown? Because brady is going to complain about that all season again.
Brady leaving wasn't just about the money. He wanted to go to a team where he could pad his stats. There is nothing wrong with it, but call a spade a spade., stop with this ********, the patriots had the money to sign him non-sense. BRADY DIDN'T WANT TO BE ON THIS TEAM