“He’s going to be here,” Kraft said on the first day of training camp. “I love the guy. We’re so lucky to have him. I have an emotional attachment because I remember him coming in as the fourth quarterback, being a skinny beanpole of a kid.”
Kraft was unequivocal in his assurance that Brady would remain with New England.
“In my mind, he will be,” Kraft said. “One way or another. I believe he wants to be here. We want him here. We have a complicated situation we’re dealing with. There are a lot of forces at work. One way or another it will work out.”
When he was a rookie, Brady introduced himself to Kraft in a hallway at the old Foxboro Stadium and when Kraft replied that he knew who he was, Brady replied, “I’m the best decision this organization has ever made.”
That is certainly true —