WEEI.com: Brady: I'm Not Worried About Contract

[Christopher_Price]

Here's today's offering -- my take on the Brady contract talk from Tuesday:

Christopher Price | Brady: I'm Not Worried About Contract

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Thanks for restating this:

“To be the highest-paid, or anything like that, is not going to make me feel any better,” he told Sports Illustrated in 2005. “That’s not what makes me happy. In this game, the more one player gets, the more he takes away from what others can get. Is it going to make me feel any better to make an extra million, which, after taxes, is about $500,000? That million might be more important to the team.”

I doubt his mindset has changed. This team did in fact invest in offense after he signed that deal. They didn't keep Branch, which I think stung Brady at the time, but that was about not overpaying and I know he gets that too. He has said in the past that their financial discipline is to be admired, even if it stings you from time to time.

He'll get his and it will be in range, just not the bar setter that some fear and others can't fathom him not demanding.

 

[wilcoy]

With the money his wife makes plus his salary what would an extra few million possibly buy them that they can't already afford. He loves the game and winning. You dont go back in the stats and look up who made the most you go back an see who won the most. At the end of a pro career that is all that matters. Besides with his gift of saying the right thing a career in politics awaits him after foorball, and we know they never suffer for extra income.