The bolded is probably true, though I thought/hoped with some creative cap management/roster moves, and a good draft, they might have had a chance to make one more run. But, the overall sentiment of your post is exactly where I am. Brady's consistently stated desire to play past an age where it makes good business sense to give out multi-year, high dollar guaranteed contracts made this inevitable. Bill just wasn't going to roll that way. What a glorious, glorious ride the last two decades have been. It will never be duplicated. I wouldn't trade a minute of it, and it ending this way doesn't tarnish it one bit for me.I don't get being mad at Brady or BB. The last 20 years don't happen without BOTH of them. I'm 46 and I've been a Patriots fan for as long as I can remember, heading out to Bryant college every year to watch camp and collect autographs. I love Tom Brady. Tom Fucking Brady. He's a goddamn legend. And so is BB. It was time to move on. Nostalgia is for fans, not for parties directly involved.
This team wasn't winning a Super Bowl with or without Brady this year. Keeping him for nostalgia, at the detriment of the future, isn't how BB is wired. The breakup was inevitable. I just feel incredibly fortunate to have been able to watch and appreciate the last 20 years.
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