Tom Brady: NFL Home Wrecker, Toilet Clogger – if you’re Tom Brady, you must feel like you’re sitting in the catbird seat right now. For almost every other QB in the league, you have a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach because you are about to be replaced by none other than, Tom Terrific. Let’s take a look at some of the places he’s been rumored to be going. We’ll begin with the AFC West:
The Denver Broncos – some fans in Denver may think Brady is going to do his best impersonation of Peyton Manning and take their (no longer) stellar defense to the Super Bowl a couple of times before he calls it quits. Just not gonna happen.
The L.A. Chargers – the L.A. Times – has stated, “… in L.A., the Chargers have yet to create a buzz since relocating from San Diego in 2017, even when they advanced to the divisional round of the playoffs two years ago, losing at New England to the Brady-led Patriots. Would signing Brady supercharge ticket sales for the Chargers, or would it simply be a fleeting high?”
The Las Vegas Raiders – Fansided for the Las Vegas Raiders — has predicted that LV is a likely landing spot of Mr. Brady.
That pretty much encompasses the AFC West, with the exception of the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes of course. Now, who thinks that Tom Brady wants to go to an AFC West team and have to face Patrick twice per year anyway?
There are many other teams where Brady is predicted to be heading. Like… the Chiefs opponent in Super Bowl LIV, the San Francisco 49ers.
Deion Sanders: Tom Brady should play for San Francisco 49ers in 2020, Jimmy Garoppolo should return to New England Patriots https://t.co/iR2YsKlgho pic.twitter.com/0tTAiRMIPW
— Elmer Homero (@ElGranConocedor) March 1, 2020
If you were watching the NFL Combine, then you may have seen Deion Sanders suggesting that Tom Brady go to the San Francisco 49ers to replace QB Jimmy Garoppolo. The reasoning is that, had Brady been the 49ers QB then they would have easily won the game.
I think that’s a load of crap-o-la, which is what Tom Brady is basically offering the NFL right now: a hostage situation for every team with a glimmer of hope that he will come and save their ship. In the meantime, there are going to be umpteen other teams left holding the bag… the bag being their own puzzling QB situations. The biggest part of that puzzle will include a plethora of QBs who think they’re second rate… because that’s how teams are treating them right now.
Sanders thinks that Brady should sign with SF then Jimmy Garoppolo should be traded to the Patriots… and all’s well that ends well. Well… there is no wellness in that well of souls (I know, I know… I go carried away with the whole “well” thingy… oh well!). Take a look at a comparison of the two QBs:
The only critical stat which Brady is better at in 2019 is: INTs. All other stats, Jimmy G. is better at and he’s just finished his 3rd year as a starter, meaning, he should be improving still. Every analyst and regular viewer of NFL football has noticed how much Brady had fallen off last year and the Completion Percentage stats is the best measure of that. Would Brady tell you that this was because of the players he was throwing to? Probably, if you could get him to admit it. In fact, that’s basically the reason we’re even having this conversation: Tom Brady was/is unhappy with the team and Bill Belichick won’t accept that idea.
Are there other teams that have been rumored to have Brady coming to town? Sure, but like the Miami Dolphins, they just can’t offer him a team good enough to surround him with championship caliber players and coaches who will immediately challenge for the Lombardi.
In the meantime, half the league’s QBs are in stasis, awaiting the final outcome of master Brady’s decision.
A favorite landing spot for many with Nostradamus tendencies, is in Tennessee with the Titans. Because… Mike Vrabel is the coach there, and since Vrabel once played with Brady in New England, and because the Titans appear to have many of the pieces in place to appease him… it would seem a logical conclusion. Never mind that the Titans brought in Ryan Tannehill a year ago who took over for Marcus Mariota in midseason and took the team to the AFC Championship game.
Of course, the Cincinnati Bengals would love to have him too. Especially with Andy Dalton’s career possibly taking a turn there (Dalton has been rumored to be headed to New England). However, there’s a reason the Bengals are picking first overall in the 2020 NFL Draft: they’re a bad team, bad franchise, bad all over… and Tommy Boy isn’t going into a bad situation.
Can you imagine what the name “Tom Brady” has come to mean to half the league’s quarterbacks? He must be an interesting topic of discussion in those households… not to mention in the main offices of the team who seek to employ those QBs.
In a piece called, “Tom Brady Reportedly Headed Everywhere” written by Robin Lundberg for Sports Illustrated, she writes,
“What’s funny about this situation is that with Brady the interest around him right now is probably based more on his celebrity than current ability. The guy is definitely the Family Feud answer for greatest quarterback of all time, but would you really bet on Las Vegas to win the Super Bowl if he were to head there?”
That’s the conundrum in all of this: Tom Brady is staking his reputation, not his current statistics, on being signed to a high dollar deal once Free Agency arrives on March 16 (or 18).
Brady is also supposed to be going to the Dallas Cowboys according to some pundits. With Dak Prescott’s contract yet to be determined, the presence of an older, nearly washed up, ex-phenom, could mess up that whole situation… if he is to be given any real serious consideration. Knowing Jerry Jones, he’s looked into the possibility.
So, how many teams have we mentioned now? Ahh… I’ve lost track and for the most part, I don’t care. So, why write a piece on Brady? The reason is simple: because he affects so many other teams, teams in the AFC West specifically. If he winds up in the AFC West for the next two seasons, many aspects of the Chiefs moves could change as well… not to mention the number of tickets that will be flying off the market to watch Brady v Mahomes.
With the current state of affairs for NFL QBs right now, I can say without hesitation that I am so incredibly happy with the move the Chiefs made in 2017 to move up 17 spots in the draft — from 27 to 10 — to select:
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- the generational quarterback of this age
- the 2018 MVP and 2019 SB LIV MVP
- the most humble man of character to play QB
- the standard bearer for the next 15 years
- the player kids can look up to on and off the field
- the face of the NFL for the next decade…
… Patrick Mahomes II.
I’m looking forward to Free Agency mostly so that Tom Brady will sign with… whoever… and be off our screens and radars so much.
Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne
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