Tom Brady to Cowboys?

I was certain all season that he was gone, now I'm starting to think he'll come back. Which means he's actually going to go. So much speculation on where he'd want to go, but most people aren't taking into consideration the Pats might not want him back. Sure you can bring in a bunch of weapons, but Belichick isn't one to mortgage the future for the present. You can build around a younger guy just as easily. No he won't be Tom Brady, but will 43 year old Brady be Brady? Why risk it? Why go through this circus again a year from now? I think from their perspective it's better to move on sooner than later.

As a fan I want him back. But I don't think it's crazy or disrespectful if they decide to move on.

Although it would be kind of funny to see Brady sign with LAC, and then Rivers sign with the Pats.

It would effectively be a trade.

Darnold will really be seeing ghosts then.  Seriously though, I've heard all kinds of crazy theories.  Miami, LA, Chicago, Tennessee, Dallas?  None of those spots really make sense for either side.  Well, maybe Miami because they need to draft a QB so maybe a year watching Brady wouldn't hurt.  But Brady historically doesn't play well there.  Schefter the other day said if Brady leaves NE, it'll be to a place nobody has thought of yet.  Maybe he knows something we don't.  

Then you have the people saying NE is really the only good fit for him at this point; but as I laid out in my previous post, I don't even know if they are a good fit anymore.  They certainly approached this past season as if they were ready to move on from Brady.  I guarantee Belichick is ready to move on, and Kraft not budging on Brady's contract demands last year tells me which way he's leaning. 

Brady wants one more season to prove he still has it.  At this point I guess nothing would surprise me.  Do the Battlehawks have a QB yet?    

One of the other F/A QBs?  Who wants to be the guy who follows Brady, though?  It all depends on where they think they are in terms of competing for a championship.  They fell apart down the stretch after having the easiest schedule I can remember a team having.  What's it going to be like against tougher competition?  In my opinion without an elite QB this team has no shot at competing for a title.  That 'elite defense' got torched by the three QBs they would've possibly faced in the AFC had they advanced in the playoffs.  An aging Brady with a beat up line and depleted weapons wasn't the answer this season, will an older Brady be a significant upgrade?  Andy Dalton?  Marcus Mariota?

They've been together so long that both sides are in no man's land.  I don't see a better fit elsewhere for Brady that would be willing to bet the farm on him.  I don't see an available QB that would be an upgrade for your title hopes if you're the Patriots.       

I've heard this floated out there and sadly I can't rule it out.  This is the guy who traded Garoppolo for a bag of balls because he was mad Kraft wouldn't move on from Brady.  They never addressed the TE position in the offseason and took a flyer on a lunatic at WR that lasted all of a week.  And letting the ball bounce to the 1 yard line with the season on the line with barely any time left sure makes it seem like you wanted to make it impossible to win that game.

Still, I just think it was a perfect storm of circumstances that led to the offense going to hell.  Gronk's retirement.  Edelman's laundry list of injuries.  They found a way to run the ball last post season and they hoped it would carry over.  It didn't.  The injuries to David Andrews, Wynn and Develin were devastating to the line's ability to run block or keep the pocket clean for an aging QB who wasn't patient enough with his rookie WRs.  Dorsett suddenly couldn't get open.  Sanu was a bust.  

If you look back to the pre-season, it suddenly looked like they had more weapons than they knew what to do with, hence the trade of Thomas to the Jets.  Then everything fell apart.  Belichick didn't do Brady any favors with some of his decisions, but I'll stop short of accusing him of outright sabotage.    

The difference being the standards here at this point are much higher than other places, so everything is magnified.  It's harder to sell to your fanbase that moving on from a 6 time SB winner is the best thing to do.  Meanwhile your QB is literally my age, so from a business standpoint how do you sell to yourself that keeping him is the best possible move?   

You rightly to do so. We can't say what is really going on behind the closed doors or in their minds. But I am in the team Brady now.

I say you draft a quarterback and let him sit for two years. Watch Brady. Be in the meetings. See how he breaks down film. See how he leads a locker room.

Then you'll really have your QB of the future. As opposed to hoping you strike gold.

You'd also have to believe that Dak is done in Dallas. There'd be no coming back from benching him.