Here’s more on how former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick reacted when superstar Tom Brady left the organization to sign as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in March 2020.Patriots insider Tom E.
NBC Sports Boston’s Curran explains in a column published Sunday. “Even when the two met just days before Brady’s contract expired, sources said Belichick said the Patriots couldn’t raise the salary cap above $22.5 million. When Brady left for Tampa Bay, signed him to a two-year contract.
He said he did, and that all $50 million guaranteed was what he asked for from the Patriots. Additionally, a source told Curran that after New England State’s January 2020 playoff loss to Tennessee, Belichick “talked to Brady as if he was about to become a free agent and not yet with the team “. Titanium.
Of course, Brady led the Buccaneers to a Super Bowl LV victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in his first season in Tampa Bay and should have won the MVP award in 2021 over then-Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
The Brady-less campaign saw Belichick miss the postseason three times in four years before Patriots owner Robert Kraft decided to go in a different direction. “The hardest thing for Robert Kraft was watching Brady play like a master in Tampa and win another Super Bowl,” Curran wrote.
“How can a declining player go to a new team and win a Super Bowl in one year?” he believed.Brady wasn’t his dominant presence in the fall of 2022 for a number of reasons, but he still helped the Buccaneers to the NFC South title. Last season, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan reportedly wanted Brady to start Super Bowl LVIII QB1 Brock Purdy.
As for Belichick, it appears he won’t be able to interview for an NFL head coaching job with any team other than the Atlanta Falcons after leaving New England. Letting Brady go for nothing early in 2020 may ultimately be the biggest mistake the NFL’s all-time greatest coach has made during his career.
