The Patriots saw their offense decline considerably last season. The team cycled through wideouts and did not come especially close to replacing Rob Gronkowski. With Tom Brady on the doorstep of free agency, this certainly marks an unusual time for the 11-time reigning AFC East champions.
New England is looking into potential trades for wide receivers and/or tight ends, Albert Breer of SI.com notes, perhaps to help entice Brady to return. A trade-happy franchise during more stable offseasons, the Pats exploring deals should not necessarily surprise. But it could pertain to their quarterback situation.
Brady worked with either Randy Moss or Gronkowski from 2007-2018 and had high-end Gronk replacement Martellus Bennett in the fold in 2016. But the Pats struggled for much of last season, failing to bring in a viable Gronk successor and seeing both Antonio Brown and Josh Gordon in uniform for a short time. Julian Edelman remains under contract, going into his age-34 season, and N’Keal Harry will ideally be available for the first half of the 2020 slate. But Brady has expressed a desire to be surrounded with more talent, per Breer, and the Patriots are now competing with other teams for their 19-year starting quarterback.
The Patriots — who acquired Bennett, Gordon, Phillip Dorsett and Brandin Cooks via trades in recent years — have just one week before the legal tampering period. It is also possible the Pats will use the trade market to upgrade around a Brady replacement. But for now, they are still interested in re-signing the future Hall of Famer.
The Titans and Chargers remain in the mix for Brady, with a few other teams likely looming with some degree of interest. The 49ers rumors that emerged last week were driven more by the Brady camp than the 49ers, Breer adds. While the Raiders may be pivoting to a cheaper quarterback option, Breer notes the Bolts are still in this chase. They have Keenan Allen and Mike Williams under contract and are expected to use their franchise tag on Hunter Henry, thus taking away a potential free agent option for the Patriots.
what if its all a rouse and Brady is going to meet with all these other teams to do recon?? yea nice try buddy
He shows up to meetings w prospective GMs and owners wearing that gigantic sombrero with the camera in it that homer Simpson wore
I love that episode. One of the best.
Dynamite Drop in Monty: DOH!!!!
Hes more focused on 199 productions than playing football
I can’t wait till he signs somewhere, really don’t care with who. I’m just sick of hearing about it everyday.
Foreal. Especially considering he will hold up the entire QB market this offseason. Most all other movement will wait for his domino to fall. And he will prob revel in it.
Tired of hearing about it too. sign somewhere, anywhere.
You do realize he is holding up nothing. Legally, he can’t sign anywhere right now. And as far as I know, Brady hasn’t said more than two words about it. If you want to complain about someone…blame the people in the media harping on it.
‘The 49ers rumors that emerged last week were driven more by the Brady camp than the 49ers, Breer adds.’
Color me shocked that a team who was within a few points of winning the Super Bowl isn’t interested in replacing their starting QB who is already under an expensive contract with someone who is 14 (!!!) years older, played markedly worse last year, and will require more annual money.
There are only 3-4 teams that make sense with Brady. Please stop publishing nonsense rumors with no legitimate sources behind them just to get clicks. You posted one about Brady going to the Giants that had no sources and no legitimacy a week or so ago (it also makes no sense, either).
The MLB rumors site posts legitimate rumors and gets way more traffic. I’ve had friends tell me they never visit this site because you’ll just post anything. Just some food for thought, but I don’t think you realize the damage you do to your site when you post clickbait like this (another example is the endless Antonio Brown posts).
Sorry for the rant.
Actually, let me rant a little further because I went back and read your initial ‘Brady to the 49ers’ article. There are no sources and your first paragraph ends with:
‘However, at this time, there are no indications that the 49ers are interested in replacing Jimmy Garoppolo with Brady, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com ‘
Like, why did you even post it? It was pure speculation based on nothing. Again, sorry for the rant, but please do better.
This salad has not nearly enough croutons
Replace Jimmy G with a backup QB and the 49ers still make (and lose) the Super Bowl last season. His contract is whack, but so are the Browns.
i dont know if Brady to the Giants makes no sense at all. Do you remember what the Giants did when they drafted Eli? They had signed Kurt Warner to a 1 yr deal with option for a 2nd year. Brady could be a good mentor if he takes on that role for a year for the team he could never beat.
Brady to NY would also be a big market for his wife as well so not completely out of the realm, but hard to see him sharing stadium with the Jets. Would be a nice little wrinkle for the annual Jet Giant game though.
For clicks…no offense to the site but that’s how they generate income. I do wish they would do more vetting from their writers before some of the articles get published.
Yep and nothing factual until free agency opens so what are theh supposed to do?
I’m fine with click bait. I go on here to clear my mind. No reason to take it so serious.
Theres fbook and twitter if ur looking to argue
The real question is, when Brady signs with the Chargers, will the Chargers unretire Stan Humphrey’s #12???