ESPN senior writer Seth Wickersham says he “absolutely” stands by his reporting after his recent feature on Tom Brady was criticized by Patriots coach Bill Belichick.
In last week’s ESPN The Magazine cover story, Wickersham and fellow writer Tom Junod reported, among other things, that Belichick was confident he could win a Super Bowl with former backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and that the Patriots coach wanted to coach long enough to “establish a truly dynastic succession.”
What was not included in their article was a different report last week by an NBC journalist that Brady’s “camp” thought the quarterback might be traded after this year and that his relationship with Belichick was “not great.