Everyone says Tom Brady is coming back to the New England Patriots, except, officially, Tom Brady.
This hasn’t mattered much across the slow burn following February’s Super Bowl loss to Philadelphia. Rob Gronkowski has yet to commit to a return either and for a stretch there, no one was 100 percent about Bill Belichick either.
Cryptic and coy is always popular in New England, which has long done things (quite successfully) its own way. Now the Patriots are staring down next week’s NFL draft and the mindset in Foxborough may finally reveal itself.