IN AN AIRPLANE OVER WARRENTON, Mo.— What would you pay for one year of Tom Brady at the tail end of his career? What would that period of free agency madness even look like?
There was a time during Brady’s initial battles with the aging process and football immortality that we could envision him perhaps defecting from the Patriots. (His father’s famous quote from 2015 about Brady’s career inevitably not ending well because time is undefeated certainly conjures images of him flailing about in a Panthers uniform, scrambling for his life in an unfamiliar offense.) But the unspoken coziness of his current situation suggests otherwise.