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Daily Cover: How Did Joe Montana's Time With the Chiefs Lay the Blueprint for Tom Brady's Upcoming Season With the Buccaneers?

As Tom Brady moves on from the only franchise he’s ever known, he can learn a lot from another iconic QB who made a late-career switch: Joe Montana, who thrived in his two-season stint with the Chiefs.

Joe Montana’s legacy in Kansas City began with a rancid smell wafting through the offensive meeting room.

It brought to mind rotten eggs, or, less diplomatically, a fart, cruel and penetrating enough to stand out amid a group of sweaty grown men enduring merciless two-a-days in the Missouri heat. It was so putrid and unrelenting that the meeting, the unit’s first, was called off and the room was evacuated.