Why Tom Brady leaving the Patriots for Chargers or Cowboys isn't far-fetched
LOS ANGELES - It's a game of deception and disguise, and Tom Brady plays it well. As free agency approaches, the pre-snap hints and clues of the NFL's greatest quarterback have the rest of the football world on a hair trigger. Everyone is trying to predict what the New England Patriots star will do next.
Brady is selling his mansion in Boston. He's gone.
He mugs for a photo at a Syracuse basketball game with Julian Edelman, who proclaims Brady will continue to be a teammate. He's staying.
He's captured, at the same game, on a FaceTime call with Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel, a former teammate. Gone.
He opened a big new TB12 store on Boylston Street in Back Bay. Staying.
Brady, 42, one season removed from winning his sixth Super Bowl, is seeking a multi-year deal that would enable him to play until 45.
He only knows winning. Just twice in the past 19 seasons have the Patriots failed to win a division title, and one of those seasons Brady sat out with a shredded knee.
Few athletes have been more emblematic of a team or city than Brady is of Boston. So in Beantown it was as welcome as a nor'easter when, in a recent live chat on Instagram, Brady's supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen,
