Niners let Montana go to Kansas City in the end so Young could rise. Packers let Favre go so Rodgers could come into his own. Both were still good but teams chose long term success over the emotion of "we can't let our hall of fame QB walk away". Patriots went the other way. Apparantly rumor has it that Brady was antagonistic about Garoppolo and Kraft directed Belichick to trade him to keep Brady happy, which upset Belichick. But he did it. So they keep their old guy, who eventually will look old, it's inevitable and when it happens it will be FAST and UGLY. And they have no backup. Bummer for them.
I can’t believe the Pats did that. That’s the only story about Brady that kind of dings him for me a bit, but I still like him.
The Niners organization being only a shell of its former self, maybe the Pats may still have a chance of attracting Garoppolo back, especially if the Pats lose the Super Bowl.
No the Niners let Montana go because he was starting to slip and they had a successor lined up. The Packers let Favre go because they’d drafted Rodgers but he only had 1 year left on his rookie contract and they needed to know if they had their QB of the future or not and Favre was screwing them over with the “will I/ won’t I”, the team chose to no longer be held hostage. The Pats let Garappolo go because they don’t feel they need to replace Brady yet, and they were going to lose him anyway (contract ended this season, no way he was going to sign for low money to stay a backup). By the time Brady falls off they’ll have a backup, remember he WASN’T supposed to be the guy to run Bledsoe out of town, just a 6th round draft pick nobody expected anything from. The Pats know talent.