COMMENTARY
This isn’t a prediction. This is a promise.
Jarrett Stidham is going to be a very good quarterback for the New England Patriots, and it will happen this coming season (I know, if there is one) without much suspense or a significant learning curve.
We’ll miss Tom Brady, because he was Tom Brady. But we’re going to get used to having Stidham helming the Patriots offense fast, and for satisfying reasons.
It would not shock me — in fact, I’ll go ahead and predict it — that by season’s end, you, the reasonable fan, will prefer him over every other starting quarterback in the AFC East.