Peter King said he should have realized back in January that Tom Brady was leaving New England.
The longtime Sports Illustrated columnist and current NBC Sports writer King, speaking on “Slow News Day” with The Ringer’s Kevin Clark, referenced a 10-minute conversation he had with the quarterback after the Patriots lost to the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Wild Card round last season. King said Brady seemed particularly “despondent” – even more so than he typically would have been after a deflating playoff loss.
“If I had been smart, which I wasn’t, I would have come out of that room and said, ‘I do not think Tom Brady is going to be back with the Patriots,'” King told Clark in a video that was released Tuesday.