It has been a week since Tom Brady let New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft know that he wanted to meet, then went to Kraft’s home last Monday night and told his boss of two decades that he was moving on. The Patriots have had that long to transform themselves into a landing spot in the NFL-wide game of musical chairs being played by prominent quarterbacks and to make a headline-grabbing move to put Brady’s successor in place.
They haven’t done it. They stood by and watched while Teddy Bridgewater, Nick Foles and Philip Rivers went elsewhere. They haven’t traded for Andy Dalton or Cam Newton.