Let’s pretend.
What if, in October 2017, Patriots coach Bill Belichick offered to trade Tom Brady to the 49ers instead of Jimmy Garoppolo?
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According to Bleacher Report’s Matt Miller, that’s not a hypothetical.
Let’s set the Way Back machine to the fall of 2017. The Pats are coming off a Super Bowl loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Tom Brady is 40. And, Miller reports, Jimmy G. is a hot property.
Miller quotes a current director of player personnel as saying, “We were calling Bill once a week, I swear to God, trying to get Jimmy.