TAMPA — More than 300 days ago, one month into the last NFL season, Tom Brady was struggling to adapt to his first new team in two decades of professional football. Dak Prescott was piloting the top offense in the league for a team that still wasn’t winning. On Oct. 8, Brady and the Bucs fell in Chicago on a Thursday night, their grand experiment in aging quarterbacks off to a muddled 3–2 start. Three days later, the Cowboys lost Prescott for the season, when he broke his ankle, the impact so violent his right foot bent sideways, toward the sideline.
The Brady-Dak Duel Was 11 Months in the Making
