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The Key to the Patriots’ Latest Saga: Bill Belichick and Tom Brady Really Need to Talk

Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports (Belichick); Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports (Brady); Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports (Taylor)

INDIANAPOLIS – Tom Brady and Bill Belichick need to talk. For their own good. For the good of other quarterback-uncertain teams. And for the good of the rest of us, too.

Here at the NFL’s annual scouting combine, the convention center hallways, hotel lobbies, city skywalks and barroom corners were abuzz with a simple question: What is Tom Brady going to do? The 42-year-old’s impending free agency swallowed the week’s news cycle whole in a way we haven’t seen since Peyton Manning was in a slightly different spot eight years ago.