You don’t win 78 percent of your games over 10 years by studying yesterday’s scores or tomorrow’s predictions or by listening to the skeptics who have been saying you’re past it for a decade. If they have shown one quality over the past 20 years, it’s concentration in the face of threat. In the 2017 season when Brady, Belichick and Kraft were supposedly at one another’s throats but made another Super Bowl anyway. The Patriots lost three of their last five games; they usually put all the pieces together in the closing stretch. Kraft long has said he wants to see Brady finish his career as a Patriot, but Brady could demand more money than the team is willing to pay to a 43-year-old.

Source: Washington Post January 03, 2020 15:34 UTC