This Weekend We Found Out John Lynch Tried to Trade for Brady and Reports of Trouble Between Belichick & the GOAT are Fake News
John Lynch is a legend for trying to trade for Tom Brady ????
(via @JayGlazer) https://t.co/sggaVkeLOx
— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) November 5, 2017
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John Lynch: “‘Garoppolo’s off limits. Will you trade us Tom Brady?”
Bill Belichick: “What did you just ask me?’
Lynch: “I’m asking would you trade us Tom Brady? You said Garoppolo’s off limits.”
Belichick: “Did you just ask me if you’d trade Tom Brady? Did you just ask me if I’d trade the greatest quarterback of all time?”
Brady on WEEI, talking about a Golf Channel reporter saying his “camp” thought he could be traded: “I don’t even know who my ‘camp’ is. … I think it’s the way it has always been. I think he is a great coach and there is obviously no coach I would rather play for. I love playing for this team and I’ve tried to do it for a long time and I have done it for a long time. I enjoy doing it and hopefully I can do it for a long time.”
And there we have it. Another conspiracy theory debunked. When it comes to this team, never underestimate the ability of the press to spin everything as a negative. Only with the Patriots of the 21st century could someone take a thing like trading both backup quarterbacks in the same season as anything but a ringing, total and complete endorsement of the starting quarterback. And yet they did. This wasn’t Belichick understanding that his best chance to win more Super Bowls is to stick with the 40-year-old. It was Belichick telling his friends his goal is to win one without Brady. It was the owner ordering a code red on Jimmy Garoppolo to keep the GOAT, over his coach’s objection. It was the kids from Camp Brady saying his relationship with Belichick is not good and his loyalty it to Mr. Kraft. Well, surprise. That bullshit narrative barely made it to the weekend, and it didn’t make it out. Myth: Busted.
And one thing is for certain out of this, and it’s that John Lynch has a man-sized pair of balls on him. Seriously, you have to admire a guy who’s barely been on the job a year, casually asking the most cold-blooded deal maker in the history of the GM game if he’d trade the greatest player ever. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. As Larry David would put it, no prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp ever got laid without making the first move. Fortunately, Belichick loves Lynch. If you remember Lynch’s last NFL training camp, Belichick brought him in to try him in that Big Nickel role currently being filled by Pat Chung. And on the first round of cuts he called Lynch into his office and said, “You’re a great safety. A great safety. But you’re a terrible linebacker.” And Lynch was gone. If they didn’t have that kind of honesty in their relationship … if it were some other GM … Belichick would have choked him out with his Sith Lord powers.
But the only thing that really matters is the best there ever was in their respective fields never wanted to work with anyone else. And they won’t be any time in the near and distant future. That, and don’t believe anything you read about this team unless you read it right here.