Kurt Warner weighs in on Tom Brady free agency situation

Hall of Famer Kurt Warner recently spoke publicly about his opinions on Tom Brady’s impending free agency — and he didn’t hold back.

Kurt Warner has never been shy to speak his mind.

The longtime starting quarterback has built a terrific career for himself as a television analyst and football media personality since retiring from the game. He’s also been somewhat of a reliable defender of Tom Brady over the years, coming to the defense of his Super Bowl 36 counterpart when he feels like Brady is getting disrespected by his fellow media members.

Now, Warner is speaking openly and candidly about Brady’s much-ballyhooed free agency situation — and he’s not holding anything back.

“I just think there’s a lot to lose here if you’re Tom Brady going somewhere else,” Warner told USA Today’s Nate Davis.

Warner elaborated:

"“It’s not always easy to change that culture and think it can be done overnight… It’s hard to do that — to think you’re just gonna pick up where you left off in a system you’ve been in for 18 years… It’s a process everywhere you go. It might look really good on the outside, but you know what you know in New England.”"

Warner has previously been open about his opinion that he thinks Brady should remain with the New England Patriots.

Joe Montana, Brady’s childhood idol, was another prolific quarterback who expressed his desire to see Brady remain with the Patriots.

And just this week, John Elway became the latest Hall of Fame signal-caller to come out in favor of Brady staying with the Pats — even if it goes against his own best interests as the GM of the Denver Broncos (Elway reportedly said he thought it was “good” for the NFL for Brady to retire a Patriot).

If Brady does decide ultimately to sign with another team — and/or if the Patriots decide they don’t want him back — Warner had some advice for TB12 about where not  to go in 2020 and beyond.

"“I still don’t look to go to the Raiders or the Chargers and have to compete against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs twice every year just to win my division. I don’t want to have to go through the other great quarterback in the AFC right now twice a year and then possibly have to be the wild card. Just from that standpoint alone, I probably look at a team like the Titans, and I say to myself, ‘Well, they were right there last year, and they’ve got some pieces we can build off of.’ That’s probably, in my mind, the best situation of those three that I’m hearing about.”"

It will be interesting to see whether or not Brady takes any of this advice, or if he decides to march off the beat of his own drum. Only time will tell, of course — but we’re getting closer each and every day to finally receiving some conclusion on this situation, one way or another.