Patriots: Robert Kraft has best response possible to Tom Brady winning Super Bowl with Bucs
The New England Patriots have been the talk of the offseason, which is rare for a team that’s largely been quiet in between the months of March and September.
But 2021 is a different story. The team simply needs to rid themselves of the 2020 stink, which resulted in a losing record for the first time in 20 years and a playoff-less campaign for the first time in over a decade.
Not making the postseason isn’t an option in 2020.
That’s why we’re seeing the team go through a true spending spree in March for what feels like the first time ever. The Pats have spent close to $275 million in total already and still have space for more additions.
Fans can thank Tom Brady’s departure for that.
Had he not left, the team probably wouldn’t be in this position. Had he not won a Super Bowl immediately with a new team, perhaps the organization’s urgency wouldn’t have been this heightened.
Speaking of Brady winning the Super Bowl, Patriots owner Robert Kraft had a spot-on response on that and also spoke about the team’s signings over the last week.
"I was really happy for him. He’s a great guy and he gave us 20 wonderful years, and he made the choice ... Look, I wasn’t that happy to see him leave, but we gave him that opportunity to do it. And if we’re not going to win ... he deserves it.” -- Robert Kraft on Tom Brady https://t.co/iggk6iccq4
— Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) March 22, 2021
The candor! You gotta respect it.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft commented on Tom Brady’s Super Bowl.
Of course Kraft wasn’t happy that the man who helped captain the dynasty ship left because he didn’t feel like he was valued enough. On top of that, the QB managed to flip the Brady-Belichick debate on its head after helping the Tampa Bay Buccaneers rip through the postseason, dispelling the franchise’s ineptitude since their last title in 2002.
Nonetheless, we’d venture to say most Patriots fans were happy for Brady.
The man did everything he could, elevated the franchise to arguably the best ever (at the moment) in the NFL, and was atop his game for the better part of 20 years.
Robert Kraft explains to @peter_king that the Patriots consciously decided to spend, spend, spend in free agency, even though we "always made fun of teams that spent a lot in the offseason." https://t.co/z4Prlq8zbR
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) March 22, 2021
Kraft’s admiration for Brady is well documented. And he’s right. Wouldn’t you rather see Brady win a Super Bowl elsewhere, than, say, watch the Steelers or Cowboys capture one? Think about it for a minute. Watching Brady flounder elsewhere would do no good for the Patriots. Watching him flourish just proves they had a special player for two decades who might go down as the best to ever do it.
Every run comes to an end. It’s just unfortunate that the Patriots’ glut of cap space came a year too late, or else Brady’s seventh ring could’ve been with New England.
