Patriots: Would you make Tom Brady’s Super Bowl trade for 19-0 season?

The New England Patriots have been entrenched in a transition period for the last year and they, thanks to an unprecedented free agent spending spree and a dominant showing in the draft, seem as though they’re ready to compete in the playoffs again.

Of course, this long-overdue roster overhaul kickstarted when Tom Brady rejected the opportunity to sign a new contract and left in free agency two offseasons ago. Since then, a handful of players from the Patriots’ prime dynasty years have left the organization.

Speaking of the dynasty, for as historic and groundbreaking as it was, the greatest blemish on it undoubtedly came in 2007, when New England fell just short of achieving perfection. We hate to bring up such a traumatizing memory, but it’s actually the crux of this story.

During the NFL Draft-A-Thon last weekend, Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe asked Brady whether he’d trade two championships to have finished 19-0 back in 2007. Seemingly without hesitating, the three-time MVP acknowledged that he would.

With that in mind, we can’t help but speculate whether fans in Foxborough would make this blockbuster trade.

Would Patriots fans make Tom Brady’s trade for a 19-0 season?

It’s duly noted that the Patriots would’ve gone down in history (and then some) had they finished undefeated in 2007 and capped it off with a championship over the Giants, but trading two Super Bowl rings? Well, it’s actually easy. If Brady is trading the undefeated season for two other SB’s, he’s essentially only losing one. It’s six rings with an undefeated season or seven rings without one.

If we were talking about one title, this wouldn’t even be a discussion. We’d steal the Lombardi Trophy from the Patriots Hall of Fame (not really) and hand it to Sharpe personally so as to literally complete the trade if that was the case.

If we could hand pick the rings — probably the least two exciting SB’s that resulted in Patriots championships — we might just do it. For example, we wouldn’t think twice about trading in the snooze fest that was the 13-3 victory over the Rams in 2019. It was the lowest scoring Super Bowl ever, so you can take that one for keeps.

As for the other? Well, we’ll give Patriots fans the luxury of picking that one. The bottom line is that the Super Bowl XLII loss to the underdog Giants, whom New England defeated in the final week of the regular season that year, is the signature shortcoming of Brady’s career.

Those have obviously been few and far between over the last 20 years, so it really wasn’t surprising that Brady would trade two rings (he’d still have five) to have been the first team since the 1972 Dolphins — though they only finished 14-0 — to achieve the ultimate perfect season.

What do you think, Patriots fans? Would you make the deal?

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