• 49ers mulled Tom Brady gamble for ‘a day or two’: GM John Lynch

    49ers mulled Tom Brady gamble for ‘a day or two’: GM John Lynch

    On the heels of a crushing Super Bowl defeat, 49ers general manager John Lynch admitted his eyes wandered when the Greatest Of All Time hit the NFL free-agency market. “When you’re talking about one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time with Tom Brady, of course you’re going to have some internal discussion,” Lynch told …
  • Julian Edelman flip-flops on Tom Brady follows after Rob Gronkowski trade

    Julian Edelman flip-flops on Tom Brady follows after Rob Gronkowski trade

    And then there was one. Julian Edelman remains on the Patriots roster as of Wednesday, following Tuesday’s shocking trade of Rob Gronkowski to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where the once-retired tight end will reunite with former quarterback Tom Brady. Brady first reacted to the news on social media and it seems Edelman did, too. As …
  • Rob Gronkowski ‘had Belichick over a barrel’ before huge trade

    Rob Gronkowski ‘had Belichick over a barrel’ before huge trade

    A fourth-round pick?! That’s all the New England Patriots were able to acquire for Rob Gronkowski on Tuesday, when they traded perhaps the best tight end in NFL history to Tom Brady’s Buccaneers. It seems Bill Belichick and the Patriots had no other options but to pull the trigger on the deal that also featured …
  • Patriots trading Rob Gronkowski to Tom Brady’s Buccaneers in shocking return

    Patriots trading Rob Gronkowski to Tom Brady’s Buccaneers in shocking return

    Rob Gronkowski is returning to his old quarterback, not his old team. In a shocking move Tuesday, the New England Patriots traded Gronkowski to the Buccaneers, along with a seventh-round pick in this week’s draft, for a fourth-rounder, according to ESPN. The deal came together after Gronkowski alerted the Patriots he wanted to return to …
  • Tom Brady kicked out of Tampa park for coronavirus violation

    Tom Brady kicked out of Tampa park for coronavirus violation

    Tom Brady apparently needs to work on his coronavirus compliance. The newly minted Buccaneers quarterback was booted for working in a Tampa park that was closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, Tampa Mayor Jane Casto said. She talked about the incident while on a Facebook Live session with St. Petersburg mayor Rick Kriseman on Monday. …
  • Tom Brady is no longer the NFL’s top salesman

    Tom Brady is no longer the NFL’s top salesman

    Patrick Mahomes may have replaced Tom Brady as the premier quarterback in the NFL, and now he has taken over as the league’s top merchandise seller, too. The Chiefs’ dynamic quarterback is No. 1 in “officially licensed player-identified merchandise, including jerseys, trading cards, wall decals, T-shirt and bobbleheads,” according to Variety, after Brady was at …
  • Patriots’ interest in Jalen Hurts surfaces in Tom Brady reversal

    Patriots’ interest in Jalen Hurts surfaces in Tom Brady reversal

    Tom Brady is gone and the New England Patriots don’t have a long-term replacement in place. Could dual-threat quarterback Jalen Hurts, out of the Lamar Jackson mold and a completely different type of quarterback than Brady, be the answer? ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. believes the Patriots could look to the former Oklahoma and Alabama …
  • Ex-Patriot Ben Watson: Jarrett Stidham can be team’s QB answer

    Ex-Patriot Ben Watson: Jarrett Stidham can be team’s QB answer

    It’s a new dawn in Foxborough, and the big question for the Patriots is who will succeed six-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady, who is now quarterbacking the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after 20 years in New England. As the 2020 NFL Draft — which begins Thursday — gets closer, speculation has increased about whether the …
  • Buccaneers’ Tom Brady still isn’t over his famous NFL Draft snub

    Buccaneers’ Tom Brady still isn’t over his famous NFL Draft snub

    Tom Brady just won’t let it go – maybe that’s why he has six Super Bowl rings. The Buccaneers quarterback commemorated the 20-year anniversary of him being selected in the sixth round by the Patriots in the 2000 NFL Draft – 199th overall – by posting the list of signal-callers taken ahead of him to …
  • Jets mailbag: How vulnerable are the Patriots right now?

    Jets mailbag: How vulnerable are the Patriots right now?

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Jets. Can the Jets beat out the Patriots this year? — Patrick Grant With Tom Brady in Tampa, can …