Report: Tom Brady ‘Would Divorce’ Bill Belichick If He Could

The latest book chronicling the life of head coach Bill Belichick puts the accent on the possibility that the New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady grew tired of his longtime coach.

A passage in Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time confirms this. A source close to the dynamic between Tom Brady and Belichick noted that the quarterback isn’t thrilled by the idea of playing for the 66-year-old anymore.

“If you’re married 18 years to a grouchy person who gets under your skin and never compliments you, after a while you want to divorce him,” the source told the book’s author and ESPN reporter Ian O’Connor. “Tom knows Bill is the best coach in the league, but he’s had enough of him. If Tom could, I think he would divorce him.”

Brady’s sister Nancy told everyone that the quarterback is concerned “Belichick will definitely do to him someday what the Colts did to Peyton Manning.”

The Patriots quarterback decided to skip organized team activities in may. “I plead… the Fifth!” he told Jim Gray during the offseason sitdown when talking about the lack of appreciation for his accomplishments in New England.

“But in the end, even if he wanted to, Brady could not walk away from the game, and he could not ask for a trade. The moment Belichick moved [Jimmy] Garoppolo to San Francisco, and banked on Brady’s oft-stated desire to play at least into his mid-forties, was the moment Brady was virtually locked into suiting up next season and beyond. Had he retired or requested a trade, he would have risked turning an adoring New England public into an angry mob,” O’Connor wrote.

Well, many would ask if this is somehow associated with the tension between Belichick and Brady. It seems like everything is fine at the moment, but things were really tight at one point.

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