Before being given the green light on a seminal Jimmy Garoppolo trade, John Lynch discussed the Patriots’ other prominent quarterback with Bill Belichick. It was not a long conversation.
The then-first-year 49ers GM did not receive the answer he wanted regarding a Garoppolo deal when he spoke will Belichick early in the 2017 offseason, and he said he then asked if the Patriots would trade Tom Brady.
“Yeah, we were calling about Jimmy and we did have that conversation and got quickly rebuffed,” Lynch said of the Brady trade inquiry during an appearance on Barstool Sports’ Pardon My Take podcast (via the San Francisco Chronicle). “I figured what the heck, you gotta take your shot right? You can’t score if you don’t shoot, so I had to summon up the courage. Bill laughed at me and basically hung up on me. But hey, I took my shot.”
Kyle Shanahan was told at the 2017 Combine Garoppolo wasn’t available, but at the trade deadline, he received a phone call from Belichick and quickly agreed to send the Patriots a second-rounder for the player who is now entrenched as the 49ers’ quarterback of the future. Shanahan had Kirk Cousins on his radar prior to that move.
Brady enters his 19th season with the Patriots and is set to start Week 1 for a 17th straight season. This figures to be an amusing footnote associated with Lynch’s GM legacy.
Everybody knows this
Lol I’m waiting on the replies that say that Lynch is an “idiot” for asking. It’s pretty obvious it was a negotiation tactic and it worked.
If a QB w/ no starts commanded a 2nd round pick, what does a 1st ballot HoF cost?
well he had more than 0 starts so…
14 1st round picks and the GMs first born.
When you factor in Jimmy G has many more years left than Tom Brady, their values may be closer than most people realize. Who would you rather have going forward, not backwards?
He is also over 40
The Patsies told the 49ers: “You can’t have our prima donna.”
That Prima Donna is the best QB of all time, so there’s that…
Best QB of this era. There is no such thing as the “best QB of all time” b/c you can’t compare QBs when the game as evolved and changed so much over time to the point where even the ball they play w/ is significantly different from the one they used in previous eras.
Era…ever…still one of the best.
No doubt. A first ballot HoFer, obviously.
Nerd
I thought Joe Montana had been retired for a long time now!
It’s encouraging to know that at least one GM is honest enough with team fans to admit he has had a delusional moment or two.
As crazy as it sounds I would have considered it depending on what they were offering. The future would look a lot brighter with Jimmy and a few 1st round draft picks in NE.
Two firsts (18 and 19) and a 3rd sounds about right. Probably for Brady, an 18 6th and a 19 5th. I’d do just two first rounders if they got one in like 2022 and hope the 9ers suck again, but honestly I was in the trade Brady camp. I like Garoppolo, and I was a Lauletta/Rudolph fan as well, so I was bummed things shook out the way they did. I thought the extra picks would’ve been valuable enough to justify trading him, especially considering some of the talent that was available.
Shooters shoot
Didn’t we already know this
Someone just listened to Monday’s Pardon My Take.
Even if Bill would have signed off, no way in hell would Kraft allow it.
And if by some miracle, Kraft did allow it, Brady could always retire.