Back in January, USA Today’s Henry McKenna talked about the possibilities: Rodgers to the Patriots Has Been Discussed Beforeīefore the Patriots splurged on free-agent talent this offseason, the speculation around Rodgers landing in New England had already begun. And the answer isn’t in trading up in this draft. But if you’re the Patriots, you want to keep your options open as long as you can until the answer is revealed. What happened with Brady will happen with Rodgers just like it happened with Rodgers’ predecessor, Brett Favre and Brady’s predecessor, Drew Bledsoe. Is that a cautionary tale for Green Bay? If it is and the Packers decide to move Rodgers, would Belichick be interested? Would it be an admission that the team stubbed its toe with Brady? Or has the team improved sufficiently in key offensive areas so that it makes sense to spend on a player like Rodgers? Brady is the greatest jockey of all time, but he wasn’t winning any races with that nag of an offense the Patriots had in 2019 or 2020 and he knew it. We have to find an actor that can pull off both the physicality and vulnerability of Brady.Brady beat back the Garoppolo challenge with Super Bowl wins but the Patriots didn’t fold their tent and commit to him. Sherman said that while he can’t elaborate on top contenders to play Brady, he promised that “it won’t be a Boston guy –- not Wahlberg or Damon. The authors are currently meeting with studio heads and potential lead actors for an adaptation of “12”. The duo are also behind the stories of the hit movies 'The Finest Hours' and 'Patriots Day.' '12' is Sherman and Wedge's third book together. Sherman, who has worked extensively with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation on other investigations, said he had a harder time extracting information on the Deflategate story than during his work with those organizations. Conversely we didn’t find anything that exonerated it.' 'If we had found some smoking gun that implicated him – we would have reported that. “I followed the facts where they took me,' he said. Wedge, who has Boston roots and described himself as both a Patriots and a Brady fan, said it didn’t affect his work as a journalist on the book. Sherman went on to say that, at most, he views Brady as an unwitting co-conspirator, but believes that the Patriots equipment guys had to have known that they were in violation of NFL policy. “His minor infraction became a capital murder case,” Sherman said in the ABC News interview. 'He thought he would address it once and move on.' “Tom gave the press conference because he didn’t think the situation was a big deal and that he hadn’t done anything wrong,” Smith, the NFL players union representative, told the authors for the book. When asked if he was a cheater, the quarterback responded, “I don’t believe so.” “I didn’t alter the ball in any way,” Brady told reporters at the press conference, according to the book. Sherman and Wedge said that Brady completely ignored advice from the Patriots and the NFL Players Association not to speak out in a press conference. Soon after the initial NFL investigation began in 2015, Brady gave a pre-Super Bowl press conference at the Patriots' Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. 'But now, it’s something even more acrimonious.” “It’s always been a business relationship between the two of them,' Sherman said.

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