Tom Brady is coming off winning a Super Bowl in his first year with the Buccaneers, while the Patriots struggled in their first year without him, going 7-9.
The Patriots were very aggressive in the first week of free agency to make their roster better for 2021, which Robert Kraft acknowledged when speaking to MMQB's Albert Breer (as well as NBC Sports' Peter King).
Breer asked Kraft about watching Brady win a Super Bowl.
“Well, I was really happy for him,” he said. “He’s a great guy and he gave us 20 wonderful years, and he made the choice to do what he wanted to do. Look, I wasn’t that happy to see him leave, but we gave him that opportunity to do it. And I want to say if we’re not going to win, and someone’s got to do it, I’m happy for him. He deserves it.”
As for his own team, he knows last year cannot happen again.
“We gotta win,” Kraft said. “And I think we’re in a better position than we were two weeks ago to do that. But we’ll let things play out. I’ve never had to come up with as much capital this fast, if you total the numbers, but we’re happy to do it and we hope it has the right outcome.”
