Few members of the New England Patriots have been as publicly relaxed about Tom Brady’s departure than Devin McCourty.
While everyone who has spoken has downplayed concerns about Brady’s exit, McCourty, who has been with the Patriots since 2010, said he hadn’t even been paying attention to the story of the offseason because he was focused on his own free agency.
“I honestly didn’t think twice about Tom Brady’s free agency, because I was a free agent,” McCourty told SiriusXM NFL Radio, via Grant Gordon of NFL.com. “That was my main concern, where my family would end up. Would we be back in New England? Then when I signed my deal and I was back, you kind of think of all the guys. Tom, the Kyle Van Noys, the Jamie Collins’. All of those guys you had relationships with, Matthew Slater. That you kinda know, man, this could be it. That coulda been the last game I played with these guys. When he made a decision, to me it wasn’t like the end of the world.”
McCourty is sticking to the Bill Belichick script here. The Patriots have little choice to move on.
While it’s clear McCourty valued Brady as a teammate, putting him in the same category as other free agent departures like Jamie Collins says all you need to know about New England’s mindset.
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