Didn't Brady take Garoppolo to the Kentucky Derby? What about the Wolfpack stuff? I don't know, he seemed tighter with him than any other backup I can remember aside from Cassel. Maybe he wasn't really helpful as a mentor, but it seems like a stretch to paint him as a Favre type. Portraying players calling Brady "sir" as some sort of ego trip, or a sign that he's this magnanimous figure is just laughable. The dude is 40 years old, what are 20 year old supposed to call him? Aside from that, don't most of these players, after getting to New England, express surprise at how much Brady is just another dude in the locker room? Brady may be kooky, and he's deftinitely insecure, but I thought the piece tried too hard to establish this image of him as an egomaniac.
Overall, the story was much tamer than I was expecting. I believe the Guerrero stuff is probably dead on, at this point I don't think you can say that hasn't had any effect on this team. I really hope Brady would dissociate himself from that guy, but I guess that ship has sailed. On the Garoppolo side, I do believe that Bill wanted to keep him initially, but the piece can't both state that Belichick is aware of Brady's stature with the team and ownership and then go on to say that Bill was livid after Kraft supposedly told him to trade Jimmy. He's a smart man, he obviously had an inkling something like that may happen. If he was that set on Garoppolo on the future of the franchise, to the point of it causing a rift with ownership when they demanded he trade Jimmy, his offer probably wouldn't have stopped at 17M per year. That's Mike Glennon money.
I'm sure the Brady-Belichick relationship isn't all roses, and that there are sprinkles of truth (or even more than that) throughout this piece. I just didn't think it was this apocalyptic "this team is going to come crashing down" type of stuff. Honestly, most of the situations described seemed to me like they could be worked around. I mean, is Bill going to retire because he had Tom fucking Brady "forced" on him? Didn't meet the hype.