... never have been a storyline in the first place.

Yes, although Tom Brady's reported three-year, $58 million contract extension hasn't been finalized yet, only the worst doom-and-gloom Chicken Little football fans could have predicted the deal wouldn't get done.

Perhaps even the biggest Brady bashers believed they had a chance to land the future Hall-of-Fame quarterback in free agency. One loophole in that theory: he has to become a free agent before we start saying what other teams he could impact.

There's obviously a fair amount of backlash from this, but a few things stand out to me.

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