"What do you think Brady is going?" Rich Eisen asked Deion Sanders on NFL Network …
Prime:
Tom Brady >> 49ers
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It started well before the 49ers were Super Bowl contenders, and it will probably continue until Tom Brady retires. With Tom Brady reportedly looking forward to free agency, the buzz of Brady-to-San Francisco, his childhood team, and his childhood home, is alive. That’s not to say it’s likely or even substantiated, just that it’s out there.
Stirring the pot on the final day of the NFL Combine was Deion Sanders, who was asked by Rich Eisen for his thoughts on Brady. Not only did he postulate that Brady would head to the 49ers, but that the 49ers would trade Garoppolo back to the Patriots — who was acquired from them by the 49ers in 2017 for a 2018 second-round pick, after being poised to succeed the never-retiring Brady — who are obviously going to be in the market for a quarterback should Brady leave.
“Where do you think Brady is going, Prime?” Eisen asked.
“You know what, I have a theory,” Sanders said. “If it was me, this is just the ‘owner Prime,’ Brady to San Francisco man.”
“Come on,” Eisen said.
“Why not?” Sanders asked. “San Francisco has a window of opportunity. You as well as I know that window closes expeditiously. You gotta seize it right now. I love Garoppolo, trust me. Tom Brady’s the quarterback in the Super Bowl? I feel like there’s a different outcome. You got two years, man. Get it done. I would do it. You give New England what they want, you give San Fran what they want. Think about it. Just part of the thought.”
“You know, Brady would like to wind up there,” Eisen said.
“Thank you,” Sanders said. “Tell them why Rich.”
“Brady would love to wind up there,” Eisen said. “It’s home. It’s the team he grew up playing for. And it’s the team that was just in the Super Bowl.”
“I’m just throwing that out there, that’s just owner Prime,” Sanders said, again joking about what he’d do as an NFL executive.
“I don’t know,” Eisen said. “You’re not just throwing that out there. I’m thinking you have a breadcrumb you’re following.”
Followed by a few second silence, Sanders finished, “A little owner Prime.”
Later in the broadcast, the discussion continued around the hypothetical and NBA-like sign-and-trade-style deal, with NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah pointing out that the 49ers do have a Round 2 through Round 4 gap in draft picks, and a trade like this could replenish that.
