Coach Bill Belichick and owner Robert Kraft effusively praised the quarterback who said he is leaving the New England Patriots.

It didn’t have to come to this, and for that both Bill Belichick and Tom Brady deserve some blame.

It has happened plenty of times before in sports — a legendary star switching teams toward the end of his career.

Tom Brady’s decision to leave New England means the Patriots could be in the market for a quarterback for the first time in two decades.

The Patriots quarterback announces he is leaving the organization, and he will leave incredible memories.

Over the past two decades Tom Brady and Bill Belichick built the most successful player-coach partnership in NFL history.

“I don’t know what my football future holds, but it is time for me to open a new stage for my life and my career,” Brady wrote in Instagram post.

The odds still favor future Hall-of-Famer returning to the Patriot, John Clayton writes, but the Titans are an attractive option.