Starting off his NFL career with just $864,000 for three years, Tom Brady gave the New England Patriots a dynasty to recall for ages. We all know the fact that TB12 has been one of the greatest quarterbacks that the league has ever produced. However, still, he wasn’t paid like it during his 20-year tenure with the Foxborough team. Talking about the same, former NFL executive, Scott Pioli explained the process of Tom Brady’s contract negotiation and how his humbleness helped the franchise to stay together.

In a recent episode of Games With Names on October 3, ex-NFL executive Scott Pioli joined the host, Julian Edelman, to talk about the day when Tom Brady entered his office to talk about the deal. He revealed Brady’s early contracts were handled in a very businesslike, bottom-line manner. Pioli admitted the wrong the Patriots did with Brady, saying, “I’ll say this. Unfortunately we were doing business at that point in time, not thinking long term and relationships. It was a very bottom line way of doing things and it was something Bill [Belichick] and I weren’t comfortable with and so Tommy’s first deal, he got less than he should have for his slot.” Nevertheless, this didn’t affect the relationships between Tom Brady and others, including Scott Pioli.

According to the former executive, he and Brady built a close relationship over the years. So, when it came to Brady’s third contract, negotiations between Brady’s agent Don Yee and the team weren’t progressing well. Hence, it was causing a distraction for the then-Pats quarterback. Therefore, Pioli recalled that one morning, Brady went directly to his office, eager to get the deal done so that he could focus on football.

Now at that time, Pioli told Brady “we’re not supposed to be talking about this. I can’t negotiate with you” as it was against the rules. However, Brady insisted, stating, “Hey, if my family and I can’t live on $60 million there’s really something wrong.” He “talked about this number that was $10 million a year. Six years. $60 million [that should tell you how long ago it was].”

Shortly after that, Brady then asked Pioli to call Yee on speakerphone to finalize the deal. And although it was an unusual move, with that, Brady made it clear that he wanted to prioritize keeping the team together and wasn’t worried about getting the biggest payday. Brady signed this new 6-year, $60 million deal in 2005, when his counterpart Peyton Manning was getting a seven-year, $98M deal. Nevertheless, Tom Brady’s face-to-face humbleness helped the Patriots to form a dynasty.

But it’s strange to hear that Tom Brady isn’t that good when it comes to text.

Tom Brady does not reply to the text messages?

Tom Brady and Julian Edelman are friends from their Patriots’ days. And till now, the two share a great bond, often chatting with each other on calls. However, there’s one thing that Edelman finds annoying about the legendary quarterback, and that is his way of texting. Explaining his point, Edelman joined a recent interview with Us Weekly, and revealed Tom Brady’s habit of not texting him back.

The former WR said that Tom Brady has a lack of proficiency in modern-day communications. He said, “I think he’s a little too old for texting. You know when you teach your grandparents how to text and stuff? Maybe that’s what it is. He reads it and he doesn’t know how to text back. I mean, the guy is 50. We’re pushing 50.” However, Edelman confirmed that Brady reads the text. However,is it lack of understanding the phone’s operations, or is it just being fine with calls than texting?.

Nevertheless, despite being non-proficient in communicative skills on phones, Tom Bardy has remained a talented quarterback in his 23-years of NFL career, despite taking a pay cut every time. He is still considered as the greatest ever to do it.