Think back to the year 2000, nobody had Tom Brady on their radar or thought anything of him coming out of Michigan.
Former Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe, in part of an upcoming E:60 interview on ESPN, admitted he didn’t think Brady would ever become a starter in the National Football League. In fact, he threw a slight jab at former Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett while explaining what he thought Brady would become.
“Here’s the real truth,” Bledsoe began, “so when he was on the practice squad his rookie year, I actually called my financial advisor about him. I was like, ‘Hey, I really like this kid. He’s never going to be a starter. He’s going to be Jason Garrett or one of those guys that’s just going to be around forever. You’ll really like the kid.’”
“We kind of brought him in. He was over our house,” Bledsoe recalled. “We had him over for dinner probably at least every other week. But just really liked him. Liked the kid. I thought he was just [great] and still do. But nobody, outside of maybe Tom himself, would ever have predicted that he was going to go on to be a starter in the league and be in the conversation as one of the greatest of all-time.”
The interview with Bledsoe will air on Sunday, January 26 at 7 p.m. on ESPN 2.
