Hi everybody Peter King here and welcome to the FMIA Mini Pod.OD. As you know, this is my short podcast in which I recap this week's

NFL action, in this case Wild Card Weekend, and we'll look forward a little bit to next weekend's action in the

divisional round. Four games this weekend were absolutely spectacular. for the future. I went to Foxborough, I covered the Patriots, probably the end of the

greatness of the Patriots. I think there's going to be some major changes in New England.

Everybody is wondering about that.

And I'm just going to get to the lead to my column right now.

It's a little bit lengthy.

But I want to get to it right now so you will

understand what I mean when I say I think there are going to be some changes.

So anyway let's get to to a dateline Foxborough.

The interesting takeaway from spending 10 minutes with Tom Brady

before he left Gillette Stadium near midnight Saturday, he didn't seem at all surprised by the 20 to 13

wild card lost to Tennessee. He was sad but not distraught, knowing how stupid it would be for him, after playing in nine

Super Bowls in a magical 20-year run, to be somehow unfulfilled after the Patriots played pretty much the same desaltery

football against Tennessee that they'd played for the past two months. And I kept

thinking as he spoke, Tom Brady could see this coming.

What Brady can't see was similar clarity?

The future. Brady, clear-eyed, looking more like 32 than 42, sat in an

office near the Patriots locker room near midnight, less than an hour after the New England

Dynasty was shaken to its core and maybe shuttered.

He were a Navy buttoned down shirt, blue khakis, tan boots, a Navy ski cap, and the look of a man who absolutely

does not know what 2020 and beyond holds for him as he faces true freedom for the first time in his career.

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