ESPN's Adam Schefter says he's "sure" some members of the Patriots organization feel "some [regret]" over trading Jimmy Garoppolo, but "the circumstances were such that basically (the Tom Brady-Garoppolo situation) had run its course."
During an appearances on Adrian Wojnarowski's Woj Pod to promote his new book "The Man I Never Met," Schefter -- in comments transcribed by WEEI's Ryan Hannable -- described the events that led to Garoppolo's day-before-Halloween trade to the 49ers last year.
"In a perfect world you get to hold on to both guys and when Brady decides to walk away, Garoppolo is ready to step in and assume the throne," said Schefter. "But, it didn’t work out like that for a variety of reasons -- Jimmy’s contract was coming up, Tom is not ready to quit playing just yet, and people say that timing in life is a lot, and in this particular case it was . . . [There] was a 180 within the organization going from where they weren’t going to deal him, and were determined they weren’t going to deal him, to all of a sudden rushing to trade him right before the trade deadline last year on Halloween. It happened very quickly, very suddenly and yeah, I think there are people that definitely would not want him traded, but that was the circumstance and situation that they were in at that point in time.”