The deal was announced at halftime of the Thursday night season opener on NBC by Peter King.
The four years and $72M were for the 2011 through 2014 seasons and it had a record amount of guaranteed money and was the biggest contract in NFL history (briefly). A Thursday morning car accident caused Robert Kraft to consider the fragility of things and decide to get the deal done. With uncertainty because of a looming uncapped year in 2011, the Patriots and Brady worked hard to get a deal done prior to the start of the 2010 regular season when Brady would enter his walk year. It took a car accident to push this deal over the finish line. But Brady isn't blind to the fact he's willing to meet the Patriots halfway on salary but is not being met halfway on the bonus.” Peyton Manning at the time was on a seven-year, $98M deal he signed in 2004 that had $34.5M guaranteed. Writing in March of 2005 for the Providence Journal I noted that, “At this point, the negotiations aren't quite acrimonious. More than half of the bonus money would come in the first two years of the deal, but unpaid bonus money in the later years of the contract would not be guaranteed, meaning if Brady were injured and couldn’t keep playing, portions of the $24 M bonus would never be realized. At issue? The Patriots wanted to pay Brady his proposed $24 million signing bonus in four installments. It was signed on May 4, but the hangup and haggling began in late February. This deal, which was slated to take Brady through the 2010 season, got contentious.
Signing Bonus: $26.5M ($14.5 signing bonus, $12M roster bonus in 2006) Lucrative though that may have seemed for a player that had started just 14 regular-season games, Drew Bledsoe’s deal with the Patriots signed just 18 months prior was for 10 years and $103M.
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