More information is coming out regarding the phone conversation Tom Brady had with Bill Belichick last week. And it doesn’t sound very good if you are a New England Patriots fan who is hoping the quarterback returns in 2020.

Dale Arnold of WEEI’s Dale & Keefe provided some of the details of the call on Friday. He stated that the Patriots basically told Brady that all they could offer him is a relatively cheap one-year deal:

“This is what I was told happened: There was a phone call between Bill Belichick and Tom Brady,” said Arnold. “There was not a negotiation. There wasn’t a, ‘We will offer you a two-year deal at X number of dollars.’ What I was told happened was the Patriots told Tom Brady that all they can do is a one-year deal at less money than he made last year because of the $13.5 million that gets tacked onto the salary cap and basically, ‘What we’re going to be able to do here Tom, is a one-year deal, but it’s not going to be for as much money as you got last year.’”

Unless Brady badly wants to stay in New England, it seems hard to imagine him agreeing to those terms. Reports have stated since January that Brady is tired of being underpaid and wants to make up for it in 2020.

Well, giving him even less money than he made in 2019 probably won’t resolve those issues.

Of course, there is still time for Brady and the Pats to come together and hammer out some type of agreement. But the gulf between the two sides seems pretty large right now.

There will almost surely be a team out there willing to give Brady more money than the Patriots. So this may just come down to whether or not Brady values the chance of winning a seventh Super Bowl or the money more.