The New England Patriots have a pretty high-profile free agent. Quarterback Tom Brady decided not to retire this offseason. Now they have to try and convince him to come back to New England.

Right now, Brady is being courted by a lot of teams. So even though the Patriots are the favorites to retain his services, there is no guarantee.

It appears the talks aren't exactly intensifying at the moment, either. According to Mike Reiss of ESPN.com, “nothing has definitively changed” in the situation between Brady and the Patriots.

“There is a lot of smoke around free-agent-to-be Tom Brady, but from a pure bottom-line perspective, my viewpoint is that nothing has definitively changed on the two key questions regarding the quarterback's future: How far financially is Belichick willing to go to retain him? And how motivated is Brady to return?”

Those are two questions a lot of people have been wondering about the situation.

Brady has been known to take a deal lower than you'd expect someone of his caliber to take. However, this is likely his last contract. And he's now in a legitimate free agent situation. One where every team can go after him. And it appears a lot of teams are jumping at the chance.

So will Brady return to the Patriots for a reasonable price? Or will he be asking them to top all the other offers?

Then there's the motivation. You'd have to imagine he has a decent amount of motivation to return to a team he's played with his entire career and won six Super Bowls with. It also helps that they were contenders last season.

That being said, other teams can offer him contention too. They can give him a lot of positives that New England might not be able to offer. So will the motivation be as strong as you might expect?

This is a situation that will leave a lot of people wondering what will happen next. It looks like with nothing changing much; we'll be waiting for quite a bit longer, though.