Tom Brady

2022 - 3 - 14

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Tom Brady's NFL return is both understandable and potentially foolish (The Guardian)

The quarterback still believes he has plenty to offer his team. But it is often the game, rather than the player, that decides when a career is over.

Brady – probably correctly – believes he has more left in the tank and he’s not yet ready to give up the only professional career he’s ever known. Brady had given us the perfect sports ending, it seemed, but it wasn’t enough for him. When given the chance, hyper-competitive superstar athletes stay in their sport for as long as their bodies can hold up and teams are willing to pay them. His final two seasons with the Washington Wizards have since become shorthand for the period when an athlete refuses to accept their professional mortality. So, it was on a random Sunday night in March – during the hours normally set aside in the US for college basketball discussion – that Tom Brady announced he is returning to the NFL. For all the excitement regarding Brady’s return, there is also a feeling of weariness, echoing that old line: “how can we miss you when you won’t go away?”

Tom Brady announces stunning comeback (New Zealand Herald)

Brady said he's returning to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for his 23rd season in the NFL. The seven-time Super Bowl champion announced his decision on Twitter and ...

I'm coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa." "These past two months I've realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands," Brady wrote. I love my teammates, and I love my supportive family.

The Football-Sized Clues That Tom Brady Was Never Really Retired (The Wall Street Journal)

It took less than a week of Tom Brady being retired for it to seem very possible that Tom Brady probably wasn't retired. Six days after he revealed that he was calling it quits, he appeared on his “Let's Go!” podcast, and he wasn't exactly subtle about ...

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What Brady, Rodgers and Wilson's Choices Could Mean for the NFL ... (The New York Times)

Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson all made decisions that shifted plans around the league and reinforced the value of having a franchise ...

Rodgers’s decision, like Brady’s, maintains the balance of power in the N.F.C. as the Buccaneers and Packers attempt to challenge the Rams’ supremacy. Enter the Broncos, who have failed to find a long-term successor since Peyton Manning’s retirement and have started 11 quarterbacks since 2016. Behind a subpar offensive line, Wilson took plenty of sacks, and had seen most of his teammates from Seattle’s back-to-back Super Bowl appearances in the 2013 and 2014 seasons depart without upgraded replacements. Rodgers led the Packers to a 13-4 season in 2021, and their relationship improved even as chaos from Rodgers’s becoming a cultural lightning rod over his coronavirus vaccination status ensued off the field. A good quarterback has always been the staple of a healthy franchise, but those three cornerstones helped define the 2010s in the league through stellar play for their organizations and continued to do so in the 2020s. Green Bay enters the free agency period with salary cap concerns, but Rodgers’s undisclosed contract renegotiation is expected to free some space for the moves Gutekunst will have to make to re-sign key players. Tom Brady’s return should be a boon for the N.F.L., and the early statistics have already hinted at it. An N.F.L. spokesman declined to comment on marquee games, but Polian said he believed it was inevitable that the Buccaneers might feature prominently in night games during the 2022 season. They included, Rodgers said, the organization not including him in managerial decisions, his perceived mistreatment from the Packers toward former teammates and his not being utilized to recruit free agents. The Denver Broncos also planned to trade for Russell Wilson, a nine-time Pro Bowl selection who spent 10 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks. Less than two months after he ended his 22-season N.F.L. career, Brady, 44, reversed course Sunday night by announcing on social media that he would return to the league and to Tampa Bay. After Brady’s first announcement, with its franchise centerpiece departed, Tampa Bay looked like it would need to rebuild to stand a chance of competing.

For competition addicts like Tom Brady, there will always be ... (Stuff.co.nz)

Seven-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady abruptly said he would end his brief retirement on Sunday, announcing his return to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ...

It's for his curiosity, his ego, his sense of identity, his love of the sport and his diligently maintained body. Brady is just the latest legend who's afraid to say goodbye. His place will always be on the football field. That desire to maximise a great thing reminds you he is human. "As Tom said, his place right now is on the football field." As free agency begins, the Buccaneers will hustle to maintain and improve a championship-caliber roster. Now, a month and a half later, the announcement is officially obsolete. "These past two months I've realised my place is still on the field and not in the stands," Brady wrote on Twitter. "That time will come. In August, Brady will celebrate his 45th birthday at training camp, preparing for his 23rd pro season, expecting again to be the surest quarterback thing in the league. When 2022 ends, he will have spent more of his life in the NFL than outside of it, another remarkable feat of longevity. He couldn't carry on without a jersey to wear, a defence to dissect, an audience to captivate. He probably didn't have time to finish his wife's honey-do list, but he's back.

First Buccaneers free agent domino falls after Tom Brady news (The Pewter Plank)

The Buccaneers have Tom Brady back. Check that box off the Super Bowl list. But now they need to re-up his protection on the offensive line.

The rightful MVP from the 2021 season didn’t last long in free agency, and none of us will complain about that. The Buccaneers may be tight on cap space, but even they know how important keeping Brady’s jersey clean is. The Buccaneers are back in business as legitimate Super Bowl contenders.