When brave cat called to leave professional football last February, things are improving.
Yes, the star quarterback just got knocked out of the knockout stages, but it was a heavy loss in the NFC Championship Game—just a year after he won his seventh Super Bowl at the age of 43. Brady was have a chance to advance to the national championship. The sun goes down with his fame, family, and sanity still intact, but he’s chosen to test his father’s time for at least another year.
Now, 11 months later, Brady’s embarrassing performance on Monday night against the Cowboys — combined with an odd interception in the back yard that the Bucs could never recover from — has tainted it. his competitive legacy and ending a forgettable season in which his wife of 13 years, Gisele Bündchen, divorced him.
Brady, 45, dodged questions during Monday’s post-match press conference about whether he plans to return to the NFL next season. When asked what happens next, he said, “I’ll go home and get a good night’s sleep.”
Speculation about Brady’s future has been the talk of the NFL for months. Media reports say he enjoys playing for the Miami Dolphins so he can be closer to his children, two of whom live with Bündchen in South Florida. An NFL insider says NBC Sports before Monday’s collapse that Brady’s move to Miami was “definitely considered.”
Other reports have speculated Las Vegas could be his next destination. The Raiders are led by Josh McDaniels, Brady’s longtime offensive coordinator from his New England days, and they are currently looking for a quarterback with Derek Carr leaving the team. A source said CBS that Brady — despite his average run in 2022 — will be the “show changer” in the desert.
Both the front office and the players on the Buccaneers, who have historically worst win rate of all the NFL franchises, has suggested they will have Brady return for another year even though he has led the team to a record 8-10 this season.
“I want to play with him forever,” said Tampa Bay lineman Tristan Wirfs told ESPN. “I love Tom. I wish everything was as perfect as possible for him – if it was the last year for him.
While his options still seem numerous on the field, Brady could make even more money if he ditches it for the TV stand. It was reported that last year Fox signed Brady 375 million USD more than 10 years waited for him when he finally retired.
Brady’s problems this season began before the Bucs’ opening game. His marriage to Bündchen had been fractured for many years, Brady said in 2020 that Bündchen had been had to beg him in a letter to spend time with his family.
He said on the “Let’s Go” podcast in 2021: “I think my wife has been in the house for a long time and I think there are things she wants to accomplish. I haven’t worked that much in the last 10, 12 years just to feed my family and commit to living in Boston and then moving to Florida.”
Gisele Bündchen celebrates the Bucs’ Super Bowl victory in 2021.
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In his original retirement announcement, Brady wrote that he was resigning because of his family. That brief period of time—just 40 days—seems to have briefly healed Brady’s marriage, as he and Bündchen fell in love with each other. Instagram post to celebrate their anniversaries. However, this new love seemed to have been destroyed when Brady returned to football.
“Over the past two months, I have realized that my place is still on the field and not in the stands,” Brady wrote on March 13 to announce his return. “I love my teammates, and I love my supportive family. They make it all possible.”
Despite this optimism, Brady has absent from the Buccaneers pre-season training camp for 11 days. At the same time, Bündchen was posting pictures of herself and Brady’s children in South Florida—more than three hours from where Tom is believed to be in Tampa.
Bündchen says: “He focused on his career, and I mainly focused on the kids. British fashion magazine in June.
Bündchen was significantly absent from every QB game at the start of the season — as was her husband’s arguably worst play of his 23-year career.
In October, Brady lost three games in a row for the first time. The day after their third loss to the Baltimore Ravens, Brady and Bündchen confirmed they were divorced.
“You try to break things down and really focus on your work,” Brady said on his weekly podcast that week. “I know everyone [say], ‘Tom, you should have retired. You should do this, you should do it.’ And that’s okay…For me, there’s always satisfaction when you make this commitment and you have a group of individuals doing the same and you see something pay off.”
Despite averaging only 6.4 yards per pass this year (his worst average in 20 years) and only hitting 25 touchdown passes (fifth in his career) his), the Buccaneers made it to the knockout stages with a losing streak — for the first time — after Brady’s barely won the NFC South.
Brady’s spiraling season ended with a cowboys thrashing on Monday, where QB was caught screaming and slapping his own helmet after a second-half intercept — a game and the reaction serves as a microcosm of his entire year.
After a season from hell, taking on Fox’s huge TV contract is perhaps the most logical choice for Brady, but the single new star hasn’t given any indication that he’s planning to do so. intend to give it up.
“There is no immediate retirement in my future,” Brady said on his podcast in October. “There was one retirement before, but I have continued since.”
