Tom Brady will not be heading to his eighth Super Bowl this season. Hey, I’m a Brady fan, so I wasn’t happy to see him fall, although it’s nice to see Matthew Stafford moving ahead towards the Big Game.
There’s lots of talk right now about whether Brady will call it quits after this season. Here’s what he has to say about it!
After the game
After the loss to the Rams, Brady was asked on the field about retirement, to which he answered that he “hadn’t put a lot of thought into it.”
Living in the moment
“We’ll just take it day by day and see where we’re at,” he added on the field after the Rams game.
The morning after
Brady appeared on the SiriusXM’s “Let’s Go!” podcast with Jim Gray on Monday (Jan. 24) to talk about the loss and his future.
Family matters
Brady is a family guy, and on “Let’s Go,” he said that while he didn’t want to “rush” any decision, his wife, Gisele Bündchen, and kids would be at the center of his decision.
What his family means to him
“The biggest difference now that I’m older is I have kids now too, and I care about them a lot as well,” Brady told Jim Gray on the show. “They’ve been my biggest supporters. My wife is my biggest supporter, it pains her to see me get hit out there. She deserves what she needs from me as a husband and my kids deserve what they need from me as a dad.”
It's not about what he wants
“I’m gonna spend some time with them and give them what they need, because they’ve really been giving me what I need the last six months to do what I love to do,” Brady added on the show. “I said this a few years ago, it’s what relationships are all about — It’s not always what I want, it’s what we want as a family. I’m gonna spend a lot of time with them and figure out in the future what’s next.
He loves football, and that's why he's stayed this long
“Playing football I get so much joy from, I love it,” he added on the show. “But not playing football, there’s a lot of joy in that for me also now too, with my kids getting older and seeing them develop and grow.”
One last Super Bowl?
Personally, I think Brady would at least like to make it to one last Super Bowl before he retires. I’m thinking he’ll return for one more season and give it his all. Time will tell. Hit up me online and let me know what you think!
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