Tom Brady has officially entered the stunted phase (of life, it seems) after being traded to his “Let’s Go!” podcast with Jim Gray and Larry Fitzgerald. Gray asked Brady a general question, the same one that all sports media are asking after Tom’s 23rd season in the NFL. Brady was asked a simple question about the schedule, and he responded to Gray’s question with an incredibly sharp response.
“You’re crazy, bro?” As Richard Sherman once trolled Brady, Gray should have borrowed that page from the former All-Pro’s book. As if Brady didn’t “retire” only to return to the Buccaneers weeks later. Even if it wasn’t an official departure into retirement, he must have led everyone to believe he was giving up. Now, 11 months later, he has the audacity to gather his boxers in a pile when someone asks him which way he leans.
Will he or won’t he retire? That’s enough more…
Unless he stays off the airwaves and the public until he’s had enough time to make one decision, this is something he has to live with. Brady will be asked about his decision to return to the age of 24 or hang up the boots for good. When you are a player of his caliber, the media, fans and others in the football world want to know your every move.
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It doesn’t matter what yours is the season ended terribly with you to get beat by the Dallas Cowboys at home. Nobody cares about that. Everyone wants to know where Tom Brady’s future leads. Is she on the court for another year or is she finally coming home with her kids?
Brady knows this, and the fact that it was Gray, someone he’s been in a relationship with for many years, probably caused him to lash out. He probably wouldn’t take the same tone with a random local reporter or even a national radio/tv host with whom he doesn’t have a long relationship. While Brady has every right to be annoyed, it was over the top and made him look like a jerk.
The future Hall of Famer is undoubtedly frustrated with Tampa’s season, but let’s hope he realizes a lot is on him. Brady is no longer 25 or even 35 and obviously can’t throw the ball as accurately as he could before. Others took the blame, like offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich and others, but when they won the previous two years, there was no problem. Suddenly, Leftwich is the “major” problem, but few want to point out Brady’s flaws. Some may not want to admit it, but many of his throws this year were off target, and it wasn’t always the receivers fault.
But of course, Brady got a pass there, and he’ll get one here with Gray. If it had been almost any other player, it might have been taken as a verbal attack. Gray probably won’t mention it publicly, but he probably wasn’t happy with Brady’s response, and you could hear a little of that in his follow-up to Tom’s tantrum. Since they’re friends, it’s probably water under the bridge, but she certainly didn’t paint Brady in the most generous light.