Tom Brady retiring after 22 NFL seasons

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Tom Brady retiring after 22 seasons, seven Super Bowl wins with New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers



https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/331 ... ources-say

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TB12 facts:

20 full seasons
14 conference championship games
10 Super Bowls
7 titles

243-73 regular season
35-12 postseason

97,569 yards
710 TD passes

There won’t be anyone else like Tom Brady ever again.

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Not so fast…

BREAKING: AP sources: Tom Brady tells Tampa Bay Buccaneers GM he hasn't decided on retirement, despite ESPN report.

Tom Brady Sr. says, "This story is total conjecture. Tommy has not made a final decision one way or the other and anybody else that says that he has is absolutely wrong."

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TB12 facts:

Super Bowl record vs. Eli Manning and New York Giants 0-2

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TB12 facts:

Super Bowl record vs. Eli Manning and New York Giants 0-2

Fortunately, Brady recovered from that setback and went on to win four more world championships and another NFL MVP in the next ten years, while Eli and the Giants went on to lose more than 60% of their games, with only a single playoff appearance (a loss). Poor Tom.

Notice I didn’t even mention 28-3.

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TB12 facts:

20 full seasons
14 conference championship games
10 Super Bowls
7 titles

243-73 regular season
35-12 postseason

97,569 yards
710 TD passes

There won’t be anyone else like Tom Brady ever again.

I'd also mention:
199th selection in the 2000 NFL Draft

He's done pretty well since then...

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From ESPN:

Tom Brady said on his podcast that he's "still going through the process" and hasn't decided when to announce his plans on whether to play or retire.

"Sometimes it takes some time to really evaluate how you feel and what you want to do," Brady said on the latest episode of his "Let's Go!" podcast with Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray, released Monday. "I think when the time's right I'll be ready to make a decision one way or another, just like I said last week."



Way to jump the gun, ESPN

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And as soon as I post that, Brady posts this:





This is from 2020 when he left the Pats:

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My understanding was that the timing of when Brady's retirement became "official" affected Tampa Bay's salary cap for the next couple of seasons. By delaying until June, the team would be in a better position.

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[BackInTex]

And as soon as I post that, Brady posts this:

...I am not going to make that competitive commitment anymore.

So there is still hope the Texans can get him as their QB.

[Bob78164]

Unlike Tom Brady, the Jets have never lost a Super Bowl. --Bob

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So there is still hope the Texans can get him as their QB.

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From ESPN.COM:

Tom Brady's most memorable moment against all 32 NFL teams

New York Giants

Feb. 3, 2008: Memorable for Brady, just in the wrong way. This was the undefeated season ruined. "We're only going to score 17 points?" Brady said beforehand with a chuckle. Yep, the 18-0 Patriots only scored 17 points in the first of two Super Bowl losses to his nemesis Eli Manning and the Giants.

The other 31 aren't important.

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NFL general counsel Jeff Pash ordered expungement of 2015 air-pressure measurements

The past week has been a rocky ride for the NFL. The past 20 years have featured plenty of bumps, too. One of the biggest came in 2015, which began with the allegation that the Patriots had used deflated footballs during the first half of the AFC Championship.

First, let’s take a closer look at the development that caused Deflategate to mushroom from a curiosity into a firestorm. It came from Chris Mortensen of ESPN, who reported that 11 of 12 footballs used by the New England offense during the game against the Colts were underinflated by at least two pounds each.

The information was eventually shown to be false. Mort took the bullet for it, never complaining or calling out his source. (In fact, he clung to the discredited information for months, before his original item at ESPN.com was “clarified” with an acknowledgement that the initial report was incorrect.)

So who was his source? Per a source with knowledge of the situation and as explained in Playmakers, the source for the notorious 11-of-12 footballs report was NFL executive V.P. of football operations Troy Vincent.

It makes sense. It needed to be someone sufficiently high on the organizational chart to make it credible, and to prompt Mortensen to use it, despite the fact that (unbeknownst to Mortensen) it wasn’t true. It’s unclear whether Vincent deliberately lied to Mortensen. Things were muddled and hazy and confusing in the early days of the scandal.

Second, there was an important P.S. to Deflategate. One that received scant attention in the aftermath of the scandal, in large part because that’s what the league wanted.

Beginning with the 2015 season, the NFL began conducting air-pressure spot-checks at halftime of games. The numbers were collected and protected, with none of the information ever coming to light.

It was expected that, given the operation of the Ideal Gas Law, the pressure inside the balls would rise on warm days, and that it would fall on cold days. That’s exactly what happened. As the source put it, “numerous” measurements made at halftime of games during the 2015 season generated numbers beyond the permitted range of 12.5 to 13.5 psi, with the reading showing a direct correlation between temperature and air pressure.

On cold days, pressure readings taken before the balls were moved to the field resulted in lower readings after 90 minutes of exposure to the conditions. On hot days, the pressure increased.

Indeed, it was believed that the actual numbers measured in the footballs used by the Patriots were generally consistent with the numbers that the atmospheric conditions should have generated that day. This should have resulted in a finding that, at most, the evidence was inconclusive as to whether there had been deliberate deflation on the day in question.

So what happened to those numbers from the 2015 season? Per a source with knowledge of the situation, and as reported in Playmakers, the NFL expunged the numbers. It happened at the direct order, per the source, of NFL general counsel Jeff Pash.

Why would the league delete the numbers? It’s simple. For cold days, the numbers were too close to the actual numbers generated by the New England footballs at halftime of the playoff game against the Colts. Which means that the numbers generated at halftime of the January 2015 AFC Championship were not evidence of cheating, but of the normal operation of air pressure inside a rubber bladder when the temperature drops. Just as it was expected.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... surements/

Way to go, NFL.

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Tom Brady Makes Post-Football Moves, to Produce, Appear in Road Trip Comedy for Paramount, Endeavor Content (Exclusive)

Tom Brady may have retired from football, but that doesn’t mean the seven-time Super Bowl champion is leaving it behind.

In his first post-retirement move, Brady is making a blitz into Hollywood and will produce and, yes, appear, in a football-themed road trip movie titled 80 for Brady.

Hollywood icons Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno and Sally Field will star in the feature project that is being made by Paramount Pictures and Endeavor Content.

Brady (the movie, not the player) will be directed by Kyle Marvin, who also co-wrote the script with Michael Covino. Marvin, who appears as an actor in the upcoming Apple limited series WeCrashed and co-wrote and starred in indie movie The Climb, is also executive producing with Covino, under the duo’s Watch This Ready banner, and Jeff Stott.

Inspired by a true story, Brady tells of four best friends and New England Patriots fans who take a life-changing trip to the 2017 Super Bowl LI to see their quarterback hero, Tom Brady, play and the chaos that ensues as they navigate the wilds of the biggest sporting event in the country. Tomlin, Fonda, Moreno and Field will play the quartet.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235098335/


I'll bet most of you can't wait!!

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Brady has already has a film career that's as distinguished as his Super Bowl appearances against Eli Manning:

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Coincidentally, those film clips are 28 minutes and 3 seconds long.

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Not so fast…

These past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands. That time will come. But it’s not now. I love my teammates, and I love my supportive family. They make it all possible. I’m coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa. Unfinished business LFG

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Ya know? Jeez

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Narcissistic complex much?

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Narcissistic complex much?

I'm just the messenger.

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[BackInTex]

If I was the guy that paid $500K for Brady's "last touchdown" ball, I'd be pissed.

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Brady spends time with his family (satire from the New Yorker):

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022 ... the-family