Tom Brady on potential retirement, what lies ahead after Buccaneers' playoff loss
Leading up to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ heartbreaking 30-27 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in Sunday’s divisional playoff game, speculation grew that quarterback Tom Brady might be walking away from football at the end of this season.
After a short response to those kinds of questions following the game, Brady expanded on the subject Monday night on his “Let’s Go” podcast with Jim Gray (via The Tampa Bay Times’ Rick Stroud):
Tom Brady on his Let’s Go podcast about his wife and family and football. “It pains her to see me get hit out there. And she deserves what she needs from me as a husband and my kids deserve what they need from me as a dad.
— Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) January 25, 2022
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Tom Brady on his Let’s Go podcast.
“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. And I'm gonna spend a lot of time with them and figure out in the future what's next.”— Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) January 25, 2022
Tom Brady on his Let’s Go podcast. “The team doesn’t deserve anything less than my best. And if I feel like I'm not committed to that, or I can't play at a championship level, then you gotta give someone else a chance to play. And, you know, we'll see.”
— Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) January 25, 2022
Tom Brady on Let’s Go pod “Playing football I get so much joy from. I love it. 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. So all these things need to be considered and they will be.
— Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) January 25, 2022
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Tom Brady on potential retirement, what's ahead for him in 2022
