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Tom Brady may be 43 years old, but there is no sign that he is retiring anytime soon. However, he should reconsider that thinking.
The six-time Super Bowl champion is close to a seventh Super Bowl title as his Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV. Not only does it lack competition hardware, it doesn’t reveal any thoughts of retiring after this season – in fact, he said earlier in the week during Super Bowl LV week that he may just be playing past the age of 45.
Brady toured years ago when he announced his intention to play until the age of 45 – a feat not previously performed by George Blanda, who played until the age of 48 back in 1975.
The 21-year-old NFL veteran is about to end the first season of a two-year, $ 50 million contract he claimed with the Buccaneers last offseason. That would mean Brady will be sure to play on the NFL team until the age of 44.
Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians was asked to respond to Brady’s confirmation Thursday – however, he refused to promise Brady a contract extension, stating that is not his responsibility.
“I have nothing to do with contracts, so that has to be [GM] Jason [Licht] question. I think Tom is really happy where he is, and I wouldn’t be surprised. ”
Despite not getting approval past the 2022 season, let ‘s be real – Brady will be a Buccaneer for as long as he wants to be.
And while he’s still a top quarterback in the NFL, let’s be real too – he should retire after this season if the Buccaneers knock out the Chiefs in Super Bowl LV.
Here ‘s the bottom line: whatever the outcome of this game, Brady will go down as the GOAT
Yes, are there many other players who deserve to be considered – and have an argument – that they were bigger than Brady? Yes.
But in the eyes of the media – who highly value competitions – there is no parallel for Brady. Not only does it have the hardware, it has the statistics to support its purpose (first in full-time passing tours, second in passing and finishing yards).
With that being said, it’s not going to get any better than this.
Brady has won a franchise that had been dormant since winning the Super Bowl at the end of the 2002 season. In fact, prior to this year, they had not won a playoff game since that season. .
In fact, outside of a tremendous stretch in the late 90s and early 2000s under the direction of Tony Dungy and Jon Gruden, this has been a losing franchise since he joined the NFL in 1976. He didn’t have to only five playoff shows – before this season – when you swept that piece from 1997 to 2002.
Not only would he win a Super Bowl for a historically suffrage franchise, he would be the only one to do so in the team city, with Super Bowl LV taking place in Tampa .
That’s not to mention that Brady has fired Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers – two of his generation’s top rivals – in the same postseason, and that he would have won on the very day today, Patrick Mahomes.
To top it all off, he would end the 2020 season – whether medium or not – as the undisputed winner in the “Brady vs Bill Belichick” debate. Belichick went straight through a 7-9 season with the New England Patriots – the first season to lose the franchise since 2000, when Brady was a backup quarterback.
And he would do all this at the age of 43.
If Brady plays past this season, he will continue to be good. It will bounce back slowly – his 12 interceptions were the most he has thrown since the 2011 season – and will continue to be like a walking duck in his pocket, as he will carry the least weight. omitted on play.
Even with a slightly declining game, the Buccaneers will still be a playoff contestant – and may play their way into another Super Bowl if the defense continues as the main unit.
However, it does not get sweeter than this. It would be even better than if Michael Jordan had just retired after hitting the game-winning picture over Bryon Russell to win the 1998 NBA finals.
Beating Brees, Rodgers, Mahomes and Belichick all in his first season away from New England? Not only does it beat them, it bears a few of their legacies – all at the age of 43.
Brady won’t retire after this season, but he should – because it would go down as the greatest hobby of any athlete in pro sports history.