Whether or not Tom Brady plays again next season is not or shouldn’t be at all important to anyone. We all have much bigger things to worry about. But, since it seems to be a topic for discussion following the Bucs’ loss to Dallas, I’ll add my two cents’.
He should retire and open a spot for someone else to have a chance to play. Set aside whatever “competitive fire” Brady still has in his belly. Set aside his apparent love for hanging with the guys or whatever else still drives him. He appears not to be able to handle life apart from the routines of football.
It long ago became something sad for me, something that started looking like he was hiding, or avoiding things. He has a lucrative (to say the least) contract awaiting him at Fox Sports. He’s got children to help raise. It seems as though he enjoys the fruits of the reputation that always precedes him, as if he knows he’s a living legend to many, and he just needs to keep drinking that in.
I’d like to think that I would feel the same way if he was still playing for the Pats, and I think maybe I would. In any event, Tom is going to do what’s best for Tom. Maybe he’d be a Hall of Fame sportscaster, if he could just make the break.
3 Cents' 