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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, after twenty two seasons, is retiring. First broken
Speaker 1: by Adam Schefter and Jeff Darlington. I had said on
Speaker 1: more than one occasion. This week it was the first
Speaker 1: time I believe Tom had a greater than fifty percent
Speaker 1: chance to retire. He seemed almost satisfied with the way
Speaker 1: the season ended. Two things that really jumped out to me,
Speaker 1: how unprepared the Buccaneers looked in their loss to the Rams,
Speaker 1: completely unprepared in the first half. It was a meltdown.
Speaker 1: And the second thing that jumps out to me the
Speaker 1: Patriots off and lost playoff games. Belichick was never unprepared.
Speaker 1: This has been the knock on Bruce arians he runs
Speaker 1: a very loose ship. It's not tight, it's outspoken, it's edgy,
Speaker 1: it's big play. Tom's mister efficiency, so you can lose.
Speaker 1: But Tom's team looked absolutely outclassed, outsmarted, and outmaneuvered. That's
Speaker 1: something my notice. Previously to that, I had said multiple
Speaker 1: times that Tom kept giving us little hints when he
Speaker 1: was leaving New England. Right, well, he gave us little
Speaker 1: hints post Thanksgiving with Tampa. He was frustrated, a lack
Speaker 1: of focus. People just need to do their jobs. He
Speaker 1: was giving us hints throughout the course of this season
Speaker 1: that it wasn't a tight ship. And this is something
Speaker 1: important to remember. Tom's a creature of habit. Tom loves structure,
Speaker 1: and Bill Belichick has created the finest structure Lombardiesque Bill
Speaker 1: Walsh esque just longer than anybody in league history. New
Speaker 1: England wasn't always the best drafting team. They weren't always
Speaker 1: the most physical team, they weren't always the fastest or
Speaker 1: most gifted team. They had the best structure, they had
Speaker 1: the best system. Tom loves that TV twelves a system.
Speaker 1: It's about structure, his clothing line. That's what Tom. He
Speaker 1: really met somebody that saw the world like he did. Efficiency, details, outwork,
Speaker 1: head down, Belichick and Brady, and I think when he
Speaker 1: went to Tampa he wanted more control, He wanted up
Speaker 1: more dynamic weapons, he wanted more of a say, and
Speaker 1: he got that, but he realized with Bruce Arians, there's
Speaker 1: there's some given take here. You know, I think we
Speaker 1: all know when I say certain coaches. We know Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll and Mike Tomlin heavy on the emotion. NATO was
Speaker 1: great on in game details. We know that Belichick, Belichick
Speaker 1: great on structure. Nato was good drafting weapons to elevate
Speaker 1: the quarterback. We know Bruce Arians big play offense. You
Speaker 1: know what do they say, risk it or no biscuit.
Speaker 1: Tom got frustrated with that last year. He was frustrated
Speaker 1: with that last year, and there was that buy and
Speaker 1: then this melting, this convergence of their offensive belief systems,
Speaker 1: and Tom went out and they became a more efficient
Speaker 1: short passing, intermediate passing game offense. Tom got mostly what
Speaker 1: he wanted. He got Gronk, he got Antonio Brown, he
Speaker 1: got the offense tweaked at the end of last year,
Speaker 1: and he got a huge break when the Kansas City
Speaker 1: Chiefs offensive line fell apart and he won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But I think over the course of time, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the old grass is Noah's greener. After two years
Speaker 1: in Tampa, Tom has his health, but he grew increasingly
Speaker 1: frustrated with the culture. And you know, I was very,
Speaker 1: very fortunate. I lived in the New England area Patriots
Speaker 1: country for eleven years in Connecticut, and I lived in
Speaker 1: Tampa for two two and a half years. They are
Speaker 1: complete opposite cultures. And Tom, to me, between Michigan and
Speaker 1: the Patriots, he felt like he fit in New England. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: right like Tom, He's not outside at the beach. Tom
Speaker 1: is sitting there watching film with his smoothies, with his
Speaker 1: family on his acreage. And he would have fun in
Speaker 1: Costa Rica or Montana or wherever he has houses. But
Speaker 1: you know, the New England weather when I lived there,
Speaker 1: I said this for years ESPN benefited from the lack
Speaker 1: of great weather. What else is there to do. There's
Speaker 1: nothing to do in Connecticut. You stay extra at work,
Speaker 1: you grind, you put in the hours, and I just
Speaker 1: felt like, that's Belichick. I don't think of Belichick as
Speaker 1: a big social animal. He and Brady never had dinner.
Speaker 1: But I think over time, sometimes you want to be
Speaker 1: more expressive and you want to have a greater say.
Speaker 1: And Tom did that, and he proved to himself he
Speaker 1: could do it. But I think deep down, at the
Speaker 1: end of this year, he missed the academic nature, the intensity,
Speaker 1: the predictability of Belichick. I think it made him appreciate
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick more. He always appreciated it, but it made
Speaker 1: him appreciate him more. And I think Belichick, frankly, after
Speaker 1: a couple of years without Tom, you know, he's not
Speaker 1: a huggy, kissy guy, but I think he appreciates what
Speaker 1: Tom brought to the table, the gamesmanship, the urgency. Tom's
Speaker 1: always been a better thrower or the football than anybody's
Speaker 1: given him credit for. So I'm not shocked by it.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised a little, but I said this week, I
Speaker 1: thought it was a greater than fifty percent chance, and
Speaker 1: I'd never felt that before. Tom sounded almost satisfied, not relieved,
Speaker 1: but satisfy the way the season ended. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a remarkable guy, a remarkable dad. You know, we didn't
Speaker 1: talk a lot about pre snap before Peyton Manning and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I talked about this last week. There's been
Speaker 1: three evolutions of quarter back. There was Marino and Elway
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty three, where they were stars the minute
Speaker 1: they entered the league. They just looked different and played differently.
Speaker 1: The next evolution was Peyton, Manning and Brady where we
Speaker 1: never talked about pre snapped. They were they were manipulating
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage before the ball was snapped. And
Speaker 1: then the third evolution is Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: last Sunday, where we never talked arm angle. We didn't
Speaker 1: have quarterbacks leaping over people and throwing side arm and
Speaker 1: sliders to Tyreek Hill. And Brady's aig a big part
Speaker 1: of that. So you know, I said this a couple
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and I meant it. Alabama football, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and Lebron James. I don't want to discredit any of
Speaker 1: the three, but there's a certain fatigue, and I liked
Speaker 1: seeing the Rams beat Brady in the bucks. I was
Speaker 1: time for a new story. Mcvaan Stafford's a fun new story.
Speaker 1: I've said this about Aaron Rodgers. I'd love for him
Speaker 1: to go to Denver. I feel the Aaron Rodgers Green
Speaker 1: Bay story. I've seen it. It's topped out. I think
Speaker 1: Tom realizes the Tampa story. He left New England frustrated
Speaker 1: with a lack of weapons. It topped out. He goes
Speaker 1: to Tampa, frustrated with the lack of structure. It's topped out.
Speaker 1: So Tom's always had a pretty impeccable sense of timing
Speaker 1: from in game to exiting New England to a social
Speaker 1: media to now in Tampa. I like Tampa. I lived
Speaker 1: there for a couple of years. But it's it's ybor city.
Speaker 1: It's cocktails early, it's a port city. It's fun, it's loose,
Speaker 1: and it's one of those A lot of people go
Speaker 1: there to golf and retire. It's laid back, and I
Speaker 1: think in the rear view mirror, Tom's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I got a little of both. I lived in New England.
Speaker 1: I vacation for a couple of years in Tampa and
Speaker 1: it's time. Remarkable guy, remarkable career, More when more news breaks.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady retiring twenty two remarkable years. The volume