Last Updated on 02/02/2023 by てんしょく飯
G.O.A.T. is retiring once again.
Quarterback (QB) Tom Brady revealed his plans to retire from the NFL in a video posted on Twitter on Wednesday, February 1.
Brady spent 23 seasons with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Truly grateful on this day. Thank you 🙏🏻❤️ pic.twitter.com/j2s2sezvSS
— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) February 1, 2023
The announcement came exactly one year after Brady announced his retirement in 2022. Last year, Brady changed his mind in 40 days. TB12, who revealed his plans, sometimes with a stifled voice, insisted that this was the last time he would do so.
Good morning. Let’s get right down to it. I’m retiring…for the last time,” Brady continued.
I know this process was a big deal last time, so I woke up this morning and thought I’d just hit the record button. I figured I’d be the first to let everyone know. It won’t be that long. You’re just going to get a very emotional retirement essay, and I’ve done that in the last year. So thank you all from the bottom of my heart. To everyone who has supported me. Family, friends, teammates, competitors, the list goes on and on. So many people. To those who have allowed me to live my absolute dream, thank you. I wouldn’t change a thing. I love you all.”
Famously selected by the Patriots in the sixth round, 199th overall, of the 2000 NFL Draft, Brady’s unparalleled competitive spirit has fueled a Hall of Fame career that has seen him take over the starting job in his second NFL season and never once stop to collect trophy after trophy. He never stopped collecting trophies. In the end, Brady was a seven-time Super Bowl Champion, three-time NFL MVP, five-time Super Bowl MVP, two-time NFL Offensive Player of the Year, three-time First Team All-Pro selection, three-time Second Team All-Pro selection, 15-time Pro Bowl selection, and 2009’s He will retire after being named Comeback Player of the Year. He was also named to the NFL All-Decade Teams of the 2000s and 2010s and the NFL Centennial All-Time Team.
A true G.O.A.T., Brady was named to the G.O.A.T. for his successful passes (7,753), pass attempts (12,050), passing yards (89,214), passing touchdowns (649), starts (333), QB wins (251), Pro Bowl selections (15), and Super Bowl MVP (5 times), all of which are the most in the NFL. He has been the all-time leader in touchdown passes in a season five times (2002, 2007, 2010, 2015, and 2021), and no other player in NFL history has matched that mark anywhere.
In team sports, no player has won more games than Brady, and in a career spanning 23 seasons, Brady has also made 20 postseason appearances, 48 starts, 35 wins, and 10 Super Bowl appearances. He has 1,200 successful postseason passes, 13,400 passing yards in the playoffs, 88 postseason touchdown passes, 14 game-winning drives, and nine fourth quarter comebacks, all NFL career records.
After returning to the field in 2022, Brady had the first losing season of his career, but still led his team to the National Football Conference (NFC) South Division championship and a playoff berth. This season he set NFL single-season records with 490 successful passes and 733 pass attempts. It may not have been his best season, and Brady himself was not at his best, but Brady was not the reason the Buccaneers struggled. at 45 years old, Brady has shown that he can throw excellently as long as he is protected. Without TB12. Buccaneers would have had a top-10 draft pick. Instead, the team is moving on to the postseason.
The quarterback from the University of Michigan, who was described as slow-moving, has built his career while proving people wrong; he may not have been the most talented player to ever come to the NFL, but no one has won more games than Brady in stretch-and-rebound situations. With a relentless, frenetic drive, Brady has been aiming for one goal throughout his life: to win. That is to be the greatest player on the biggest stage. While he does not possess an extra-dimensional physicality, no one excels in the pocket more than Brady. His pinpoint accuracy and gorgeous deep balls were legendary themselves.
There were no runs like Lamar Jackson, no outrageous plays off the platform like Patrick Mahomes. But there was no one to match the greatness he displayed in pressured situations and at extremely critical junctures. Every time Brady had the ball in the final minutes of a lead situation, one expected a comeback. Brady pulled his team back from the abyss on more than one occasion. There may never be another talent to match him. Exactly one year after making what he later described as a “hasty” decision last season and ultimately pulling out of retirement, Brady again announced his retirement on February 1.
Brady’s goal all along was to play until he was 45 years old. He has done it. Some thought that given his ability and ambition, Brady would play one or two more seasons beyond the barrier he had set for himself. Brady would have had many offers in free agency as he continued to stiff-arm his age opponent throughout his career.
But Brady is now writing the final chapter of a great career and beginning the next new epic.
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