Brady retires
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Honestly, that was a very poorly played hand and it's a little sad that this is how it ends when he probably had two chances to go out on top.
Still, TB12 is obviously one of, if not the, best to ever play the position.
What an amazing career.
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The best who ever did it. It will be very strange to follow the NFL without Tommy active.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
I am happy he retired and I am happier still that I was fortunate enough to have seen him play. One of things about human memory is that as it ages it tends to become sweeter. We'll all be reminiscing about the GOAT for many years to come.
I obviously owe this man a huge thank you for all of the great memories I got to share with my old man & son. Not to mention turning all of those Brady rookies I bought early in his career into pretty good money down the road (even though I did sell them about 2 yrs too early.)
Thanks Tom! 👍
Now after the past year he just had where he got divorced, lost about 100M in the FTX scandal, finished under .500 for the only time in his NFL career before bowing out in the playoffs with that poor showing against the Cowboys, I hope he goes on a long vacation with his kids,eat some fast food and see if G will take his retired ass back. 😎
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I'm neither a Brady fan nor hater. I thought it was pretty ridiculous when he retired the first time and then changed his mind shortly after. But I was happy to see him retire this time in a mellow, unstaged manner and did not turn it into the circus it could have been. After losing his family last year (his fault or not, I do not know), I hope the guy is able to find some peace in retirement.
He said he would play until he "sucks". Well. there you go. "Sucking" is obviously relative, but I guess for Brady last year was it.
I'll be on the lookout for any Brady slander around here...
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2nd edit to add "until he"
I like to remember him like this...
^^^^^^ great image. the master at work
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Simply the best.
FOX sports is likely his next destination.
The best ever.
Thanks for making us Pats fans happy over the years and extra happy with 6 Super Bowls!
Unbelievable career and the GOAT Patriot and as far as I'm concerned the GOAT NFL player.
Fixed. Us Pats fans rooted for him in that last SB as if he was throwing to Gronk,Edelman & White. That TB didn't stand for Tampa Bay, it stood for Tom Brady lol. 😉
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It's been a privilege to have been able to watch him play, the GOAT. It's kind of depressing that we'll never see him take the field again, I wish him the best.
OK I stand corrected lol
1 year late. And might have cost him his marriage. You go Tommie!
I won't believe he is retired until the 49ers start the season with a different QB.
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Ralph
I will delay my vote until 5 years have passed.
Brady’s career brought a lot of sports fan joy to my life. I will miss him, but the time has come for him to move on.
Kraft wants him to sign a 1 day contract and retire as a Patriot
For some reason I don't believe Brady will do that.
Would be nice if he signs the 1 day contract and retires (and STAYS retired) as a Patriot.
Sadly... but he apparently is trying to replace Mr. Boh
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if he doesn't, i will be quite disappointed.
It's too bad Tom Brady didn't sign with the Raiders, they really need a quarterback. Luckily, there's a guy named Dom Brading that's interested in the job, new guy, never seen him before.
I'm indifferent really, Tom Brady will always be the GOAT Patriot and player as far as I'm concerned, if he chooses not to do the 1 day ceremony I will be 50/50 on it
50% I would think it's because he feels he is above doing that type of thing
The other 50% could be to stick it to Kraft and Hoodie for his set up for failure in his last season as a Patriot and departure
i'm not the foremost authority on this subject, but i'm of the notion that he distanced himself from the Pats org years ago (literally & figuratively)
i just don't foresee it happening
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He tweeted now that he’s retired he has time to see ‘80’s for Brady’ four separate times today.
What a nerd!
Was deleted but restored by unpopular demand
Seems to be the secret photos for the planned audition and return of You Bet Your Life... or Don't Bet Your Life Just Yet
They are reworking the lyrics for Hooray For Captain Spaulding as we speak
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I'm loving these Tom Brady disguised memes, meant to insinuate that he'll be back, I hope he does return. This one is my favorite!
Wait…didn’t he run Crazy Uncle Auctions, too?
“Hey, it’s Enrico Palazzo!!!”
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"Tom Brady is reportedly focused on spending time with his children and won't rush into his new role with FOX Sports, sources close to the seven-time Super Bowl champion confirmed to TMZ Sports on Thursday (February 2)."
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If no one else is going to say it, then I will. You know what I think? I think Tom Brady is retiring because he realizes that he screwed things up with Gisele, I think he truly loves her and wants her back. He was miserable this season without her and reportedly lost 15 pounds. You see, love is a heck of a thing, it will bring the strongest man in the world to his knees, mess you up worse than bad chicken!
Brady’s playoff record is 35-13, which is a winning percentage of 73%. This is against the best teams in football year after year. This would be a great regular season percentage. The only QB close to that is Montana at 70% but he played in 25 fewer playoff games than Brady.
More typical is Peyton Manning at
14-13 for 52%. Many great QB’s could not attain a high playoff win percentage because of the great competition. These are probably the numbers that impress me the most about Brady.
Just thought I would post this because though I’m not a fan of Tom Brady it is the end of a remarkable career.
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I believe that there are misconceptions about Brady. One of them is... what about him exactly is so great? There are many answers to this question. Thank you @darin for pointing one out. 😎
I was waiting for the follow-up fact that Patrick Mahomes is currently 10-3 in his postseason career, a 76.9% winning percentage.
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I was also waiting for that fact. I was thinking of that when I was replying to him above. Darin is not a Brady fan, as he states. Yet still, the link between Brady and Mahomes is still being built, and is still very relevant. Link. Comparison. Juxtaposition. Whatever.
Tommy will always be a Patriot to me.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Me too!
I didn’t think it was prudent to post Mahomes record right before the Super Bowl.
If the Chiefs win then Mahomes first 5 years as a starter will compare favorably with Brady’s first 5 years, both regular and postseason.
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You, yes you, my friend @darin, are on the precipice of greatness. This is an important game (understatement of the ((insert time period)) I know).
Now it’s time for that follow up.
Mahomes is now 11-3 in the postseason for a 78.5 winning percentage, almost as good as his regular season 80%.
Well if we're comparing fairly,Tom Brady was 12-2 over his first 14 playoff games including 3-0 in the SB. 😉😉😉
I'm too lazy to check the regular season percentage. 😎
Edit: follow up to that, two of Mahomes 3 postseason losses were to Tom Brady. 😉😎
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Brady had a 58-20 career record after his 6 total season (5starter/1backup) his winning percentage was 74.3%
Mahomes is 64-16 in the same amount of years (5starter/1backup) for a 80% winning percentage.
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I'm sure that it will be forgotten by some, or cast aside as unimportant, but those two Brady vs Mahomes playoff games should be part of the equation.
However, if I wanted to guess, I'd say that the majority will pin Mahomes as GOAT if he reaches 5 SB wins.
I have heard quite a few people say that they arent sick of Mahomes like they were Brady. There seems to be a lot of support for Mahomes supplanting Brady.
Brady was around for 20 years of winning lol
I totally understood the hate towards him and us Pats fans lol
Entirely different situations though, Brady started out 9-0 playoffs/3-0 SBs and didn't lose a playoff game until the postseason of his 4th year as starter. Also there really wasn't any real hate for Brady until after Spygate happened,before that it was just hating him for the SB wins and the tuck rule game.
That's when we remind them lol. Just like Tom will always be 0-2 vs Eli in the SB, Pat will always be 0-2 vs Tom in the AFCCG/SB. 😉
This topic will always be subjective and you know that everyone will have their own criteria for who should be GOAT but,imo, 5 rings wouldn't even be close to cutting it when Brady owns most of the important career passing records as well.
If 12-15yrs down the road Mahomes ends up taking ownership of many of Tom's records then so be it,its not like Brady's career didn't happen. I figure at that point I'll be too busy touting Jayson Tatum as the basketball GOAT as he passes MJ's Rings and Lebron's career scoring record. 😎😉😎
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Very good point.
The one that bothers me is the AFC championship game against the pats. The chiefs had it won when they picked off brady but one of our d-linemen lined up offsides.
The super bowl loss to Tampa bay doesn’t bother me much because kc was never in it. complete blowout. The bucs were amazing that game with a dominating performance
If the Chiefs continue to play well, Mahomes and KC fatigue will kick in. It happens to every great team. Likable Patty will somehow magically turn into Mahomes the villain. Everyone loved the Brady and Patriots story at the start. Then they became the evil empire.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
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Let's reminisce. When did things turn, and is that turn inevitable. Wasn't it spygate that re-framed things?
I’m just going to stop you right there and correct you.
From the outside looking in, I would say that the Patriots never curried the favor you guys (the very nice group of Boston sports guys who populate these boards) seem to believe. First, the initial arrival of Bill Parcells bristled most Giants fans and while it was less about the Pats and more about Bill and the slippery way he left the Giants, the Patriots were the ‘shiny new girlfriend’ after the Parcells and Giants’ divorce and the timeline of when one relationship ended and one relationship began was really, really murky - at best. And if you’re thinking I’m some conspiracy theorist, you can either research it or recognize that the entire saga played out again, though in a much shorter time frame, with the Jets and Bill Bellichek a few years later. So that’s two fan bases which were never going to be a part of the Patriots love fest. Thats not to say the Patriot fan base hasn’t grown; there’s certainly many bandwagon fans that followed their success and professed loyalty with a merch purch but also we can’t forget the run of success really began with the Tuck Rule and The Taping. Those two fan bases - the Raiders and Rams - were already upset and feeling like they had been cheated after just the first SuperBowl win. In 2003, at least according to the Panthers GM, they were also taped pre SuperBowl and he was ranting about it before SpyGate was even a thing. Now, if you add in the holding and pass interference rules (more like lack there of, enforcement wise) that were a part of the 2004 season and how that drew the ire of the Titans and Colts teams and their fans and you’re up to nearly a quarter of the league and their fans with legitimate and real (or perhaps just perceived, in some cases) reasons to dislike the Patriots before they’d even hoisted their third Lombardi trophy.
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As I lived in New York City from 99 to 06, I certainly am well aware of the Patriot hate. I was actually referring more to when people turned against Brady. I feel as though he sort of existed as a separate entity outside the organization.