Tom Brady retired from football and then returned to football after 40 days and people thought it was just one of those retirements and comebacks but there is more to Tom retiring and then coming back.
As the Boston Globe headline reads; “A secret plan, a bombshell lawsuit, and a soccer match: Inside Tom Brady’s un-retirement”, a lot played out before and after Tom Brady’s retirement and the BG has got it covered in this report;
Here’s how it all unfolded:
▪ Brady decided to walk away from the Buccaneers for two reasons. One, per Ohrnberger, was his relationship with Arians. Ohrnberger is former teammates and close friends with a member of the Tampa Bay coaching staff, A.Q. Shipley.
“The retirement announcement wasn’t because of the trouble seeing eye to eye on the offensive game planning, but the relationship was souring,” Ohrnberger wrote on Twitter. “Offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich and Brady would work on the week’s game plan. Arians would later come in and take the red pen to work they’d done. The QB and OC felt undermined, there was tension.”
▪ This doesn’t mean Brady was done playing football. After all, he just finished second in MVP voting and led the NFL in passing yards and touchdown passes.
▪ Payton, the former Saints coach who resigned Jan. 25, also was going to be involved, as first reported by Florio Feb. 28. Brady and Payton have had a relationship over 20 years in the NFL, and they share an agent in Don Yee. Brady was close to joining the Saints in 2020 before Drew Brees decided to return for another year.
▪ On the morning of Feb. 1, Brady announced his retirement — except that he never actually used that word. He said he was “not going to make that competitive commitment anymore.” His choice of words was deliberate.
▪ With his plans with the Dolphins blown up, Brady was left with two choices: stay retired without knowing what he was going to do with his life or return to football.
▪ Actually, there is still one last piece of unresolved business: Brady’s contract. He is on the books for $10.4 million, plus $4.5 million in incentives. The Buccaneers surely will give him a raise. But if there are no extra years tacked on, then the Brady-to-Miami (or San Francisco) rumors will heat up again in 2023. If Brady gets extra years, then we can safely assume that the Glazer family doesn’t want him to play in any other uniform.
Everything was going according to plan until Brian Flores sued the Dolphins for their racist hiring practices and blew the whole plan up.
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