When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ season ended earlier this week in the American football NFL series with a first-round playoff loss to Dallas, intense speculation immediately began about the megastar About Tom Brady. What will he do next? Will the career continue? In which club would you continue your career?
Similar questions were also asked a year ago. At that time, Brady said that he was ending his extensive and, above all, successful playing career. However, Brady, who was dubbed the best American football player of all time, reversed his decision during the same spring.
As a top athlete, Brady, who has reached the respectable age of 45, has won the NFL championship seven times. That’s an all-time record. He has been named the best player of the Super Bowl final five times.
He has won six of the championships in the jersey of the New England Patriots. The last championship was a couple of years ago, when he was already playing for Tampa.
The season that ended was challenging for both Tampa and Brady, who is usually great as a quarterback. Tampa was a far cry from the team it was in its championship season.
Through Brady, the problems of the civil side were also tinged. In October, it was reported that Brady and his wife Gisele Bundchen are applying divorce (you move to another service). The couple has two children together. Brady also has a teenage son from his previous relationship.
– This was a really difficult season. However, never before has a quarterback thrown as many touchdowns in one season as Brady has this season. Of course, there are more games and the playing style is also different now, C Morelle explaining NFL games Mika Laurila resemble.
Tantrums
The head coach of the Finnish national soccer team and a well-known expert Mikko Koikkalainen calls through Brady a big disappointment.
– Surely things outside the field also had an effect. On the field, however, he was nowhere near the level he was last year, when he could very well have been awarded MVP.
On the field, Brady didn’t always stay cool.
– Amazing tantrums. It was behavior the likes of which has not been seen before, says Koikkalainen.
“Brady doesn’t even know himself”
Brady is a free agent after this season. So, in practice, he can sign a contract with any team.
Laurila gives an interesting assessment of Brady’s situation.
– It is pointless for us to speculate whether the career will continue or not. We don’t know that, because Tom Brady himself doesn’t know that right now. I’m absolutely sure of that, Lauri says.
– Playing NFL quarterback is not necessarily always the job of family men. At least not as long as he’s been doing it. This must have weighed on the scales.
Koikkailainen believes that Brady’s playing career will continue.
– However, there is no certainty about this.
In what company?
When you are a top athlete over 40, quitting is all the more relevant. However, Brady is an athlete with an unbridled passion for playing and winning. The Washington Post Jerry Brewer wrote in his column (you will switch to another service) aptly, that Brady doesn’t know how to quit.
– He is still not ready to abandon the gilded football life, where he is chasing the things he has already achieved.
So where would Brady’s playing career continue?
The Las Vegas Raiders, Tennessee Titans and San Francisco 49ers have been suggested in the public as Brady’s possible new club. Returning to his old club, the Patriots, is also an option for CNN by (you switch to another service).
According to Koikkailainen, the natural club option is the Las Vegas Raiders, whose head coach is already well known to Brady Josh McDaniels. He served as the offensive coordinator for the Patriots.
– There would be too Davante Adams, who is one of the best wingers in the league. Brady is no longer that game-changing player. However, the Raiders would be a natural option, Koikkalainen says.
A lucrative expert contract
Brady’s post-career plans are at least partially clear. TV channel Fox announced in May that Brady will become an analyst for the channel. The New York Post by (you switch to another service) the duration of the contract is ten years and the value is 375 million dollars, i.e. 356 million euros.
Koikkailainen sees that Brady can create a good career as an expert. However, he does not believe in coaching.
– He would certainly be a good coach, but that would require a completely different kind of commitment. You have to leave time for the children, at least at the beginning. Even a commentator’s laundry takes time at the top level, but we are only talking about a few tens of hours compared to coaching, Koikkalainen knows.
According to Laurila, Brady’s willpower is one of the most essential reasons why he has been at the top for so long. The attitude towards, for example, sleep, food, body care and honing technology has always been top class.
– Does Brady get the same satisfaction from being a pundit on Fox? He is thinking about whether it is enough, Laurila estimates.
The NFL quarterfinals will be played on January 21–23 Finnish time. (In parentheses is the team’s ranking in the regular season in its own conference)
AFC Conference:
Cincinnati Bengals (3) – Buffalo Bills (2)
Jacksonville Jaguars (4) – Kansas City Chiefs (1)
NFC Conference:
Dallas Cowboys (5) – San Francisco 49ers (2)
NY Giants (6) – Philadelphia Eagles (1)
The final game, the Super Bowl, will be played Finnish time on the night before Monday, February 13. in Arizona at State Farm Stadium.