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Tom Brady deserves a big thank you whenever he retires
And all Football America needs to say when Tom Brady walks away: Thanks, Tom. Thanks for the memories.
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Where there is smoke there is fire, and there is plenty of smoke, but Team Tom Brady wants us to wait before we celebrate his Greatest Of All Time career.
The tributes came flying in from all across the NFL following reports that Brady has decided to retire, before Tom Brady Sr. said his son is not retiring, that an online publication had started circulating an unsubstantiated rumor.
Brady’s Super Bowl XXXVI offensive coordinator, Charlie Weis, called me to direct me to his own tweet: “Here is what I know. It would be a cold day in hell before Tommy Brady would retire the day before the championship games. He would never want to be a distraction bringing attention to him and away from the games. It may be true, but ‘Come on Man!’ ”
It makes a lot of sense.
Perhaps Brady has yet to make up his mind.
Perhaps he has made up his mind but doesn’t want to make it public now.
He couldn’t fly like Michael Jordan.
He couldn’t move like Michael Vick or Lamar Jackson. He couldn’t improvise like Patrick Mahomes. He couldn’t scramble like Fran Tarkenton. He didn’t have Dan Marino’s release or Josh Allen’s arm. He couldn’t beat Eli Manning in the Super Bowl.
All he did was make himself from a skinny afterthought, a sixth-round draft pick out of Michigan, to The GOAT in the Arena.