- After 22 NFL seasons, Tom Brady is expected to retire at 44.
- His contract also included an additional year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
- Brady acknowledged that the football season has taken a toll and that he now has less time for his family.
Multiple sources claim that Tom Brady’s NFL career has ended.
Brady is still under contract for another year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was previously His goal was to play till he was 45, he stated.He’ll be turning 31 in August, which is one month before the 2022 season begins.
However, the 44-year old quarterback may have been done a year earlier than those thresholds and may have suggested why on Sirius XM’s podcast.Let’s Go!” He said taking hits on the football field at this point in his life isn’t ideal for his body, or his marriage with his wife Gisele Bündchen.
“My wife is my biggest supporter, it pains her to see me get hit out there. She deserves what she needs from me as a husband and my kids deserve what they need from me as a dad,”Brady suggested hosting Jim Gray. “We think we’re going to live forever, we’re not. We think we’re going to play forever, we’re not.”
Brady’s long and successful career is heavily linked to his dedication and discipline to following a strict lifestyle, as he described in his 2017 book. “The TB12 Method.”His wellness and diet practices are well-documented and he shares them with his TB12 customers.
But a strict diet, lifestyle, and impressive talent will not prevent the inevitable: that football takes a physical toll on the body, and demands the majority of his time.
Brady has received a physical punishment
The Los Angeles Rams sacked Brady three times in Tampa Bay’s 30-27 defeat in the divisional round. At 44, that brought his total of sacks to 25.
Brady has been a successful professional athlete throughout his career. taken 543 sacks — more quarterback hitsthan any player in NFL history.
Brady has not been hurt by the hits. Since 2008, when he was injured in the ACL tear that caused him to miss 15 games of the season, he has not missed a single game.
Brady may feel the pains of those hits slowly creeping back over time.
ResearchNFL players have drawn a connection between osteoarthritis and repetitive lower- to mid-body hits. Players have also shared their experiences with pain in retirement.
Joe Montana, San Francisco 49ers Hall-of-Famer Brady’s favorite childhood celebrityTell me. USA Today he can’t run any more due to severe arthritis after playing 15 years and winning four Super Bowls. Green Bay Packers Hall-of-Famer Brett Favre (52) held the record of most sacks taken prior to Brady. According to Favre, he was so pain-stricken during his post-playing career, he turned to painkillers to help him. Sports Illustrated.
Brady may have received more punishment per hit than the ones that came before him.
The NFL’s players are getting bigger and more agile in recent years. Trends in NFL Scouting Combine. According to the book, increased speed and weight are causing players to collide, particularly quarterbacks. “Football Physics: The Science of the Game,” NPR reported.
The data suggest that Brady was hit with more force than Montana and Favre on average.
Brady claims he doesn’t want to spend more of his time with his wife and children.
Brady stated that he didn’t just have to decide if he would return for another season, but also what his family wanted.
Brady and Bündchen have been married since 2009. They have two children, a son named Benjamin who is twelve years old, and Vivian, nine years old.
“I’m gonna spend some time with them and give them what they need because they’ve really been giving me what I need the last six months to do what I love to do,”He said. “I said this a few years ago, it’s what relationships are all about — It’s not always what I want, it’s what we want as a family. I’m gonna spend a lot of time with them and figure out in the future what’s next.”