‘It was simply time to maneuver on’: NFL legend Tom Brady explains choice behind Tampa Bay Buccaneers change

Tom Brady broke New England hearts by saying final month that he would finish his two-decade period of success with the Patriots and transfer south to Tampa, and in a brand new interview has defined the motivations behind his choice.

Brady inked a two-year, multi-million-dollar cope with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the place it’s hoped that the person thought-about the best quarterback of all time can transplant his magic contact to a Florida franchise that has struggled in latest seasons. 

It’s hoped that with Brady guiding a receiving corps led by the ever-dangerous Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, Tampa may see only a sliver of the kind of success he helped convey to New England after he was drafted with the 199th choose again in 2000.

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Six Tremendous Bowl rings later, Brady’s standing as a future Corridor of Famer is ready in stone and he’s hoping that he may help information his new franchise to growing their very own successful tradition – even, maybe, if that comes on the expense of his former teammates in New England. 

Brady’s final yr with the Patriots noticed them eradicated from the playoffs within the Wild Card spherical and, in direct distinction to the legacy he leaves behind him, his ultimate go in a Patriots uniform was an interception.

Talking at size for the primary time about his choice to depart the workforce for which he turned an icon, Brady defined that he had come to the conclusion that it was time to maneuver on from the franchise.

“It was simply time to maneuver on,” Brady advised Howard Stern on his Sirius XM radio present.

“I do not know what to say aside from that. I completed every thing I may in 20 years with an unbelievable group, an unbelievable group of individuals, and that can by no means change.

“No-one can ever take that away from me, nobody can ever take these experiences or Tremendous Bowl championships away from us.”

Brady’s time in New England will seemingly by no means be equalled. In twenty seasons, he went to an unbelievable 9 Tremendous Bowls and was named MVP within the sport’s showpiece fixture a minimum of 4 instances.

Moreover, he developed the kind of partnership with head coach Invoice Belichick which may solely be actually likened to the period of success loved by the Sir Alex Ferguson/Roy Keane tandem a few years in the past, however with out the highly-publicized falling out in direction of the top – one thing Brady particularly confirmed in the course of the interview. 

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Now although, it’s on to the subsequent one for Brady. His new workforce hasn’t made the playoffs since 2007, however now look much better outfitted to finish that barren run. A seventh ring, Brady says, could be good – however there may be extra to his sport than simply gathering trophies.

“I by no means cared about legacy,” he defined.

“I by no means as soon as, after I was in highschool, mentioned, ‘man, I am unable to look ahead to what my soccer legacy seems like’. That is simply not me. That is simply not my character.”