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One of the greatest eras in NFL history has come to an end with Tom Brady and coach Bill Belichick retiring from the game. During their years together with the New England Patriots, they won six championship rings, creating a legendary team that dominated the league. However, in 2020, Brady decided to make the decision to leave the Patriots and join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he continued his career by winning another Lombardi Trophy.
In a recent interview, Brady revealed what really motivated his departure from New England. Although he and Belichick have been incredibly successful, he points out that, over the years of working together, tensions appeared.
"That decision I made in March 2020 carried with it a feeling that lasted for two, three years. A natural tension developed between coach Belichick and myself, which could only be resolved by a separation," said Brady.
The great NFL player pointed out that such tensions could only be resolved with splitting.
Tom Brady on Tampa Bay
When asked why he chose Tampa Bay as a free agent, Brady said,
"I asked myself, as someone headed into their forties with school-age kids and twenty years worth of battle scars, what truly mattered to me now?" he continued. "What I ended up with was a list of about twenty things that I then ranked and graded on a weighted scale from 1 to 3.
In the end, I chose Tampa, almost exactly five years ago now, because, in the aggregate, it graded out higher than New England along those twenty or so dimensions. It’s not much more complicated than that."
The 47-year-old never had doubts about his decisions, and always followed his feelings and intuition. Although his decisions once attracted various reactions, even extremely negative ones, the American NFL player never went deeper into the reactions of others, believing that he was doing the right things for himself.
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