Tom Brady Finally Reveals He Left The Patriots To Bucs Due To Tension Between Him And Bill Belichick

The moment we’ve all been waiting for – Tom Brady spills the tea on why he ditched the Patriots and joined the Bucs! Brace yourselves, because it’s all about the tension between him and Bill Belichick. Yes, you heard it right!

It’s no secret that Tom and Bill had their fair share of disagreements and clashes over the years. The dynamic duo that we all admired in the NFL had some serious drama going on. It’s like a soap opera, but with football.

According to Tom, he just couldn’t handle the tension anymore. It was like a pressure cooker ready to explode, and he decided it was time to make a move. We can’t say we blame him, who wants to work in a toxic environment?

‘After twenty years together, a natural tension had developed between where Coach Belichick and I were headed in our careers, and where the Patriots were moving as a franchise,’ Brady wrote in his newsletter.

‘It was the kind of tension that could only be resolved by some kind of split or one of us reassessing our priorities.’

Brady noted that entering free agency had been a ‘creeping decision that lived passively in the back of mind’ for two or three years before his eventual move to Tampa Bay.

‘Until March of 2020 when a whirlwind of a few days made me realize that a decision was coming sooner rather than later,’ he said.

Brady’s comments are a rather stark departure from his comments on the Pat McAfee Show last year, when he suggested the rumors of a rift between him and Belichick were largely overblown.

‘My respect for Coach Belichick is pretty well documented,’ he said in January 2024. ‘He was an incredible leader and coach for our team. And I tried to do my best every single day that I took the field; I knew that he did the same thing.

‘And I think that’s why I respected his coaching so much. Toward the later part of my career, I really think there was so much people trying to create some division that some of it – most of it – was untrue. But it’s just the way the world works.’

Before moving to Tampa Bay, Brady assessed his priorities as ‘someone headed into their forties with school-age kids and twenty years worth of battle scars,’ he said now, mentioning the presence of skill position players, weather and other factors.

‘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,’ he said.

‘Me and coach Belichick, we did what we loved and competed for 20 years together,’ Brady said in the docuseries, as quoted by The Athletic. ‘But I wasn’t going to sign another contract [in New England] even if I wanted to play until [I was] 50. Based on how things had gone, I wasn’t going to sign up for more of it.’

Now, we don’t want to stir up even more drama, but it’s safe to say that the Patriots and the Buccaneers will have quite the showdown when they face each other. It’s like watching an episode of a reality show, but with football helmets and shoulder pads.

So there you have it, folks. Tom Brady finally spilled the beans on why he made the switch to the Bucs, and it all comes down to the tension between him and his former coach. Drama, drama, drama!

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