Tom Brady Opens up About “Tension” With Bill Belichick

Tom Brady finally spoke out about the events that led to the end of his incredible 20-season tenure with the New England Patriots.

The 47-year-old football legend began by talking about his experience as a broadcaster who has already watched more than 200 free agents switch teams. Then he plunged straight in. He stated: “I was only involved in free agency once, at the tail-end of my career,” 

 “For me, it was a creeping decision that lived passively in the back of my mind for 2-3 years until March of 2020 when a whirlwind of a few days made me realize that a decision was coming sooner rather than later.”

Tom Brady speaks about the inevitable tension between him and Bill Belichick

Next came the quarterback’s admission on his friendship with legendary coach Bill Belichick, who had led the Patriots—and Brady—to six Super Bowl victories:

“After twenty years together, a natural tension had developed between where Coach Bellichick and I were headed in our careers, and where the Patriots were moving as a franchise. It was the kind of tension that could only be resolved by some kind of split.”

Brady ultimately decided to play for the Buccaneers in Tampa Bay after evaluating his life in his forties with school-age children and 20 years of “battle scars.”

“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 aggregate, it graded out higher than New England along those twenty or so dimensions. It’s not much more complicated than that.”

Wow. It’s not every day you see Tom Brady reveal much about his relationship with Bill.

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