@JeffDarlington: Tom Brady is retiring from football after 22 extraordinary seasons, multiple sources tell @AdamSchefter and me.
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He’s the G.O.A.T
Rodgers is a fart in the wind.
Weird,
No drama, no demands. No retirement tour.
Either AR goes to the Buccs or he stays in Green Bay. Now a very high probability of getting to the Super Bowl with either team.
@Iowacheese posted:Weird,
No drama, no demands. No retirement tour.
Right? He should consult the two assholes who have QB’d our team for the last 30 years.
He must not be very good if there's no fanfare.
@Blair Kiel posted:He’s the G.O.A.T
Rodgers is a fart in the wind.
Tampa Bay got the same # of SB wins out of Tom Brady in 2 years as Green Bay did in 14 years with Rodge and in 16 years with Favre.
@Iowacheese posted:Weird,
No drama, no demands. No retirement tour.
Well, he did force his way out of New England.
bye. maybe in 10 years when I am done being done with him, I may actually appreciate that we saw the goat play...for now, bye.
Giselle must have said retire or no more nookie.
@Dr._Bob posted:He must not be very good if there's no fanfare.
If you plan on watching football tomorrow you will be violated with Brady bullshit
@GBFanForLife posted:If you plan on watching football tomorrow you will be violated with Brady bullshit
How is this different than any other week in the NFL.
Our goat will be miffed that Tommy has the spotlight.
AR's ego wouldn't allow him to retire now.
He'd have to go into the HOF with Brady and possibly big Ben.
@GBFanForLife posted:If you plan on watching football tomorrow you will be violated with Brady bullshit
There's football tomorrow? 
@bvan posted:AR's ego wouldn't allow him to retire now.
He'd have to go into the HOF with Brady and possibly big Ben.
If he made first ballot 
@GBFanForLife posted:If you plan on watching football tomorrow you will be violated with Brady bullshit
Damn, you’re right……ugh. 🤮
This should give Rodgers adequate time to match or possibly surpass Brady’s Super Bowl wins record.
There’s dozens of NFL Qbs that had more raw physical gifts than Brady. But 3 things elevated Brady over all those guys.
First, he had an incredibly quick mind and great field vision that only a small handful of QBs in NFL history could match. 2nd, he had an incredible ability to focus and play at his highest level when games got tight and he needed to make something happen.
Third, to be honest, he was a little bit lucky. He got paired with the greatest NFL defensive mind of the modern era and arguably the greatest coach/talent evaluator in the past 50 years. It was a perfect match that led to 6 of his 7 titles.
I will say this, I listened to Scott Pioli talk about him and tell a story about how incredibly hard Brady worked before he even got his chance to be the starting QB for the Pats. Said sometimes Brady was the only player working out by himself when the coaches and others were heading home for the night. Sometimes when you’re damn good and you work incredibly hard, you can sort of create your own luck.
@Iowacheese posted:Weird,
No drama, no demands. No retirement tour.
Which is why he announced it just before the conference championships and media blitz rather than after the season?
@GBFanForLife posted:If you plan on watching football tomorrow you will be violated with Brady bullshit
It can’t be worse than the commercials.
The report is from Schefter - how accurate can it be? I would wait for it to come from Brady's mouth. Then we would have wait to see if he "unretires" - that could be a period of months or years - depending. If a trade doesn't happen then we are one small step closer to making it a reality. Finally, signing the retirement documents would have to happen to finalize the "deal". I am sure that Brady can afford retirement - just guessing ...........
Divot...
Nice P Davidson/AR bit in the SNL intro
Edit: LMAO, now they're doing Appleton shtik..
@Ghost of Lambeau posted:I am sure that Brady can afford retirement - just guessing ...........
ya think! Brady has earned $ 292 in his playing career. The most ever to date for an NFL player. And his wife has earned more! 😂
@Ghost of Lambeau posted:The report is from Schefter - how accurate can it be? I would wait for it to come from Brady's mouth. Then we would have wait to see if he "unretires" - that could be a period of months or years - depending. If a trade doesn't happen then we are one small step closer to making it a reality. Finally, signing the retirement documents would have to happen to finalize the "deal". I am sure that Brady can afford retirement - just guessing ...........
I'm waiting for Mark Schlereth to chime in before I recruit TB12 for the shuffleboard team at Sunnyside Estates.
@PA green & gold posted:ya think! Brady has earned $ 292 in his playing career. The most ever to date for an NFL player. And his wife has earned more! 😂
What? With all those "discounts" he gave his teams that everyone says every QB should give?
@PA green & gold posted:ya think! Brady has earned $ 292 in his playing career. The most ever to date for an NFL player. And his wife has earned more! 😂
I was alluding to that. And I was thinking about all the under the table payments that NE could have been paying Brady. Has the NFL audited the NE finances lately? 
Apparently, Tom Brady hasn't made up his mind. The Schefter miss-information machine has done it again.
@Ghost of Lambeau posted:I was alluding to that. And I was thinking about all the under the table payments that NE could have been paying Brady. Has the NFL audited the NE finances lately?
Antonio Brown alluded to the fact that he was paying Brady's fitness company (TB12) 100K a year.
It certainly seems like Brady had a side hustle to make some extra money with his fitness company. The tax structures were probably such that the company was netting a lot more than if the money had come from a direct contract that would count on the salary cap (I'm sure there are tax experts on here that know a lot more about that than I do). Was the Patriots organization also paying the company for consulting services? Was Bob Kraft putting some money in as a silent investor? How about the last two years with the Bucs and the Glazers? That's the kind of things the league should be looking into. Don't hold your breath on that ever happening. We are about as likely to see any of that type of information as we are to see Bob Kraft's massage tape.
Of course, the NFL did some proactive steps to shield themselves from charges they gave preferential treatment to Bob Kraft with deflategate. The optics of that 4-game suspension of Brady are about the same as Michael Jordan's almost-two-year foray into playing baseball. It probably was exactly what we saw, but there is some room for other interpretations.
https://www.barstoolsports.com...g-about-tb12-fitness
On this morning's Toucher & Rich show, Albert Breer said he was at Tampa's training camp and reported there were no less than 27 Buccaneers players that were signed onto TB12. Twenty seven! Assuming they all paid the same up front fee that Brown did, that's 27 X $100,000 = $2.7 million, just from Brady's teammates alone. (Note: I belong to a national chain that charges me 10 bucks a month with no annual fee and I can cancel at any time. For a hundred grand I'd demand the Captain America Super-Soldier Serum and look like Chris Evans for eternity. Or Tom Brady.) Which begs the question, how sketchy is this arrangement?
I am shocked that people would suspect Brady or the Patriots of cheating.
Suspect Brady just wanted to announce it on his own terms and is displeased with the leak. Appreciate his ability even more to seize on the opportunities as they occur in critical games after watching how the Packers exited the last two years.