NFL Playoff Thread - Brady's Last Game?

Submitted by XM - Mt 1822 on January 23rd, 2022 at 2:43 PM

Mates,

Divisional round finishes today with the following:

@ Tampa Bradys                  3.0                  LA Staffords  3:00 on NBC

@ K.C.                                  1.5                 Bills   6:30 on CBS

I hadn't thought about it until today, but there is a chance, maybe even a significant chance, that this is Tom Brady's last game.  He has said he would take a month after his season ends to make a decision, but at 44 yrs old with 10 (!) Super Bowls and 7 (!!!) Championship Rings, I mean, what's left if you don't get over the hump today?  Should be a good game.  I'd guess nearly all of us wish Matt Stafford well, glad he won last week, but can he get by the GOAT?

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And that KC v. Buffalo game could be a barn-burner, too.  The way Josh Allen was en fuego last weekend was pretty impressive.   Sunny and cool in K.C. so weather not a big deal to those teams, unlike last night's game in Green Bay on the frozen tundra.  

Our boys in Blue play IU at 3:30, so lots to keep track of.  Commence furious switching back and forth when tip-off arrives.  

Have a fine Sunday.  

XM 

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MaizeBlueA2

January 23rd, 2022 at 2:54 PM ^

Will root for Tom until he retires.

And regardless, I think he plays out the final year of his contract and next year is his last year.

45, like he said, allows the Bucs to find a QB via the draft or free agency. And not that he wants them, a chance to give him his flowers.

If he comes back, the NFL needs to pull an NBA and get Bucs @ NE late in the year next year (I know the NFL doesn't do its schedule like that and opponents have already been announced).

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FireUpChips

January 23rd, 2022 at 3:07 PM ^

If Tom Brady wins the super bowl this year he might earn his right to be in the GOAT conversation. 

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Slim Whitman

January 23rd, 2022 at 3:26 PM ^

I hope TB wins out and then calls it a career. If I can't have that, I want a SF-CIN SB matchup, 40 years after the first one,

TB should ride off into the sunset either way, if only to upstage Rothlisberger at the 2027 HOF like Woodson did to Manning last summer. (I might be being petty.).

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Perkis-Size Me

January 23rd, 2022 at 3:31 PM ^

Would be surreal if this is indeed Brady’s last game, but if the Bucs get whipped today or get beat soundly I can’t image Brady would want to end his career on that note.

Gun to my head, unless they win it all again this season, Brady announces he’s coming back for one last season in 2022-23. His own last dance for unfinished business.

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JMo

January 23rd, 2022 at 4:11 PM ^

Yeah I don't think he'll hang it up either. He put in a top-3 QB and MVP-conversation caliber season. I don't know what the Bucs have coming back in terms of talent, but when healthy, this team was strong and he definitely had a chance to win again.

I keep thinking about Peyton's last season and how he couldn't throw the ball 15 yards down field 2-1 INT to TD ratio his final season. Brady is a borderline MVP and he's gonna hang em up?

At this point I assume Brady comes back until he doesn't. He could be 55 years old and getting AARP newsletters and senior discounts on coffee at McDonalds and I'd still believe. What evidence is there he wont, right?

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