Bucs QB Tom Brady Talks About ‘Emotions,’ What Will Ultimately Cause Him to Retire

Tom is talking like this season could be it.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Tom Brady has beat Father Time for years, but even he knows that he’s eventually going to have to hang it up. Tom has admitted that this year in his 23rd season has a different feel than others. Tom spoke about what will ultimately cause him to retire on his podcast with Jim Grey.

“I’m feeling more than things in the past for some reason,” Brady told host Jim Gray on his weekly “Let’s Go!” podcast. “You know, I’m just really feeling intensely my emotions. And I feel like I always have that, but I think when you get close to the end…

“I don’t know exactly where I’m at with that and there’s no decision to be made. It’s not like I have 10 years left. I definitely don’t have that. So all these, I just am never gonna take for granted, you know?”

It sounds like Brady wants to start living a normal life, which his impossible while you play in the NFL for as long  as he has.

“I haven’t had a Christmas in 23 years and I haven’t had a Thanksgiving in 23 years,” Brady said. “I haven’t celebrated birthdays with people that I care about that are, you know, born from August to late January. And you know, I’m not able to be at funerals and I’m not able to be at weddings.

“I think there comes a point in your life where you say, ‘You know what? I had my fill and it’s enough and time to go on, to move into other parts of life.’ I push myself to the max and I got everything I could out of my ability.”

Brady said he still gets plenty of joy out of the game he’s been playing for decades.

“For me, the ability to play and love what I’m doing in year 23 with a new group of teammates and a really committed team — it’s really fun for me,” Brady said. “I still enjoy [it], I feel it out there, I feel the joy, I feel the happiness, I feel the camaraderie.”

Sounds more and more like this season will be Tom’s final swan song, win or lose.

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