But Brady, who chose this over marital and familial peace, is going quietest of all. Aaron Rodgers is in power-smug overdrive, Cristiano Ronaldo is awash in petulance at Manchester United as the World Cup approaches, and Matt Ryan lost his job to a guy named after every plumbing supply store operator in the Upper Midwest. In a year of old guys fighting against the jaws of athletic age and all but Justin Verlander losing, Brady's slow fade is the one that seems to inspire the least amount of schadenfreude. It all sounds too pro forma, like the Bucs owe Brady better results instead of Brady inspiring them to better results. We definitely gotta try to turn this thing around because we've got the guys to do it. He's feeling all the same emotions we feel. The type of guy he is, the type of man he is, the type of football player, the type of leader he is-definitely hard. "Just the things he'd won over his career. "It's definitely tough," linebacker Lavonte David said. We're just trying to ball, and it's frustrating when stuff's not working and you don't have the answer in front of you." I wish everything was going as perfect as possible for him, if it is the last year for him, or whatever. "I hope he plays as long as he can," tackle Tristan Wirfs said. That's all he knows is winning, and being 3-5 is not good enough, so we've gotta turn it around, and soon." "Nobody's pointing the finger at Tom Brady," wide receiver Mike Evans said. Still, if football is the catalyst, a season in which his teammates, who are just as 3-5 as he is, are largely feeling sorry for him rather than merely themselves, is quite assuredly not what he had in mind. Fortunately for all of society, our opinions don't matter, and if they did, we'd do society a great solid by shutting up about it. Their marital strife has been a largely unkept secret this entire year, or at least since he reneged on his retirement after a month and change, and no matter the truth of things he comes off looking the more self-absorbed and less honorable half of the marriage as a result. So for the army of folks who define football as Brady and Brady as football, every game is a referendum on him, his age, his legacy, and his decision to risk his family for, well, this.Īnd by "risk his family," we are indeed referring to the TMZ report that he and Gisele will file for divorce today, with his need to scratch this one last itch as a main component of the marriage's dissolution. 500 after eight games in his 50,000-year career. The Bucs are 3-5, and as we were incessantly reminded Brady has never been two games below. Now, in the wake of Tampa's desultory loss to Baltimore Thursday night, his teammates on the increasingly uninteresting Buccaneers are feeling sorry for him in postgame quotes. His steady march toward retirement and a broadcasting career that few people outside television executives find compelling continues at a disturbing MPH-mehs per hour. Tom Brady … and already I can hear your eyelids leaden and start to fall.
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