{"id":76981,"date":"2020-03-24T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=76981"},"modified":"2021-09-01T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T11:24:02","slug":"an-uncertain-tom-brady-braces-for-his-next-act-with-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/an-uncertain-tom-brady-braces-for-his-next-act-with-buccaneers\/","title":{"rendered":"An Uncertain Tom Brady Braces For His Next Act With Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the opening minutes of Tuesday&#8217;s 30-minute conference call with Tom Brady, you could sense something was very different. <\/p>\n<p>There was a tone of uncertainty in the soon-to-be 43-year-old&#8217;s voice. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t that he was disappointed or disgruntled. He was just unsure. It was a tone we really haven&#8217;t ever heard from Brady. <\/p>\n<p>Who could blame him? For the first time since he was a 22-year-old out of the University of Michigan, he&#8217;ll have a different employer. All of us can imagine how uncertain we would feel about leaving a comfortable work environment after 21 years. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not going to make predictions about how the next few months are going to go and I don\u2019t really know what\u2019s going to happen and what\u2019s predicted with our access to the team facilities and so forth,&#8221; Brady said. &#8220;I\u2019m going to do the best I can to be in conversation with guys and try to get together and find ways to meet up in different places and get to work in that sense. Technology is an amazing thing and we\u2019re going to use the technology as best we can to try to get to know each other and for me, they\u2019re ahead of me on what they need to know in terms of the offense. So I\u2019ve really got to get up to speed with the things they already know and their terminology. It\u2019s a lot of time and energy, but that\u2019s what I love to do. The only way to start it is to start doing it, so that\u2019s what I\u2019ve got to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Reacting To Tom Brady&#039;s Introductory Conference Call With Buccaneers | Patriots Press Pass\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xthcye2jXGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was Brady&#8217;s first act with a new team. And it just seemed so surreal. In the midst of a global coronavirus pandemic and the uncertainty of when things might get back to normal in the rest of the world, Brady was not immune to the doubt about the future. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are logistical things that are happening, not just for me \u2013 everyone is going through life in a different way right now,&#8221; Brady said. &#8220;There is still a lot of change happening and you\u2019ve just got to try and manage it as best as possible. Everyone seems to be in different locations, but I think the important part is that everyone is trying to make it work. Everyone is trying to figure out how to adjust and how to adapt to the new reality that we\u2019re all facing. You\u2019ve seen a lot of these other leagues that are being canceled [or] delayed. We as football players, there are aspects of our offseason that have changed and I\u2019m sure will change to a degree. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, that doesn\u2019t stop me from figuring out what I\u2019ve got to do in my professional life to try to still learn the things I need to learn and train the way I need to train. As far as I know, there is nothing that delays the start of our season to this point and I\u2019ve got to do everything I can to be prepared as I would in an offseason where we weren\u2019t dealing with what we\u2019re dealing with. Again, I\u2019m not making any predictions about that. I\u2019m just going to take it day-by-day with how I\u2019m doing, and I\u2019m going to try and learn things I need to learn. One day at a time is definitely not a clich\u00e9 in the way that I\u2019m trying to live my life right now. It\u2019s just been a new reality for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brady wasn&#8217;t about to go down a publicly vindictive path Tuesday. He&#8217;ll leave that to the pundits. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not responsible for how other people will say certain things,&#8221; Brady said. &#8220;I think Mr. Kraft has been a great influence in my life and I\u2019m so grateful for two decades [with New England]. It\u2019s been an amazing thing for my family and I\u2019m sure when I\u2019m done playing I\u2019ll look back and have a chance to reevaluate my entire career, but at the same time I\u2019m excited for this opportunity that I have. I can only speak about how I feel. I wrote about that in my social media the other day. This was getting to be a free agent and having the opportunity to join the Bucs is something that I was really excited about and that\u2019s why we\u2019re at where we\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brady denied being disappointed at the lack of a competing offer from the Patriots once free agency opened. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a great deal of respect for \u2013 there\u2019s nobody who\u2019s a bigger fan of the New England Patriots than me,&#8221; Brady insisted. &#8220;I have nothing but total respect and love. I\u2019m so grateful to Mr. Kraft and the organization and Coach [Bill] Belichick and all the coaches and obviously all my teammates. It\u2019s been a lot of days responding to a lot of incredible text messages from my teammates, from former teammates, from a lot of great people I got to meet over the years. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have so many great relationships that will be maintained and I think that\u2019s the greatest gift that football has brought me is the relationships that I\u2019ve had with so many of the people I\u2019ve worked with. It\u2019ll certainly be different, but at the same time that\u2019s the way life can be at times. What won\u2019t be different is my approach to the game, my approach to what my roles and responsibilities are and I\u2019m going go out and do the best I can every day and do my best to put this team in a position to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What would&#8217;ve kept Brady in New England?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about the past because that\u2019s not relevant to what\u2019s important in my future and what\u2019s going on this offseason for me,&#8221; Brady said. &#8220;I had nothing but two decades of incredible experience and learning from some the best players, the best coaches and the ownership of the team. I think for all of us, things in life can change and you\u2019ve got to be able to adapt and evolve and with each of those changes come different opportunities to learn and grow, and that\u2019s where I\u2019m at. Any time you leave somewhere it\u2019s emotional and the transition has been very emotional with a lot of guys that I\u2019ve talked to that I\u2019ve shared the field with because the relationships are what matter most to me and I\u2019m going to be friends with my teammates, my former teammates and coaches for the rest of my life. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s not going to leave just because I\u2019m wearing a different jersey, but at the same time for me, the new jersey I\u2019m wearing, I\u2019m prepared to give them every bit of commitment I\u2019ve had my entire career to be the best I could be to give this team be the best it could be. I did say there\u2019s not one person that makes a team. It\u2019s every single person doing their job every day that\u2019s committed and determined to be the best. I\u2019m a very disciplined quarterback and I try to follow through on the things I\u2019m committed to and I try to work every day to be the best I can be. That\u2019s what I\u2019m going to try to push my teammates to do and I\u2019m just excited to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once Brady gets comfortable, he&#8217;s going to have the weapons he desperately wanted his final few years in New England. Yes, he had Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski during the final Super Bowl run in 2018. But in Tampa, he&#8217;s going to have receivers Mike Evans and Chris Godwin and tight ends OJ Howard and Cameron Brate. And he&#8217;s going to have a creative offensive guru in head coach Bruce Arians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think we do our due diligence every year after a season to see how we can better our football team and better our organization,&#8221; Arians said. &#8220;When we looked at everybody that might be available at the quarterback position, obviously really never dreaming that Tom would be available, but if he was, he was going to be our number one choice. Mainly because he can do everything that we want to do in our offense, but more than that it\u2019s his leadership ability that we need in our locker room to get where we want to go. Once that became a reality it was full bore ahead, let\u2019s see what we\u2019ve got to do and see if we can get this done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When exactly did Brady decide to move on from Foxboro? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really the night that I spoke with Mr. Kraft and asked if I could come over and see him,&#8221; Brady said. &#8220;We spoke and had a great conversation and I just wanted to express what he\u2019s meant to me in my life. We spoke with Coach Belichick at the same time \u2013 we were in different locations, so we talked to him and it was a great conversation. I got a chance to talk to Jonathan Kraft as well. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All three of those guys have been involved with so many important decisions in my life \u2013 career-related, personal-related \u2013 and I leave there with great admiration for the people in that organization. It\u2019s a world-class, first-class organization in every way and I wanted to leave it that way, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brady and Kraft have long been neighbors in the Boston area. Bill Belichick was the third party in the conversation. That conversation marked the end. Appropriate that Brady and Kraft were together and Belichick, presumably, was on the other end of a call. <\/p>\n<p>There were those who thought Brady would never go down the path of Joe Namath, Brett Favre and his childhood idol Joe Montana and finish playing in a different uniform, and that Robert Kraft would never let it happen. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was at Joe\u2019s last game at Candlestick Park,&#8221; Brady related. &#8220;I actually went up there and saw it with my friend. I\u2019ll never forget that. He was an incredible player. He and Steve Young were my quarterback idols growing up. I just think life, it continues to change for all of us. Having the opportunity for me to continue to play football and lead a team is something that I love doing. I\u2019ve loved playing this sport since I was a kid, since I was throwing footballs in the parking lot at Candlestick. I still love doing that today. I train hard. I try to keep my body as physically fit as possible. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mentally, I try to stay sharp, although it is going to be a different challenge this year in learning. I\u2019m going to do everything I can to do the best I possibly can. I\u2019m just excited to embrace this opportunity and see it for what it is, which is [that] a lot of guys that have been a part of this team, they want to be the best they can be and they want to achieve the highest goal. I\u2019ve been fortunate to be a part of that. There\u2019s no way to do it \u2013 you can\u2019t talk your way into it. It\u2019s a lot of hard work, it\u2019s a lot of commitment and it\u2019s a lot of people that are just aligned trying to do the right thing. Again, I don\u2019t know when our first OTA will be, but I\u2019m sure there will be a lot of guys [there] that I am excited to meet. I\u2019m going to try to get the best out of myself and the best out of them. It\u2019s all going to be dependent on the guys in the building and in the facility to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were no slings and arrows Tuesday, just well wishes for a franchise he leaves as the greatest player in its history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know the Patriots have a great team, they always do \u2013 they have great players, great leadership, great coaches \u2013 and I certainly wish them the best. But for me, I\u2019ve got to transition and focus on the opportunity that I have to make the current situation I\u2019m in as best as I can. They hired me to do a job here and I\u2019m going to go in there and do it like you\u2019ve always seen me do for a long time, like the fans have always seen me do, like opposing coaches, my teammates have seen me do. I\u2019m going to give it everything I\u2019ve got like I\u2019ve done every day of my life for as long as I\u2019ve been playing this sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just in a much different place. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the opening minutes of Tuesday&#8217;s 30-minute conference call with Tom Brady, you could sense something was very different. There was a tone of uncertainty in the soon-to-be 43-year-old&#8217;s voice. It wasn&#8217;t that he was disappointed or disgruntled. He was just unsure. It was a tone we really haven&#8217;t ever heard from Brady. 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