Tom Brady says that during his last years in New England, he began to realize that he and coach Bill Belichick were not on the same wavelength.
In a reflection on the NFL free agency he published on his website, Brady spoke of the only time he was a free agent: when he left New England for Tampa Bay five years ago. Brady says that in the last years of his last contract with the Patriots, he knew that something should change.
“For me, it was a creeping decision that passed passively in the back of the mind for 2-3 years until March 2020, when a whirlwind of a few days made me realize that a decision arrived earlier than late,” wrote Brady. “The reality was, after twenty years together, a natural tension had developed between the place where coach Belichick and I are heading in our career, and where the patriots were traveling in franchise. It was the kind of tension that could only be resolved by a kind of division Or one of us reassesses our priorities. »»
Brady says that by weighing the patriots, he listed his most important priorities and came to the conclusion that the Buccaneers were better suited to him.
“What I finished with a list of about twenty things that I then classified and classified on a laid scale of 1 to 3,” wrote Brady. “The presence of skills players was a 3 in terms of importance, for example, and the BUCs were classified in 3 because of guys like Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, the same goes for the head coach. It was a time of 3 years, and Tampa scored a 3 with Bruce Arians. In the end, I chose Tampa, almost exactly five years ago now, because, on the whole, he ranked higher than New England along these twenty dimensions. »»
The split with Belichick and the Patost worked well for Brady, who won the Super Bowl in his first year in Tampa Bay.
