{"id":35129,"date":"2022-06-03T15:12:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tom-brady-explains-why-he-felt-pressure-to-end-brief-retirement\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:12:04","slug":"tom-brady-explains-why-he-felt-pressure-to-end-brief-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tom-brady-explains-why-he-felt-pressure-to-end-brief-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady explains why he felt &#8216;pressure&#8217; to end brief retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Tom Brady is now elaborating on his decision to end his retirement in March after a whole 40 days.<\/p>\n<p>During a Q&#038;A with Ernie Johnson on Wednesday night as part of &#8220;The Match&#8221; golf event, the 44-year-old quarterback said he &#8220;felt some pressure&#8221; to return with free agency looming, despite announcing in February his decision to step away and focus on responsibilities outside of football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this stage, it&#8217;s like 55% yes and 45% no.  It&#8217;s not 100-0.  That&#8217;s just the reality.  It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m not 100% committed, it&#8217;s just as soon as I make the commitment to do it, it&#8217;s like, &#8216;Ugh.  All right, here we go, &#8216;\u201dBrady said, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s like running a marathon.  You can&#8217;t decide two weeks before the marathon, &#8216;Hey, I&#8217;m going to start running.&#8217;  We got right to free agency and I felt some pressure to do it and talked to the team and organization, and it all worked out. &#8220;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady came out of retirement in March 2022 after 40 days<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brady is now back with the Buccaneers for his third season, and 23rd overall.  Once the decision was made, Brady notified teammates to give them a heads up, including wide receiver Chris Godwin, who inked a three-year, $ 60 million deal to remain in Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, I just love the competition on the field.  And last year was a very bitter ending to a season and we&#8217;ve got to make a lot of corrections to try to improve and put ourselves in a better position to succeed moving forward, \u201dBrady told ESPN in April.<\/p>\n<p>Though Brady will now have the opportunity to make a run for his eigth Super Bowl title, the quarterback added Wednesday that he was \u201cpartly\u201d ready to call it a career after the Buccaneers&#8217; Divisional Round ouster to the now-Super Bowl champion Rams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think when you&#8217;re their [Mahomes\u2019 and Allen\u2019s] age, if you were to ask me, &#8216;Are you going to play football next year?&#8217;  I would say there&#8217;s a 100% chance I&#8217;m playing.  And I think as I&#8217;ve gotten older, that&#8217;s changed because I have other responsibilities, \u201dBrady said of the AFC powerhouses, both of whom are 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the responsibilities are many people taking care of me and things that I have off the field that are really important to me like my family, my kids;  my wife&#8217;s done an amazing job of that.  That&#8217;s a big commitment from her, so it&#8217;s harder when you get older.  I don&#8217;t even think they know what&#8217;s coming.  Aaron [Rodgers] knows these things because your life gets bigger as we all do, our life gets more full &#8211; there&#8217;s more responsibilities. &#8220;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/tom-brady-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tom Brady walks off the field in January 2022 after the Buccaneers were defeated by the Rams\" class=\"wp-image-22519693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/tom-brady-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/tom-brady-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/tom-brady-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Tom Brady walks off the field in January 2022 after the Buccaneers were defeated by the Rams<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brady shares son Benjamin, 12, and daughter Vivian, 9, with wife Gisele B\u00fcndchen, whom he has been married to since 2009. He also has a 14-year-old son Jack with his ex, actress Bridget Moynahan.<\/p>\n<p>When the quarterback did decide to return to the NFL earlier this year, both Moynahan, 51, and B\u00fcndchen, 41, celebrated the move, the latter of which quipped, &#8220;Here we go again!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Brady is now elaborating on his decision to end his retirement in March after a whole 40 days. During a Q&#038;A with Ernie Johnson on Wednesday night as part of &#8220;The Match&#8221; golf event, the 44-year-old quarterback said he &#8220;felt some pressure&#8221; to return with free agency looming, despite announcing in February his decision &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tom-brady-explains-why-he-felt-pressure-to-end-brief-retirement\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tom Brady explains why he felt &#8216;pressure&#8217; to end brief retirement<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[446,307,295,2381,2948],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/newspress-collage-22519444-1654258832189.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1654244528&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}