The N.F.L.’s greatest quarterback seemed ageless right up until his first retirement. Then he came back. And now he is retiring again, presumably for good.
When Tom Brady retired, for the second time, on Wednesday morning, he kept things simple. There were no leaks to Adam Schefter about a possible announcement. There was no carefully crafted letter to fans.
Along the way, he also threw two touchdown passes in three minutes to beat the New Orleans Saints, 17–16, in a Monday Night Football game in early December, thus leading the Bucs in one of the most improbable fourth-quarter comebacks in N.F.L. history. He threw for four thousand six hundred and ninety-four yards, the third most of any quarterback in the league.
In the last football game that he played, a 31–14 loss to the Dallas Cowboys, he threw for three hundred and fifty-one yards—on an unfathomable sixty-six attempts. He also threw an interception on the Cowboys’ five-yard line in the second quarter—an odd, wobbly little lob to a defender in the back of the end zone. The Bucs were down 24–0 at the half. On the other side of the ball, the Cowboys’ quarterback, Dak Prescott, completed twenty-five of thirty-three passes.
Prescott is, and has been, part of a new wave of quarterbacks who are redefining how the game is played, after Brady defined it for two decades. That is the way that sports work, or should. The two quarterbacks who will face each other in the Super Bowl, and Jalen Hurts, are not made in Brady’s image. The game evolves. It grows up. There is no shame in getting older. ♦
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