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QB Tom Brady, Retired (2 Viewers)

Brady is excellent at involving his other receivers. I don't know if anyone watched the Bucs when they won the thing about 18 months ago...Brady was zipping it to other playmakers besides Evans and Godwin in that game.

I don't feel like Julio has a lot of juice left, his last 2-3 years have been hard to watch. Tight End is who now? Godwin out, who slides into his role?
 
I think Julio is most likely to take the Gronk roll when it comes to the end zone looks. I think he's a very sneaky play this year, even though I agree who showed very little last year...but we are talking a very different QB who's motivation and passion will probably rejuvenate Julio IMO....
 
Ministry of Pain said:
Brady is excellent at involving his other receivers. I don't know if anyone watched the Bucs when they won the thing about 18 months ago...Brady was zipping it to other playmakers besides Evans and Godwin in that game.

I don't feel like Julio has a lot of juice left, his last 2-3 years have been hard to watch. Tight End is who now? Godwin out, who slides into his role?
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TE is some combo of Otton & Rudolph.

It’s interesting how many are pointing to the TB WRs as sub-par, when Brady won a few super bowls with what was considered not a top set of WRs.

This is still a very good offense, IMO.
We’ll see on Sunday night.
 

NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports "Tom Brady is beginning what is expected to be his final season."​

We'll hear hundreds of reports on Brady's future throughout the season, but it does seem likely that this is a farewell tour for the greatest football player to ever take the field. As Rapoport noted, Brady has previously said that his plan was to play until he was 45 years old. Having turned 45 a week before the start of the season, we may be entering the final Week 1 of Brady's career.
SOURCE: Ian Rapoport on Twitter
Sep 11, 2022, 9:32 AM ET
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The Tampa Bay Times' Rick Stroud reports Tom Brady is dealing with a "banged up" ring finger on his right hand.​

Bucs head coach Todd Bowles said Brady is fine and that he made "every throw" during practice this week. Behind a porous, injury-riddled offensive line, Brady has struggled mightily in the season's first two games. He's 26th in completion percentage over expected with a 6.6 yards per attempt (22nd). Fantasy managers in 10-team leagues could do better with a waiver wire quarterback option over Brady in a tough matchup against the Packers. He'll be without Mike Evans (suspension), Chris Godwin (hamstring), and likely Julio Jones (knee).
SOURCE: Rick Stroud on Twitter
Sep 23, 2022, 12:48 PM ET
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Feels very weird to bench him for tannehill and Trubisky in SF but with injuries and the mess in TB, that’s the decision made this week.
Even weirder, my trade when Brady originally retired Of case Keenum and Jacoby biscuit for Brady seems like a bad deal.
 

Tom Brady completed 38-of-51 passes for 367 yards and three touchdowns in Tampa Bay's 41-31, Week 4 loss to Kansas City.​

Brady appeared to hurt his shoulder on a sack in the second quarter and spent some time stretching it out and grimacing on the sideline, but stayed in the whole way as the Bucs tried to climb out of a massive game script deficit. The result was music to fantasy managers' ears: 51 attempts to six rushes. Brady bounced back in a big way with most of his weaponry back on the field. He'll be a fringe QB1 as Tampa tries to handle the Falcons in Week 5.
Oct 2, 2022, 11:39 PM ET
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Tom Brady (shoulder, finger) practiced on Thursday.​

There's little reason to think Brady's at risk of missing Sunday's contest against the Falcons. The veteran quarterback played through this injury last week against the Chiefs and still managed to throw for 367 yards on 51 passes. Unless we hear otherwise, count on Brady being active for Week 5.
Oct 6, 2022, 11:58 AM ET
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Tom Brady (shoulder, finger) has confirmed he will start Sunday's game against the Falcons.​

“Feels great," Brady said Thursday. "Thanks for asking. I’ll be there Sunday.” Brady has a long, long history of playing through injury designations and limited practices. Almost never do his various minor ailments seem to hamper his effectiveness. He's a back-end QB1 for Week 5.
SOURCE: Sara Walsh on Twitter
Oct 6, 2022, 1:50 PM ET
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If Brady's decision to return does lead to the end of his marriage, as it now looks, I'm going to say you can bank on him wanting to return in 2023.

Unlike this off-season he'll be an UFA and no longer the property of Tampa Bay.

Just spitballing here on where he'll want to play and this is more of an off-season topic but still interesting to me:

He very well might just want to remain in Tampa. I'd put them as the favorite because I remain of the opinion he already won the power struggle with Bruce. Add in familiarity, strong roster with offensive talent, weaker NFC and I can't say this for sure but I think the odds of Giselle maintaining a permanent residence on the east coast, probably Miami specifically, would be a big factor in his decision to want to remain fairly close due to his children.

Miami would have to be a very real possibility depending on how Tua plays. But if Tua is merely adequate and Brady wanted to play in Miami would Ross really say no? That would obviously place Brady in the possible city his kids reside with some great offensive weapons. I can't say that Brady would want to return to the ultra competitive AFC or want to be in the same division as NE.

SF is another but I don't know his relationship with Shanahan or how they'd mesh. Specifically Brady is going to want to run his offense but that's Kyle's baby. And while it would return Brady to his hometown area and put him closer to his parents it would potentially take him considerably farther away from his own children. For SF it would mean wasting another year of not developing Lance and I think after next season they have to decide on the 5th year option and would be hard to evaluate him to do that if Brady joined the team. But similar to Miami would they really say no if that's what Brady wanted?

Anyway like I said more of an off-season topic but I don't see any slippage in his play and believe his struggles early this year are a by-product of the injury issues that hit the team. If his main weapons and stay healthy he'll start rolling, in real life and fantasy.
 
menobrown said:
If Brady's decision to return does lead to the end of his marriage, as it now looks, I'm going to say you can bank on him wanting to return in 2023.

Unlike this off-season he'll be an UFA and no longer the property of Tampa Bay.

Just spitballing here on where he'll want to play and this is more of an off-season topic but still interesting to me:

He very well might just want to remain in Tampa. I'd put them as the favorite because I remain of the opinion he already won the power struggle with Bruce. Add in familiarity, strong roster with offensive talent, weaker NFC and I can't say this for sure but I think the odds of Giselle maintaining a permanent residence on the east coast, probably Miami specifically, would be a big factor in his decision to want to remain fairly close due to his children.

Miami would have to be a very real possibility depending on how Tua plays. But if Tua is merely adequate and Brady wanted to play in Miami would Ross really say no? That would obviously place Brady in the possible city his kids reside with some great offensive weapons. I can't say that Brady would want to return to the ultra competitive AFC or want to be in the same division as NE.

SF is another but I don't know his relationship with Shanahan or how they'd mesh. Specifically Brady is going to want to run his offense but that's Kyle's baby. And while it would return Brady to his hometown area and put him closer to his parents it would potentially take him considerably farther away from his own children. For SF it would mean wasting another year of not developing Lance and I think after next season they have to decide on the 5th year option and would be hard to evaluate him to do that if Brady joined the team. But similar to Miami would they really say no if that's what Brady wanted?

Anyway like I said more of an off-season topic but I don't see any slippage in his play and believe his struggles early this year are a by-product of the injury issues that hit the team. If his main weapons and stay healthy he'll start rolling, in real life and fantasy.
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If he wanted a real challenge and the opportunity to go down as an even bigger goat he'd go to Minnesota and win a championship with that cursed franchise. If he did that no one and I mean no one could argue he wasn't the greatest ever.
 

Tom Brady completed 25-of-40 passes for 243 yards and a touchdown in the Steelers' 20-18, Week 6 loss to the Steelers.​


It just was not a good game for Brady against a banged-up defense. Averaging 6.1 yards per attempt, he hooked up with Chris Godwin on just half of his 12 targets and had only two completions longer than 20 yards. That includes zero longer than 30. Brady was caught by FOX's cameras chewing out his offensive line late in the first half. It didn't make a difference after the break. Brady was still seeding some tight-window throws. It did not appear anything was physically wrong. This just isn't a great team right now. We know that could change in a hurry, likely as early as Week 7 vs. the woebegone Panthers.
- NBCSportsEDGE
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massraider said:
Please, Lord, tell me he's done
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I think his marriage falling apart makes it more likely that he comes back next year, but his age is starting to show a little, and he doesn't appear to be all-in this season. He looks like 2019 Brady who knew he was leaving the Patriots.
 

Tom Brady completed 32-of-49 passes for 290 scoreless yards in Tampa Bay's 21-3, Week 7 loss to Carolina.​


Inexplicable. Brady left about 150 yards of dropped or slightly overthrown Mike Evans passes on the field, but Tampa's offense legitimately doesn't seem to trust its offensive line anymore. Brady had an extremely low time to throw and mixed in plenty of screens, and in its biggest moments, Tampa's offense came up flat. They turned it over on downs twice inside the Carolina 30 and added a field-goal attempt down 14-0 in the fourth quarter to avoid a shutout. We'll see how Brady's 45-year-old body responds on Thursday Night against the Ravens, but the trendline has not been promising enough for him to be a must-start QB1.
- NBCSportsEDGE
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Ghost Rider said:
massraider said:
Please, Lord, tell me he's done
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I think his marriage falling apart makes it more likely that he comes back next year, but his age is starting to show a little, and he doesn't appear to be all-in this season. He looks like 2019 Brady who knew he was leaving the Patriots.
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I cannot see him coming back to Tampa next year. Maybe an otherwise strong team which can win now. (Tennessee if not Tannehill, but I’d rather just keep Ryan)
 
Just watched some “highlights” of that game. Had Evans not dropped that 65 yard TD on the 1st drive, we’d be talking much differently about Brady’s performance on Sunday.

I’m expecting a bounce back on TNF against the Ravens at home.
 
Hot Sauce Guy said:
Just watched some “highlights” of that game. Had Evans not dropped that 65 yard TD on the 1st drive, we’d be talking much differently about Brady’s performance on Sunday.

I’m expecting a bounce back on TNF against the Ravens at home.
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HSG-- I said that after the Steelers game too. I started the season drafting Russ as my QB. Traded for Brady after week 4. And now, I sit here 0-7. Lousy QB play being the major (but not only) reason for that. Anyone with a top 3-4 QB will not move them and everyone else is so/so at best. It's a QB league (my league is 6 points passing TDs) and the strategy of waiting on a QB was a loser this season. As for the game against Carolina--I watched virtually every Tampa drive. Yes they dropped a few passes but he did not look sharp either. And if Evans had caught that pass, in my league that simply would have meant 8 more points. Added to the 5 he got me would make 13--a ,ot better than 5 but still hardly anything like last year.
 
Keith1 said:
Hot Sauce Guy said:
Just watched some “highlights” of that game. Had Evans not dropped that 65 yard TD on the 1st drive, we’d be talking much differently about Brady’s performance on Sunday.

I’m expecting a bounce back on TNF against the Ravens at home.
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HSG-- I said that after the Steelers game too. I started the season drafting Russ as my QB. Traded for Brady after week 4. And now, I sit here 0-7. Lousy QB play being the major (but not only) reason for that. Anyone with a top 3-4 QB will not move them and everyone else is so/so at best. It's a QB league (my league is 6 points passing TDs) and the strategy of waiting on a QB was a loser this season. As for the game against Carolina--I watched virtually every Tampa drive. Yes they dropped a few passes but he did not look sharp either. And if Evans had caught that pass, in my league that simply would have meant 8 more points. Added to the 5 he got me would make 13--a ,ot better than 5 but still hardly anything like last year.
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In my league Brady score 21. So that would have put him at 30 (+1 for the 50+ TD bonus)

10 more yards and it’s +2 also for 300+

I am 4-2, about to be 5-2. Started with Russ, and just traded for Brady this week.

I still expect Brady to be better when he has a full compliment of receivers. My team is stacked, so I can afford to wait - I need QB8-12 production weekly from him. I’m optimistic.
 
Team Smokin' said:
Faust said:
DOUBT TOM BRADY AT YOUR OWN PERIL
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Is Brady washed? Like Peyton Manning in his last year in the league.
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Not even close. Brady still has zip on his passes where Peyton was throwing ducks his last season.

Brady had an amazing season in 2021 and people expecting a repeat were overly optimistic. However, I still think he's a top 10 QB the rest of the way. Evans and Godwin are damn good and Otten is way better than Brate as a receiver. If they can get one of Gage or Julio healthy, that will help too.
 

Tom Brady completed 26-of-44 passes for 325 yards and a touchdown in the Bucs' 27-22, Week 8 loss to the Ravens.​

It was another zombie night for the Bucs' offense, with protection breakdowns, pass-catcher miscommunications and penalties killing any shot Tampa had at developing offensive rhythm, and it wasn't much of a shot as it was. Brady did manage to throw his first touchdown in two weeks, though it came in what would qualify as garbage time with the Bucs needing to recover an onside kick to have any chance of making a game of it. Brady did hit Mike Evans for a 51-yard gain that was his longest of the season, but the duo couldn't get on the same page several other times, including in the end zone. Stunningly, Brady now has just nine scores through eight starts. Julio Jones did make a successful return this evening, and has 10 days to rest up for Week 9 against the Rams. We would like to say Brady is finally out of QB1 benefit of the doubt for that one, but the dismal quarterback scene might not allow it.
Oct 27, 2022, 11:37 PM ET
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