Joe Buck And Troy Aikman Reveal What Tom Brady Told Them About His Plans For Next Season

One of the first questions people started to ask as the Buccaneers fell to the Cowboys 31-14 Monday night was, “Is Tom Brady coming back for another season?”

The ageless 45-year-old quarterback has been linked to a handful of teams that are interested in acquiring his services, most notably the Raiders, next year.

And really, who can blame them? Tom Brady, in his 23rd year in the NFL, broke his own record (set last year) for most pass completions in a single season (490) on a record 733 attempts. So he can obviously still sling it.

After Monday night’s game, ESPN announcers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman appeared on SportsCenter and revealed to Scott Van Pelt what Brady told them before the game about his plans for 2023.

“When I talk to people about it, people inside the game believe he’s coming back for another year,” said Joe Buck. “Whether that’s here in Tampa Bay or that’s with some other organization, nobody knows.

“But I will go back to what we said in the game. Unless he’s a great actor, he had a real heart-to-heart conversation with us about this. I think he’s been through a lot off the field and probably more than we give credit for,” Buck continued. “When I talked to these players and people on this coaching staff tonight before the game, they said Brady’s kind of been back to himself over the last three weeks. Which tells me for a while that he was really out of it with everything that was going on with the team and everything that was going on in his life.

“So I believe him, that he doesn’t know if he’s coming back to play and we’ll just all have to find out at the same time together.”

“You don’t play until your 45-years-old unless you just really love the game and he obviously does,” Troy Aikman added. “He’s done it all.

“But tonight, let’s be honest. He looked like a 45-year-old quarterback and I think if he comes back we do know that if was available and teams out there that needed a quarterback, Tom Brady would be at probably the top of the list.

“I mean, he’s well regarded, he can still play at a high level, but he’s got to have those pieces around him. Most of us needed that when we were in our early thirties. So if that’s in Tampa, great.

“But you can’t throw the ball 66 times and expect to do anything. And he’s been doing that for the last couple years. He’s led the league in pass attempts for the last two years at 44- and 45-years-old and that’s uh, whatever the reasons are, that has to change wherever he is.”

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