NFL 2022 - Off-Season Player News and Updates

[Exe Gesis]

The way Brady was hugging everyone post-game, extended talking with everyone....suggests maybe Brady is retiring.

No matter which team you follow, that'll still be sad. He's been front and center of the NFL for 20 years, a focal point of both love and hate, and his particular desire to win like no other. Showing that it CAN be done to win handfuls of rings. Sad to see him go. Huge void in the NFL when he goes.

 

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[A11dAtP0w3R]

No way he retires without the fan fare and tributes, thats not him. Id be stunned.

 

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[J Shuttlesworth]

Nothing that occured this season would lead me to believe that he would not play on nor that he needs to give it up.

 

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Rob Gronkowski said he would consider returning to the Bucs in 2022 if Tom Brady retires.​

"I'll never throw anything off the board," Gronkowski said Monday, a day after Tampa's wrenching Divisional Round loss to the Rams. Gronkowski, who has said he would never play with a quarterback besides Brady, is signed through the 2025 season, and will be a $5 million cap hit in 2022. Gronk's fantasy appeal would wane next year if he continues with Tampa without the Gronk soothsayer Brady. There's also a matter of age: Gronkowski will be 33 in May.

SOURCE: Greg Auman on Twitter
Jan 24, 2022, 11:38 AM ET

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Times are tough if youre a Baker truther

 

[Brasher]

Times are tough if youre a Baker truther

Jimmy is the one person who can rock brown and orange and make it look sweet.

 

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Browns QB Baker Mayfield should stick to new social media strategy, leave 'Baker bros' to worry about drama

Baker Mayfield's Twitter experience with Dustin Fox leads the Browns QB to a logical conclusion: Shutting down social media would be a good idea.

www.beaconjournal.com

 

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Tom Brady: “There’s no rush to make a decision”​

Posted by Mike Florio on January 24, 2022, 7:32 PM EST

After Sunday’s loss to the Rams, Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady said he’s take some time to make a decision about playing next season — even though he previously had said on numerous occasions that he planned to play in 2022. In his latest episode of Let’s Go, Brady did nothing to dispel the possibility that he’ll be gone.

“I think the point is there’s no really rush for me to figure out what’s next,” Brady said. “You know, I’ll know when I know. It’s a day after the season. So I think for all of us, you know, we can all decompress a bit. It’s been six straight months of football, every day consumed by day in and day out football. And I think now it’s just some time to spend some time with my family and spend some time with my kids.”
For five years, Brady’s wife, Gisele Bundchen, has tried to get him to retire.

“My wife is my biggest supporter,” Brady said. “It pains her to see me get hit out there. And she deserves what she needs from me as a husband and my kids deserve what they need from me as a dad. And I’m gonna spend some time with them and give them what they need, ‘cause they’ve really been giving me what I need the last six months to do what I love to do. I said this a few years ago, it’s what relationships are all about. It’s not always what I want. It’s what we want as a family. And I’m gonna spend a lot of time with them and figure out in the future what’s next.”

Brady doesn’t feel the need to have a final-year farewell tour. For years, we’ve heard that he definitely doesn’t want an all-about-Tommy final season in football.

“I think that would be distracting for me,” Brady said. “I’m really an ultimate, my enjoyment comes from not a recognition of kind of what I’ve accomplished as a player in the league. My enjoyment comes from the competition. Moreso than anything, even yesterday, I was thinking about competing. I was thinking about, this whole year, about competing. I wasn’t thinking about anything other than that. So when the time comes to think about post career and second career I’ll think about those things. It’s just when you’re 44, I guess you get asked about that a lot. And a lot of people thought I was done playing football in 2015. A lot of people in 2016 said, ‘You’re done.’ A lot of people in 2018, and when I left the Patriots, they said, ‘You’re done.’”

So could he actually walk away after the way the 2021 season ended? Would he be satisfied with that?

“I would say I’m proud and satisfied of everything we accomplished this year,” Brady said. “So I know when I give it my all, that’s something to be proud of. And I’ve literally given everything I had this year, last year, the year before that, the year before that. Like, I don’t leave anything half-ass, you know? I think I leave it with everything that I have. My physical being, I work really hard on that. I feel like I give everything I can to my teammates. Although, you know, it is divided attention as you get older, ‘cause there’s different priorities and responsibilities in life. And, you know, I have things happening outside of football that require some time and energy. Not a ton but, you know, the kids require time and energy and that’s enjoyable for me, too. So again, it’s a, you know, I’ll know when the time is right and there’s no rush to make a decision. So, you know, we’ll just see.”

Indeed we will. And it’s possible we have seen the last of Brady, with the Bucs or with anyone.

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Hes not retiring, stop giving him attention over something that isn't happening

 

[Exe Gesis]

Hes not retiring, stop giving him attention over something that isn't happening

He deserves the attention, no matter if one hates him, hes a titan of the NFL, an all-time great, and it will be sad to see him go if he goes.

 

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He deserves the attention, no matter if one hates him, hes a titan of the NFL, an all-time great, and it will be sad to see him go if he goes.

Yes but its not happening, Rodgers a better chance of retiring than Brady imo

 

[Brasher]

He might deserve the attention but there are 250 footballers out there striving for what he has turned into a personal entitlement.

Can he stay quiet about it for the next 3 weeks?

 

[J Shuttlesworth]

Ready to take your turn on the AB ride drd23 ?

 

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[drd23]

Yeah, its not happening. If there was ever a time it was going to happen, it would have been before he signed with the Bucs in 2020 when the Ravens WRs were hot garbage

 

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Packers QB Aaron Rodgers said he expects to make a decision on his future "well before" free agency.​

“To stretch it out past free agency would be disrespectful to the organization," Rodgers continued, "and that 100% will not happen.” He pointed to the organization's window for franchise-tagging Davante Adams in February as his own personal timeline. Although the soon-to-be back-to-back MVP had arguably mended fences with the team's front office last offseason, its payroll being -$38.4 million in the hole may force a change in direction. It's hard to imagine Adams, 28, returning to a Rodgers-less Packers team or vice versa.

SOURCE: Ryan Wood on Twitter
Jan 25, 2022, 3:17 PM ET