Tom Brady #12 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers speaks to the media after losing to the Dallas Cowboys 31-14 in the NFC Wild Card playoff game at Raymond James Stadium on Januin Tampa, Florida. Imagine deciding to come out of retirement to play for Todd Bowles. Not to go all gossip-column on you, but there was a divorce from his famous wife - who presumably was not thrilled to discover that her 45-year-old husband still didn’t want to spend more time at home than was absolutely necessary - and rumoured dalliances with other NFL teams before Brady agreed to come back to the Bucs once former coach Bruce Arians had been punted upstairs. I imagine there’s been some great dart throwing at that age.) What was possibly left to prove? He had been better, in the particularly brutal sport of football, than any athlete in any sport had been in their early 40s. He owned all the records, had proven that he could win without Bill Belichick - if that was even part of his motivation - and had piled up so many wins, especially in the playoffs, that they read like statistical anomalies. He had won a Super Bowl in his first year in Tampa, came back to defend the title, but lost a tough game to the eventual champion Los Angeles Rams. His retirement after last season made perfect sense. It has been a tremendously weird 12 months for the most accomplished NFL quarterback of all time. And it was hard not to think: Brady came back for this?
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