{"id":79453,"date":"2020-03-17T08:47:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=79453"},"modified":"2020-03-17T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:53:00","slug":"tom-brady-is-not-coming-back-to-new-england-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/03\/17\/tom-brady-is-not-coming-back-to-new-england-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady Is Not Coming Back to New England Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BradTo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Brady<\/a><\/strong> Era is officially over in New England. According to the quarterback himself, the six-time Super Bowl champion is going to playing somewhere else in 2020. In a tweet labelled &#8220;Forever a Patriot&#8221;, Brady announced that &#8220;his football journey will take place elsewhere&#8221; moving forward.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FOREVER A PATRIOT <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QSBOJBs4uy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/QSBOJBs4uy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Brady (@TomBrady) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomBrady\/status\/1239895289424642050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Tom Brady Is Not Coming Back<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Brady is coming off arguably the worst season of his storied career. Starting in all 16 games, Brady completed 60.8% of his passes for 4,057 yards, 24 touchdowns, and eight interceptions. This was the first season he didn\u2019t earn a Pro Bowl nomination since his injury-shortened 2008 campaign. However, it\u2019s worth noting that Brady also had arguably the worst supporting cast of his career. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/E\/EdelJu00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julian Edelman<\/a><\/strong> played through a vast assortment of injuries, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GordJo02.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Gordon<\/a><\/strong> didn\u2019t pan out, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/2019\/12\/13\/new-england-patriots-rookie-nkeal-harry-spark\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>N\u2019Keal Harry<\/strong><\/a> started the year on injured reserve, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/S\/SanuMo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mohamed Sanu<\/a><\/strong> suffered a serious ankle injury shortly after arriving in New England.<\/p>\n<p>Brady, of course, entered the NFL as a sixth-round pick in the 2000 NFL Draft. After spending his rookie year as a fourth-string quarterback, Brady earned the backup role heading into 2001. Brady earned the starting job after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BledDr00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drew Bledsoe<\/a><\/strong> suffered a lung injury, and he never looked back. Throughout the remainder of the season, Brady completed 63.9% of his passes for 2,843 yards, 18 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions. He saved his best work for the postseason when he led a last-second game-winning drive to take down the St. Louis Rams and the Greatest Show on Turf.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Brady has transformed from surprise sensation into the greatest quarterback in history. Throughout his 20-year career, the quarterback has accumulated 74,571 passing yards, 541 touchdowns, and 179 interceptions while completing 63.8% of his passes. He\u2019s earned three MVPs, three First-Team All-Pro selections, four Super Bowl MVPs, and countless other records.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"nRQyjlksRCZdFt3jEDxO3Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1198903857\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'nRQyjlksRCZdFt3jEDxO3Q',sig:'fHQNqqjbXbPM-LsKor1YYWHqlV8w8HrmCQ1sacIbvWE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1198903857',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six-time Super Bowl champion and 20-year NFL veteran quarterback Tom Brady is officially off the open market after signing his latest contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":79454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[61,38,40,1608,331],"class_list":["post-79453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots","category-nfl-news","tag-football","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-free-agency","tag-tom-brady"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}