Brady says he has ‘more to prove’
Tom Brady shed a sliver of light Wednesday on his plans, writing on Instagram that he still has “more to prove” in the “arena.”
Left unsaid was whether Brady, 42, still has anything left to prove with the New England Patriots, the team he has helped lead to six
Super Bowl titles since entering the NFL in 2000. He’s about to become a free agent for the first time in his career, and his asking price for the 2020 season probably will be somewhere between US$ 25 million and $ 35 million, an amount Patriots coach and chief decision- maker Bill Belichick might be loath to pay, considering his longheld aversion to overpaying for players.
Those deficiencies were in full view over the second half of the season, when Brady put up below-average numbers and the defending champion Patriots won only four of their final nine games, capped by a dismal 20-13 loss to the Tennessee Titans in Saturday’s wild-card game.
It was the first time the Brady- Belichick Patriots exited a season without a playoff victory since 2010, and the first time they lost in the first round since a season before that.
“Who knows what the future holds, I’ll leave it at that,” Brady said, adding that it was “pretty unlikely” that he would retire.
Wednesday’s Instagram post began by thanking Patriots fans.
“I have been blessed to find a career I love, teammates who go to battle with me, an organization that believes in me, and fans who have been behind us every step of the way,” Brady wrote.