With you and Belichick to me it's gotta
be somewhat annoying when there's always
this question, Tom Brady,
greatest of all time,
but if he didn't have
Belichick he wouldn't have
achieved because Belichick is
the brains there. In your legacy,
does, does that go through your head?
I think it's a pretty shitty argument
actually that people would say that
because, again, I can't do
his job and he can't do mine.
So the fact that you could say,
would I be successful without him,
the same level of success, I
don't believe I would have been.
But Tom,
isn't there some resentment on your part
that he didn't make you a Patriot for
life?
No,
because this is a part for me in my life
to experience something very different
and there's ways for me to grow and evolve
in a different way that I haven't had
the opportunity to do that aren't right
or wrong. That's just right for me.
I look at it this way,
why not stop right now and
just say, that's my legacy.
What is this decision all about?
I never cared about legacy.
It's because it was just time.
I don't know what to say
other than that. Like I,
I accomplished everything I could
in two decades with an incredible
organization,
incredible group of people and that will
never change and no one can ever take
that away from me.
No one can ever take those experiences
or Super Bowl championships away from us.
There were rumors two years ago that
Belichick was thinking about bringing in a
new QB. You know? Did that
influence your decision though?
When you heard that rumor, did
you say, you know, fuck this guy,
I am giving my life to this team.
So many wrong assumptions were made about
our relationship or about how he felt
about me. I know genuinely
how he feels about,
and I got into unchartered
territory where I was old.
I was an older athlete and he
started to plan for the future,
which is what his responsibility is.
And I don't fault him for that. I mean,
that's what he should be doing. That's
what every coach should be doing.
Not that I would ever coach, but you know,
if I'm ever in a position of
authority, I would understand that too.
