As long as he sees another record to break (oldest quarterback in NFL history), he's likely to try and break it before he retires, based on the way he does things. This talk of retirement and changing of the guard by vicious
people is just talk, since some
people have already tried to talk Cam Newton into retiring (trying to convince him that he's already over the hill) and he's over a decade younger than
Tom Brady, just now reaching the average age of an NFL quarterback. Tom
Brady is not everybody's favorite quarterback, but he hasn't changed, he still plays like he's in his 20's. Besides a change of guard some
people seem to want to see badly, there's nothing keeping Tom
Brady or any other quarterback from playing as long as he wants to until he is ready to move on to the next chapter of his life on his own terms, not if it is what they truly love to do. You don't let people talk you out of doing something you love, that doesn't do anybody around you any good, it doesn't make anybody stronger.
Not everybody is going to like or agree with everything about the
legacy of Tom
Brady, but even the
people that want a new guard rushed in, if they are being honest with themselves, are curious about how far the wheels can go before they fall off, and they know deep down that they aren't falling off yet, they're not done yet. They might even have a long way to go still, a lot of mileage to
add. Tom
Brady nearly pulled off another Super Bowl LI yesterday, it just went the other way this time on being decided by a field goal. The guy wasn't in his 40's for Super Bowl LI, and yet nothing about his playing has changed since then, he's still the same person, and there's not going to be a point where playing against his team is going to be an easy task.