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But he will get in there player's with a shady past that are in the HOF

 

Five years and another Steeler in the HOF

 

Joe Burrow: These big games are the reason I play football



Since quarterback Joe Burrow burst onto the national stage as LSU’s quarterback in 2019, he’s played some of his best games in the biggest contests.

That’s been the case in Burrow’s second season as a pro. When the Bengals needed a victory over the Chiefs in Week 17 to clinch the AFC North, Burrow threw for 446 yards and four touchdowns in the 34-31 victory. The week before he threw for 525 yards and four TDs against Baltimore to set up the clinching scenario.


In two postseason games, he’s completed 73 percent of his passes for 592 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. He’s averaging 8.3 yards per attempt and 11.4 yards per completion.

Burrow will need another strong performance to defeat the Chiefs on the road this week. But the quarterback’s attitude toward big games has him primed for a strong performance.

“These are the reason that I play football,” Burrow said Friday, via Paul Dehner Jr. of TheAthletic.com. “I play to get to these moments and to make plays and take advantage of my opportunities. I work really hard for these moments. If I worked really hard and never got to the position I am in now, playing in the AFC Championship game [with a] chance to go to the Super Bowl, I think that would be tough for me to mentally work as hard as I do each week in the offseason to come in and go .500 every year and be a fringe playoff team. I work so hard so I get to these moments and play well.”

With Burrow in place, it doesn’t look like Cincinnati is going to be a middling, .500 team anytime soon.

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These big games are the reason I watch football.

 

Looks like the dark day's in Cincinnati are in the past

 

Mike Brown will screw it up somehow.

I do like Burrow TBH. He got sacked 9 time vs the Titans and still got it done. Plus, he gave credit to his team.

 

Report: Tom Brady retirement announcement likely coming soon



Logic and common sense point to Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady retiring. A new report indicates that the logical, commonsensical decision will be announced soon.

Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports, citing “several sources who are within Brady’s inner circle,” explains that these sources anticipate Brady “most likely will reveal his future plans in the coming days.”


As one unnamed source explained it to La Canfora, Brady wants to give the Buccaneers a full opportunity to make post-Brady plans. Brady also doesn’t want to upstage the playoffs, as the Super Bowl teams prepare to become locked in.

La Canfora writes that there is “growing anticipation” that the official announcement is coming this week.

The possibility of a sudden Brady retirement sprang up out of nowhere in the days preceding the playoff loss to the Rams. But few seemed stunned by Brady’s abrupt reversal; he’d said on multiple occasions that he’ll play through the 2022 season and then decide whether to stick around for a year or two after that.

Just before the 2021 season began, Brady said, “Hopefully, I’ll be here a long time. For many years.”

Retirement makes sense given that Brady recently confirmed longstanding beliefs that he doesn’t want a farewell tour. If he plays in 2022, he’d get one — whether he likes it or not. Indeed, it now seems that years of saying that he’ll play through the age of 45 were aimed at least in part at preventing a farewell tour from ever happening, with Brady knowing his last season would come before 2022.

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I'll believe it when i see it.

 

So, just to be clear, Brady wants to go out without fanfare, so he leaks the leadup to a retirement announcement. He doesn't want to upstage football going on in the next two weeks, so he's planning to announce it... within the next two weeks.

Fuck, football is going to be SO much better without the unrepentant narcissists that are Brady and Rodgers. Soon both will be gone. Not soon enough, but still. Phew!

 

Never EVER!!!!! did that cross my mind a real good question

 

Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady‘s long and impressive playing career has come to an end.

ESPN reports that Brady is retiring from the NFL after 22 years. The word comes shortly after a report from CBS Sports that Brady would likely be making an announcement about his plans for the future soon.

Brady said many times this season that he planned to play at least one more year in the NFL, but speculation that he’d hang up the cleats picked up steam before last Sunday’s divisional round loss to the Rams. In a recent interview, Brady said he had no interest in a farewell tour and that pointed to a retirement announcement because a return for another season would have wound up being exactly that.

Brady wasn’t able to add an eighth Super Bowl title this year, but he went out at the top of his game. Brady set a career high with 5,316 passing yards and led the league with 43 touchdown passes while helping the Bucs to a division title. The three-time NFL MVP is the NFL’s all-time leader in completions, passing yards, and passing touchdowns and he’s won five Super Bowl MVPs to go with every postseason record a quarterback could hope to achieve.

Brady will add a Hall of Fame jacket and many other accolades to that long list of accomplishments as he’s set the standard for all quarterbacks who will follow in his footsteps.

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Somebody needs a QB.

 

If all it took for Tom to quit was Ben to go first I wish Ben had retired 10 years ago lol (Yes I am aware Ben had nothing to do with it).

 

The NFC South has just become a crapshoot.

 

Tampa will grab a qb and do just fine. While everyone falls down at the feet of brady dont forget Winston put up 5000 yards and 30 tds for them.

However looking at their free agents they may have a lot of work to do Godwin, Gronk, Fornette, Jones jr, Howard, and Bernard on the offensive side. No wonders he jumped out all his toys might be gone.

 

and… lost… he never made a Super Bowl

 

Undoubtedly that will be on the minds of all Bucs fans someday when debating which was the better QB for the franchise.

 

And threw like 7000 interceptions.

Yes, let’s compare him to Brady. Because that makes sense.

 

Bwhahahahaha you guys and your reading into shit that isnt actually said kills really im tearing up right now laughing so hard.

 

I'm sure that's it. Had to get out like a little punk..

 

ESPN stands by its Tom Brady reporting



Saturday unexpectedly became a weird one for the NFL. Attaching two names to the claim, ESPN reported that Tom Brady will retire. Brady responded by telling the Buccaneers that he has yet to make a decision. HIs father separately said Brady won’t be retiring at all.

ESPN has subsequently said it stands by its reporting.


It’s not a surprise. Beyond the fact that ESPN can’t do an about-face on something this significant, it’s highly unlikely that the reporting is incorrect. One of the reporters credited with the story, Adam Schefter, has a documented relationship with Don Yee. The other reporter, Jeff Darlington, clearly has a pipeline to someone in Brady’s inner circle, if not Brady himself.

Brady, as Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports noted when lighting the fuse on Friday, doesn’t want to upstage the playoffs. Thus, Brady had to tap the brakes, even if that’s where the car is still heading.

Brady undoubtedly wanted to retire on his own terms and at the time of his choosing. Someone (or more than one someones) blabbed prematurely — unless, of course, Brady wanted it to happen this way, in order to conjure a multi-day mystery before he performs a big reveal on social media or wherever.

Once again, Brady has said doesn’t want a farewell tour. At this point, there’s no way he could play in 2022 without it being widely regarded as Tommy’s Last Ride. Thus, it’s fair to assume that it’s over, even though playing for one more year to spite ESPN would be the ultimate boss move for Brady.

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