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- NFL fans will speculate until the end of time while Tom Brady retired from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after one of the best seasons of his career
- Brady has been public about his reasons for retirement but there are also rumors floating that a rift between Tom and Buccanners HC Bruce Arians contributed to the retirement
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Tom Brady has officially been retired from the NFL for several weeks now. He retired after breaking pretty much every NFL record in existence for quarterbacks and he capped off his career with 5,316 passing yards and 43 passing touchdowns in his final season.
The retirement seemed abrupt to some who expected Brady to run it back for one more season. Others saw the writing on the wall. Some folks were able to accept Tom Brady’s given reasons for retirement and the fact that he was already the oldest QB in NFL history, others are still looking for conspiracy theories.
Former New England Patriots Guard and current Fox Sports Radio host Rich Ohrnberger says there was more to Brady’s retirement than age. He just shared some potentially bombshell details about an alleged beef between Tom Brady and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians. There were rumors that Arians and Brady had fallen out but these details are pretty specific.
Rich Ohrnberger Reveals Details About Alleged Beef Between Tom Brady And Bruce Arians
Heard some interesting things recently… The Tom Brady & Bruce Arians honeymoon was over in Tampa. The retirement announcement wasn't because of the trouble seeing eye to eye on the offensive game planning, but the relationship was souring.
— Rich Ohrnberger (@ohrnberger) February 18, 2022
Apparently, while Arians was rehabbing the achilles in the early mornings, offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich and Brady would work on the week's game plan. Arians would later come in and take the red pen to work they'd done. The QB and OC felt undermined, there was tension.
— Rich Ohrnberger (@ohrnberger) February 18, 2022
If those tweets from Ohrnberger aren’t loading because you’re behind a work filter that blocks Twitter, here’s what they say:
Heard some interesting things recently… The Tom Brady & Bruce Arians honeymoon was over in Tampa. The retirement announcement wasn’t because of the trouble seeing eye to eye on the offensive game planning, but the relationship was souring.
Apparently, while Arians was rehabbing the achilles in the early mornings, offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich and Brady would work on the week’s game plan. Arians would later come in and take the red pen to work they’d done. The QB and OC felt undermined, there was tension.
The best rumors are the most believable ones. For me, it’s so easy to believe that Tom Brady and Byron Leftwich would be incensed by someone walking in and changing all of their hard work after a hard practice but it doesn’t add up.
Tom Brady had one of the best seasons of his career. He threw for 5,316 yards which was the most he’d ever thrown in a single season. His 43 touchdowns last season were the 2nd most of any season in his career. And his 485 completions was the most of his career and 83 more than his second-best season. To think that Tom Brady would’ve been angry about someone altering his game plan to somehow make him better and lead him into one of the best seasons of his career seems pretty wild.
Brady Fans React To Arians Beef Allegations
i don't buy that at all
— KS (@Shamrock2232) February 18, 2022
I 100% buy this
— Corey Killington (@CoreyKillington) February 18, 2022
A lot of good coaches haven’t won a SB / didn’t win without a stud QB. A 40+ year old HOF QB is likely very set in his ways. No shock he might not see eye to eye with a new HC.
— Christopher Mills (@cjmills82) February 18, 2022
Brady is at that phase in life where having a boss just doesn't work.
— Señor Snappy ⚡️⚓️⚡️ (@chargrrs) February 18, 2022
Yuuuuuuup:
I think Patriots ppl been trying to speak this into existence for awhile now lol. Meanwhile the offense was top of the NFL in every category that matters and Brady had one of his best seasons ever. All despite injuries. What a mess
— Jon Ledyard (@LedyardNFLDraft) February 18, 2022
Tom Brady is coachable…
Nobody in the history of the NFL has ever suggested that Tom Brady isn’t coachable. Unless there’s something particularly odd about the coaching style of Bruce Arians, which may or may not be true, it’s wild to think that Tom just suddenly became unable to take feedback.
“Head Coach does his job” would be the appropriate headline.
— Tim Spencer (@BumpnRun30) February 18, 2022
Now picture this: the year is 2042 and people are STILL discussing why Tom Brady retired. The football world simply cannot accept that the greatest NFL player in history retired after one of the greatest seasons of his career. Even in the future, nobody can accept that TB12 retired because it was time and he wasn’t able to devote himself 100% anymore to the commitment required to compete at the standard of excellence he holds himself to.
We’ll be talking about this forever.