The biggest revelation in Tom Brady’s wide-ranging interview with Howard Stern on Wednesday was something we might have suspected but didn’t know for sure: he went into his 2019 season with the New England Patriots thinking he was probably playing his final year for the franchise he called home for two decades.
That’s right from the horse’s mouth in terms of how he felt. But if you needed further proof that he was probably ready to move on cam in an anecdote from Sunday Night Football play-by-play man Al Michaels, who told Mike Tirico that Brady had said last year before the Pats lost to the Baltimore Ravens that he was “the most unhappy 8-0 quarterback in football.”
What was he tired at, exactly? That’s a bit of a mystery. But we now know it was on his mind that the end of his tenure with the Patriots was probably near.
