Tom Brady wasn’t ready to talk about stepping away from football after the Buccaneers lost to the Rams in the NFC Divisional Round on Sunday, but he offered some thoughts about his upcoming retirement decision on his Let’s Go podcast on Monday.
Brady told Jim Gray most of his decision will come down to how his football career affects his family.
“It pains her to see me get hit out there,” Brady said of his wife Gisele Bündchen, as transcribed by the Tampa Bay Times’ Rick Stroud. “And she deserves what she needs from me as a husband and my kids deserve what they need from me as a dad.