Reports of Tom Brady’s retirement unsurprisingly set off an avalanche of reaction from across the sports media world on Saturday, eventually giving way to some contradictory reports that the seven-time Super Bowl champion had not yet made up his mind about his future. It was all fairly confusing. But thankfully for us, an NFL insider weighed in to offer some insight: former Patriots quarterback and Brady teammate Matt Cassel.
Cassel, who last appeared in an NFL game in 2018 and was Brady’s teammate in New England from 2005 to ’08, revealed on Saturday that he had reached out to the 44-year-old to get a straight answer about what could come next.