On Tuesday, we weren’t able to piece together Tom Brady’s exit from New England into the tidy melodrama we’d envisioned. The quarterback, who spent the better part of two seasons laying the tracks of his exit through planned passive-aggressive commentary or not-so-secret real estate dealings, opted to take the high road in his first public comments since leaving the Patriots (if you could call it that; perhaps he’s just saving the juicy stuff for the next Tom vs. Time documentary project).
In a conference call with reporters introducing him as the next quarterback of the Buccaneers, Brady talked about the uncertainty of an offseason that may get swallowed up by the COVID-19 pandemic.