Can Tom Brady still play NFL QB at age 50? ‘Yes,’ he says

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Tom Brady, nonetheless enjoying quarterback within the NFL at age 50?

Hey, perhaps.

For the second time this 12 months the enduring sports activities superstar stated he may play previous age 45. However 5 years previous? Wow.

A seven-time Tremendous Bowl winner, Brady turns 45 subsequent Aug. 3 and is below contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by way of the 2022 season.

However might he actually nonetheless play the game’s most tough place at age 50? That means for six extra seasons?

Six?!

“I believe I can. It’s a sure,” Brady advised teammate and long-time pal Rob Gronkowski, in a video posted Thursday on the Buccaneers’ web site.

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“I don’t discover it so tough (at age 44). And plus, Florida is sorta a retire-y state, so I really feel like I can play after which simply glide into retirement.”

That reply expands on what Brady hinted at in February, within the week main as much as the Bucs’ blowout defeat of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs in Tremendous Bowl LV. For years Brady had stated his profession end-wall could be age 45. However requested that week if he’d rethink, he answered:

“Yeah, positively … you by no means know form of when that second (to retire) is, simply because it’s a contact sport. A whole lot of coaching goes into it. And it must be a 100% dedication from myself to maintain doing it.

“I’ve been very lucky over time. (I) work actually exhausting at ensuring, bodily, I can nonetheless carry out at my finest. Over the course of the 12 months, you cope with varied bumps and bruises and totally different accidents and so forth.”

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Brady stated in February that after age 45 it’s “simply going to be” about whether or not he’s keen to proceed “to make that dedication to creating it a part of my year-round course of.”

However in June, Brady provided a a lot less-optimistic take.

“Fifty? That’s a very long time. Even for me, that’s a very long time,” Brady stated.

He and his superstar spouse, former supermodel Gisele Bundchen, are mother and father to a son, Benjamin, born in 2009 and a daughter, Vivian, born in 2012. Brady has a son (Jack, born in 2007) from his earlier relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan, whom he sees regularly.

Brady began the brand new NFL season like gangbusters final Thursday night time, throwing for 379 and 4 touchdowns in a defeat of the Dallas Cowboys.

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