Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome into Tom Curran's Patriots Talk podcast. We're going to be

joined by Phil Perry and Matt Castle today. And obviously, plans have been altered by the

official, official retirement of Tom Brady. Shed a tear, New England, shed a tear,

everybody who had the opportunity to cover the guy, but also do so with a smile.

Because you're privileged to watch the greatest performer in team sports history.

Yeah, that's what he was.

I mean, you can have Michael Jordan.

You can lift one team, 12 guys, five guys on the court at the same time.

But to be able to lift the team of 53, 22 guys on the field to inject that

player into a system and see the improvement made down in Tampa Bay, well, that's only

the bookend on an incredible Patriots career. So we're going to talk with Castle and Phil Perry

about everything related to Brady.

Why now?

What do you think the main cause was?

And how come Patriots fans didn't get any love? And there ain't nothing you can do a fine. As advertised, the big guns are in here now.

Matt, we haven't gotten your perspective on Brady's retirement, even though we did start

early over the weekend.

Yes. Why is he stepping away?

He still got the goods. He's still got the goods. You know, as a fan, you don't want to ever see

walk away, especially when he led the league in passing this year and touchdowns. Ultimately,

though, we knew it was going to come to an end at some point, and it's probably something to do

with family and being there and being

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