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Tom vs. Team: Why Brady is Moving On

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Tom Brady's early morning announcement that he's leaving New England echoed around the league all day Tuesday. But his breakup with the Patriots was a long time coming and when you look closely, the signs were there. ESPN Senior Writer Seth Wickersham shares the winding, tension-laden tale of Brady's departure, and sizes up what's next for Bill Belichick and the Patriots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Greenie, it is now official.

0:02.7

Tom Brady will be leaving the New England Patriots.

0:09.1

The most accomplished quarterback in the NFL and the greatest coach finally broke up.

0:16.2

Today, with Tom Brady headed to the Bucks, the inside story of why he finally decided to move on

0:23.2

from Bill Belichick and the Patriots,

0:25.4

from a reporter who has been documenting

0:27.8

the coming split for years.

0:31.4

I'm Minakheims.

0:32.8

It's Wednesday, March 18th.

0:35.4

This is ESPN Daily, presented by ADT.

0:48.1

Hi, Seth.

0:49.4

Hey, how's it going?

0:51.0

Seth Wickersham is a senior writer for ESPN.

0:53.7

Well, amidst everything happening in the world right now,

0:58.6

Tom Brady single-handedly wrestle control of the new cycle. And in the process, basically gave us in

1:04.9

sports media a miniature stimulus package by announcing that he's leaving the New England Patriots.

1:10.5

Seth, you have covered Brady

1:11.9

forever. You've been to his house. You've covered this team for a while. What was your initial

1:17.1

reaction to today's news? I think it's been in the works for a long time. I think it's been in the

1:22.5

work since training camp. And I think that people just didn't want to believe it. New England fans didn't want to

1:29.9

believe it. Some media members didn't want to believe it. Even people close to Tom Brady didn't

1:34.2

want to believe it. Even the people who did believe it in some ways didn't want to believe it.

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