Tom Brady officially said goodbye to the NFL earlier this month following a trying 2022 season both on and off the field. And, according to Bruce Arians, the legendary quarterback appeared to be having a hard time navigating those challenges throughout his final campaign.
The former Buccaneers coach and current team consultant offered a blunt of assessment of Brady’s swan song during a Thursday appearance on The Rich Eisen Show. Arians—Tampa Bay’s coach from 2019 through Brady’s first season in ’20—claimed fans didn’t see the “real” version of the veteran QB due to the 45-year-old dealing with several personal issues, which notably included a divorce from wife Gisele Bündchen after 13 years.
“Tom wasn’t himself, you know, with all the things that were going on,” Arians told Eisen, via Masslive.com. “And I got to give him all the credit in the world for battling through what he went through last year for his teammates. I think the world of him but it wasn’t the real Tom Brady out there.”
