Just when everybody in the NFL world thought they were going to have a relaxing Saturday in the lead-up to the Conference Championship games, there was the report from ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Jeff Darlington that Tom Brady had decided to retire after 22 seasons.
The report, claiming that sources close to Brady had spilled the beans, was immediately and forcefully refuted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Brady’s agent Don Yee, and even Brady’s father, Tom Brady Sr.
That doesn’t mean that Schefter and Darlington were wrong, per se — just that they may have gotten ahead of themselves with the news.
