So Tom Brady backed off.
I was waiting for him to change his mind, but... No miracles.
(Or is there still?) I don't know...... ）
He and Big Ben retired in the same year, and to me, it's a bit like Jordan and the glider retired the same year.
I still remember Big Ben's first Super Bowl, Pittsburgh over Seattle, good multimedia said that Big Ben, like Brady, began to take the Super Bowl.
At that time, Brady's talent had not yet been widely recognized; everyone just admitted that he could win, and he was a lucky man.
At that time, the big Manning vs Brady comparison was also popular. Arguments on both sides:
Manning has talent (and stats) and Brady has champions.
I've always felt that Brady's worst pity was in 2008.
That year he took the MVP, a record 50 pass touchdowns. Everyone said that the two prodigal sons of Minnesota in Boston that year were going to win the championship: one was the KG of the Celtics, and the other was Randy Moss of the new Britain.
If you win the Super Bowl, it will be the best season in history to win the all-inclusive data record championship.
As a result, the winning streak ended in the end, and he was beaten back by Manning Jr.
For me, that year was a bit like Milan being turned over by A Coruña in 2004 and Istanbul in 2005.
and Spurs vs Dallas in 2006.
For a long time after that, Xinying did not come out, and little Manning was a big nightmare.
By 2015, New England won the Super Bowl every ten years. Combined with the previous year's Spurs incident seven years apart to win the championship. Duncan was 38 when he won his fifth title and Brady was 37 when he won his fourth title.
"It turns out that you can still win the championship, it's good!"
I remember Lokat dropping the ball when he almost landed on touchdown and killed the Patriots. Butler stopped him.
Brady roared in anger.
Ten years of accumulation, one day out.
I remember listening to the media say "fourteen years, the fourth Super Bowl" before boss Robert Kraft took over the Super Bowl that day. Then he said:
"All New England fans, wherever you are... It's the fourth in fourteen years, and the first in ten years... Our first Super Bowl was so special that I always thought that there was no one more special... But this, really special. Every New England fan understands. ”
What I didn't expect at the time was that he could take three more and make up seven in one go.
For the big reversal in Atlanta, I still remember, around the New Year, I watched it for a while and didn't look at it, think about watching it... Everyone else was eating hot pot, and I was watching and winning.
The most legendary reversal in history.
The following year against Philadelphia, lost.
Brady wasn't killed even once, and Brady was secured by the quarterback's net — and in the end, the ball was dropped.
There was only one mistake in the whole game, which buried the game.
That's about it.
"The big reversal used up all the luck, and it is estimated that it will stop at five in the future."
Then against the Rams, the defensive group and the kicking group, the sixth one was fought.
Then to Tampa Bay, the seventh. The offensive line determines the Super Bowl.
The protective net can't protect the quarterback, as strong as Mahomes can't send a touchdown; to protect the quarterback, Brady commanded, and there were 3 touchdowns at half-time. Maho didn't take the torch at that point.
And, Gron and Brady, the first all-time combination perfect?
The four behind him, to me, were overjoyed.
Maybe it's because the decade from 2005 to 2015 is too long. It may also be that little Manning was bullied out of the psychological shadow in the middle...
I watched Brady's media reputation, from "the inspirational story of 199 people", "the quarterback who can win but the data is not gorgeous", "and Manning are not as talented as well", "the peak of the historical season is failing", "getting older and stronger", "GOAT", step by step.
Such a long and prosperous period, ups and downs, successes and failures, there are great reversals, there are ten years of empty windows and four years of three crowns. It's hard to put into words.
If you have to sum up anything, it is nothing more than the simplest truth.
Embiid loved to say trust the process and believed in the process.
Tom Brady's all-encompassing career, in the end, is nothing more than this sentence: believe in the process.
In 2014, when asked about his comparison with Manning, Brady said something like, "He has two more years to play, and I have seven or eight years left."
He was 37 years old and had three Super Bowls.
Since then, four more Super Bowls.
From legendary quarterback, promoted to GOAT.
199 draft entrants.
Winning consecutive titles when he entered the industry, Big Manning supporters thought Brady was lucky.
But when he finished his seventh Super Bowl last year, he surpassed the total Number of Super Bowls for any team in NFL history (6 for both New England and Pittsburgh).
The Super Bowl total number of pass touchdowns, more than any team in NFL history has ever had a Super Bowl total number of pass touchdowns.
When similar numbers accumulate to a certain extent, they cannot be explained by luck.
I watched him play, and I didn't know how many times I had doubted that "this is it, I am afraid that it will not be good in the future", he himself as a party, the mood he has experienced, I can hardly imagine.
But he finally got to this point.
Trust the process.