Tom Brady has

Truly grateful on this day. Thank you 🙏🏻❤️ pic.twitter.com/j2s2sezvSS

— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) February 1, 2023?s=20&t=VyomDmGaU2SrZPkZEE3kzw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officially retired from football nearly a year after calling it a career the first time. Scott Zolak was out on Wednesday, but did call in to pay homage to the greatest quarterback of all time.

 

• Zo reacts to the retirement of Tom Brady

  “I’m kind of shocked by the way it ended for him that, ‘okay, that’s it, that’s enough for me.'”

  “It’s sad, because he’s not going to be in the game. I hate when we when the great ones leave. I didn’t like it when Manning left. I didn’t like it when Ben Roethlisberger left. This guy’s different. He’s he’s the greatest of all time. The success he had after the age of 40 is what’s most amazing to me, because that’s that’s when the body breaks down. You start breaking it down around 36, 37 and you don’t take care of yourself. Injuries add up and it’s harder to come back from injury. It’s harder to throw the ball. You know, the older you get, you don’t have the same velocity, same speed. But man, his numbers post-40, it’s unreal.”

• Zo on the decision to let Brady leave New England

  

  Tom Brady comes off the field and waves to fans after the Buccaneers’ 19-17 win over the Patriots on Sunday night.
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  “Massive, massive miscalculation… And say he walk away today as a Patriot, the greatest ever the finish as a Patriot, if he finished his whole career here, Belichick might only be like five wins away from the record.”

• Listen to Zo react to the retirement of Tom Brady

• Gil and Gino call Tom Brady's first TD pass

   

  Tom Brady's first ever TD pass
  
  The rest is History pic.twitter.com/nXWv3G2fA8

  — Patriots By Fanly (@PatriotsByFanly) June 30, 2018

• The greatest ever. https://t.co/IZ5xnD7Bel

  — scottzolak 🏈 (@scottzolak) February 1, 2023

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