Fans finally see the real Tom Brady with shocking Bill Belichick revelation instead of boring NFL TV broadcaster
This is the Tom Brady that we have been waiting for. Unfiltered, direct and painfully real. Tom Brady, right, revealed the real reason why he split from Bill Belichick In other words, someone actually worth listening to while he’s paid $375 million to call NFL games on TV. “After 20 years together, a natural tension had developed between where Coach (Bill) Belichick and I were headed in our careers, and where the Patriots were moving as a franchise,” Brady penned in a recent newsletter. “It was the kind of tension that could only be resolved by some kind of split or one of us reassessing our priorities.” Serious, life-changing tension between the GOAT of NFL players and head coaches? Enough simmering animosity that Brady’s 2020 decision to leave the New England Patriots‘ dynasty behind and sign with the once-laughable Tampa Bay Buccaneers now makes perfect sense? Now we’re cooking with gas. “For me, it was a creeping decision that lived passively in the back of mind for 2-3 years until March of 2020,” Brady wrote. “A whirlwind of a few days made me realize that a decision was coming sooner rather than later.” Forget, if possible, all of Brady’s canned and corny lines on TV last season. He was just a rookie — and he definitely was no Greg Olsen. Brady was controversial on TV for being too boringGetty He won six Super Bowls with New EnglandGetty But he left Belichick and won his seventh ring with Tampa BayGetty “Oh come on,” NFL Red Zone host Scott Hanson said. “Brady has gotta get more excited than that in the booth.” The brutally honest Brady in that revealing newsletter is worth listening to. It’s also what FOX had to be hoping for when it gave $375m to a seven-time Super Bowl winner who was expected to be as real in the booth as he was on the field. There was obvious tension within the Patriots in the years leading up to the Brady-Belichick split. New England took the GOAT QB for granted, while Belichick gave Brady fewer and fewer legit offensive weapons. NFL's Greatest...... Ranking the top 10...... Quarterbacks of all-time – Can anyone better Tom Brady? Wide receivers of all-time – Does Randy Moss or Jerry Rice come out on top? Running backs of all-time – Stacking Jim Brown, Barrie Sanders, Walter Payton, Emmett Smith and more Tight ends of all-time – How does Travis Kelce compare? The scale tipped so heavily toward Belichick — his team, his system, his all-time greatness — that a quarterback who leads the NFL in almost every significant career passing category realized that his only option was to leave the dark shadow of The Hoodie. “What I ended up with was a list of about twenty things that I then ranked and graded on a weighted scale from 1 to 3,” Brady wrote. “The presence of skill players was a 3 in terms of importance, for example, and the Bucs graded out as a 3 because of guys like Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. “The same was true for the head coach. That was a 3 in importance, and Tampa scored a 3 with Bruce Arians.” Brady turned his personal checklist into his seventh Super Bowl ring, with talent across the NFL following him to once-barren Tampa Bay. Then TB12 became a “great teammate,” Bucs teammate Ndamukong Suh exclusively told talkSPORT. Belichick burned through Cam Newton, Mac Jones and Bailey Zappe, finishing 4-13 in 2023 before being coldly dumped on the curb by Patriots owner Robert Kraft a few years too late. In 2025, there is no debate. Brady is the best QB in NFL history, and his athletic achievements can’t be questioned. The 72-year-old Belichick is coaching college football in North Carolina because he couldn’t get an NFL job, and he’s often now in the news more for his 24-year-old girlfriend than because of anything he does on the football field. When Brady actually speaks and says something real, fans will immediately listen and pay attention. The $375 million man should remember that the next time he steps back into a TV booth. Be more like the real ‘newsletter’ Brady, and less like the guy phoning it on while calling the Super Bowl. Tension is everywhere in the NFL, and football drama never ends.
This is the Tom Brady that we have been waiting for.
Unfiltered, direct and painfully real.
In other words, someone actually worth listening to while he’s paid $375 million to call NFL games on TV.
“After 20 years together, a natural tension had developed between where Coach (Bill) Belichick and I were headed in our careers, and where the Patriots were moving as a franchise,” Brady penned in a recent newsletter.
“It was the kind of tension that could only be resolved by some kind of split or one of us reassessing our priorities.”
Serious, life-changing tension between the GOAT of NFL players and head coaches?
Enough simmering animosity that Brady’s 2020 decision to leave the New England Patriots‘ dynasty behind and sign with the once-laughable Tampa Bay Buccaneers now makes perfect sense?
Now we’re cooking with gas.
“For me, it was a creeping decision that lived passively in the back of mind for 2-3 years until March of 2020,” Brady wrote.
“A whirlwind of a few days made me realize that a decision was coming sooner rather than later.”
Forget, if possible, all of Brady’s canned and corny lines on TV last season.
He was just a rookie — and he definitely was no Greg Olsen.
“Oh come on,” NFL Red Zone host Scott Hanson said.
“Brady has gotta get more excited than that in the booth.”
The brutally honest Brady in that revealing newsletter is worth listening to.
It’s also what FOX had to be hoping for when it gave $375m to a seven-time Super Bowl winner who was expected to be as real in the booth as he was on the field.
There was obvious tension within the Patriots in the years leading up to the Brady-Belichick split.
New England took the GOAT QB for granted, while Belichick gave Brady fewer and fewer legit offensive weapons.
NFL's Greatest......
Ranking the top 10......
Quarterbacks of all-time – Can anyone better Tom Brady?
Wide receivers of all-time – Does Randy Moss or Jerry Rice come out on top?
Running backs of all-time – Stacking Jim Brown, Barrie Sanders, Walter Payton, Emmett Smith and more
Tight ends of all-time – How does Travis Kelce compare?
The scale tipped so heavily toward Belichick — his team, his system, his all-time greatness — that a quarterback who leads the NFL in almost every significant career passing category realized that his only option was to leave the dark shadow of The Hoodie.
“What I ended up with was a list of about twenty things that I then ranked and graded on a weighted scale from 1 to 3,” Brady wrote.
“The presence of skill players was a 3 in terms of importance, for example, and the Bucs graded out as a 3 because of guys like Mike Evans and Chris Godwin.
“The same was true for the head coach. That was a 3 in importance, and Tampa scored a 3 with Bruce Arians.”
Brady turned his personal checklist into his seventh Super Bowl ring, with talent across the NFL following him to once-barren Tampa Bay.
Then TB12 became a “great teammate,” Bucs teammate Ndamukong Suh exclusively told talkSPORT.
Belichick burned through Cam Newton, Mac Jones and Bailey Zappe, finishing 4-13 in 2023 before being coldly dumped on the curb by Patriots owner Robert Kraft a few years too late.
In 2025, there is no debate.
Brady is the best QB in NFL history, and his athletic achievements can’t be questioned.
The 72-year-old Belichick is coaching college football in North Carolina because he couldn’t get an NFL job, and he’s often now in the news more for his 24-year-old girlfriend than because of anything he does on the football field.
When Brady actually speaks and says something real, fans will immediately listen and pay attention.
The $375 million man should remember that the next time he steps back into a TV booth.
Be more like the real ‘newsletter’ Brady, and less like the guy phoning it on while calling the Super Bowl.
Tension is everywhere in the NFL, and football drama never ends.
