Tom Brady remains unbeaten against Father Time.
On Sunday, the 43-year-old quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won his seventh Super Bowl title and fifth Super Bowl MVP Award after the 31-9 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV.
Brady, who is scheduled for off-season left knee surgery, has said he wants to play until he’s 45, if not longer.
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After Sunday’s game, Brady said he will return for the 2021 season to finalize the $ 50 million two-year contract he signed last year. Which means the Buccaneers must prepare for an eventual future without Brady in Tampa Bay. According to the Pewter report, Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht believes current backup quarterback Blaine could be Gabbert Brady’s successor.
“First of all, I love his energy. I got really close to Blaine this year, just on the sidelines. He’s a really smart guy, but he’s a guy my scouts and I talk about this a lot, he’s just a guy that I like to see throw in practice every day because he has a cannon. He’s also very accurate with his throws and he can just really whistle them in tight windows. If he was forced to play, he played in Detroit, but if he were forced to play more I think he really would have opened a lot of people’s eyes about how talented he is, especially since he was in the same system for a a few years. … I’m not going to rule out anything now. “
Gabbert was a first-round draft pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2011, finishing No. 10 overall. In three years with the Jaguars, he went 5-22 as a starter. Since leaving Jacksonville after the 2013 season, he has bounced around the NFL, playing for the San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals and Tennessee Titans, before landing with the Jaguars before the start of the 2020 season. Gabbert played in four games last season and threw a total of 16 passes.
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