Clyde Christensen Believes Report That It Was Bucs Or Retirement For Tom Brady
February 2nd, 2023
Former Bucs QB coach Clyde Christensen believes BSPN report on Tom Brady.
Earlier this week, perhaps the lone NFL insider into now retired Tom Brady’s camp, Jeff Darlington of BSPN, reported that Brady had no intention of signing with another team other than the Bucs if he didn’t retire.
WTVT-TV Channel 13 sports anchor Kevin O’Donnell caught up with perhaps the closest Bucs coach to Brady, and that was former quarterbacks coach Clyde Christensen, a man Joe thought should have taken over as offensive coordinator midseason.
Joe always saw Christensen and Brady talking, sometimes laughing and joking. Brady sure seemed closer to Christensen than any coach after Bucco Bruce Arians retired.
In a sitdown with O’Donnell, Christensen explained Darlington’s intel on Brady sounds spot-on. Christensen didn’t think any other city that wanted Brady’s services held the same appeal.
“He loved Tampa,” Christensen said. “He loved the organization. I think he loved his teammates. I really always believed it was going to be [a choice of convenience].
“He could take off on a Tuesday and go pick up his kids from school and then be back here and still get his work done.
“I think it was Tampa. He loved living here. It was extremely practical from his family situation. I think he loved everything about it here.”
Brady was torn between returning and retiring, Christensen believes.
“That’s hard for a guy like him that loves football and loves playing and loves his family,” Christensen said. “It’s a natural conflict that all coaches and all players tend to go through.”
If Brady loves the organization so much, perhaps he can put in a good word to Derek Carr to come play for Tampa Bay, unless the Bucs want to #CollapseForCaleb?
Clyde Christensen retired from football after 43-years. Tom Brady followed his Bucs QB coach nearly 2 weeks later. Christensen sat down for a Q&A to talk #Brady, Retirement and Kyle Trask tonight on Fox 13 at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. Here’s a sneak peak. pic.twitter.com/OlobsMMbDw
— Kevin ODonnell Fox13🟦 (@ODonnellFox13) February 2, 2023
February 2nd, 2023 at 2:21 pm
1. I believe no one on this board cares what Clyde Christensen believes.
2. I believe TB12 is incredibly loyal to his team and teammates.
3. I believe TB12 would still be playing if Bowles didn’t run the team into the ground
February 2nd, 2023 at 2:25 pm
I believe Todd ran tom brady away from football
February 2nd, 2023 at 2:28 pm
This clamoring for Used Carr is misguided. He coat the Raiders a couple of games if not a playoff spot with his happy feet and jittery decision making.
February 2nd, 2023 at 2:30 pm
Tom Brady was a fine wine and we took the last sip…
It’s like the poet Poison once said –
Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn
Yeah it does.
It was pretty obvious to most of us that Tom Brady should be retired…
February 2nd, 2023 at 2:34 pm
Name one GM, one coach or one pundit that believes D Carr can win a championship….ok, so forget about him.
February 2nd, 2023 at 2:42 pm
I’ve been busy today
Have they found a real head coach yet?
February 2nd, 2023 at 2:45 pm
EZ call. When Bozo was retained Brady beat feet out of TPA on the quick.
February 2nd, 2023 at 2:48 pm
Im sure we would let tom be our quarterback well into his 60s, I would of been completely cool with it. Tom did more for us in 3 years than anyone did in the last 20… Really blows my mind you people trash him and are so incredibly negative.. you guys are the best “fans” in the world. Bucs are a family, loyalty is important
February 2nd, 2023 at 2:59 pm
What the hell is this clamoring for Carr all about. He’s Kirk cousins lite. The Joe’s or one of them has apparently lost it. If course you believe it was Tampa or nothing, it makes you feel better. Brady already said 90% of what he says is bunk. It makes him appear a bucs for life. Don’t buy it, any of it. Brady wanted MIAMI this season. He played here this year as an indentured servant. Can anyone here think critically any more? For the love of God.
February 2nd, 2023 at 3:03 pm
I always thought this and posted many times that if he did not retire he would stay with the Bucs. No way he would want to move, learn a new offense, and leave his teammates for a rival team. The rotten coaching and firings PLUS the press even dogging him with his kids and ex-wife made his retirement the best choice for him. He knows he can still play but his “new” life beckons. He wants to be somewhat out of the limelight now. I, for one, will miss him as QB terribly but am interested as hell with what the Bucs are formulating for this season.
February 2nd, 2023 at 3:21 pm
Does Robert Kraft’s offer of a one-day contract to Brady constitute tampering before the free agency bell rings? What can we get for compensation?
February 2nd, 2023 at 3:29 pm
For his age, Clyde has good calves. 🙂
February 2nd, 2023 at 3:33 pm
Crickett, they’re formulating failure, either by design or innocuously. Brady could’ve gone to the raiders and been quite comfortable in a familiar scheme. The hardo in SF may not have been able to get over 51.
We all.know the reports surrounding that. The dolphins thing was real last off season, but fell through for a number of reasons. They should’ve traded him. At least we’d have more picks.
February 2nd, 2023 at 3:33 pm
Tommy, like the rest of us, watched the last two rounds of the playoffs and knew it was time.
Not that he can’t sling the rock still, it’s the rest of his body that is one hit away from a wheelchair.
Eventually, the risk is just too great
He will always be the GOAT and he was never gonna screw us over, we gave him everything on a silver platter post NE
February 2nd, 2023 at 3:33 pm
I can see getting itch to come back after a year of sitting out
February 2nd, 2023 at 3:46 pm
Like I said a million times…..”If he plays, he stays”…
Watch the Brady Buc highlights……(a must watch)……what I came away wondering was…..what the hell happened to the Brady-Scotty connection?
February 2nd, 2023 at 3:47 pm
@ D-Rok
“For his age, Clyde has good calves.”
All the better… He can use them to walk out the door.
I was never a Clyde fan. From his time here in Tampa with Dungy (mentoring a young Trent Dilfer) to the time he rode Payton Mannig’s coat tales in Indy – I was never impressed.
I’m glad he is gone.
The pocket passer QB offense is dead. Sure – there will always be outliers like Joe Burrow but for the most part the age of the pocket passer is done in the NFL.
Defenses have become too fast, too athletic and too good at rushing the QB to have a non-mobile QB just standing in the pocket waiting to get sacked.
It’s time to evolve beyond the 20 year old offense Bruce Arians installed in Tampa.
Hire Greg Roman and run the spread option you fools!!!
February 2nd, 2023 at 3:50 pm
Brady may very well have loved it here, but I just read an article on Yahoo News that his teammates were making fun of him, and laughing at him behind his back!
According to this article, they were making fun of Brady about his situation with Giselle.
And, according to this article when Brady took those days off to try and save his marriage/family, it really sent several teammates over the edge.
February 2nd, 2023 at 3:57 pm
If Carr was smart, he’d sign with the 49ers for next to nothing. Maybe Shanahan could coach him up. Right now he’s Raiders garbage, and Joe is dying for him to come here for some reason. If this team only won 8 games with Tom Brady as QB, none of the FA QB’s including Carr won’t do much better. Besides we don’t have the money anyway. Time to pay the piper, suck for next year, and look to a QB rich draft next year, and rebuild.
February 2nd, 2023 at 3:59 pm
I am surprised by this not sure i believe it. I wish he would have ended his career with a winning record and possible addl superbowl somewhere else. Feel like bowles tainted his legacy a bit
February 2nd, 2023 at 4:20 pm
Other landing spots NEVER made any football sense. Brady is a smart guy.
Why would he go to the Raiders? Competing against Mahomes, Herbert and now Payton 6 games a year. He’d be at best playing for 3rd place every year with a bad organization and a worse roster than the Bucs.
Miami, would’ve made sense last year or with Sean Payton. Brady has no ties to McDaniel. The offensive system uses so many QB roll outs, bootlegs and waggles that would not be easy for a 46 year old Qb to execute. Yes, the system can be changed to fit him but then why would Miami give up on a promising young player for 1 year with Brady?
49ers, they have a stacked roster, and they can afford a stacked roster because they are not paying Lance or Purdy very much at all. Kyle Shannahan has showed he can go on a deep playoff run with a low round QB. Why stunt the growth of a young qb for 1 year with Brady who again you have to change your offense for?
It WAS ALWAYS Tampa or retire. This franchise gave him EVERYTHING he wanted on the field and even off. Not many other franchises are gonna do that for a player.
February 2nd, 2023 at 4:24 pm
I believe it and I also believe if toilet bowels would have fired leftwich before it was too late, Tom “might” have played another year. It’s not too late to fire Bowles.
February 2nd, 2023 at 4:28 pm
Brady is going to regain the weight he lost, his strength and focus will return, and he will realize he can still play at a high level. He very well may come back again.
Stress is a b!!ch. The physical and mental toll it takes is incredible. Once he’s away from the stress of adapting to the new realities in his personal life, he will be more relaxed, gain some weight, and start missing the game. I bet seeing the Super Bowl with 2 young QBs adds fuel to his fire.
(I broke up with a girlfriend, left my high stress and very public job as a paramedic, and moved west. It was very stressful. I lost weight, lost about 20-25% of my strength [I lift weights so it was easy to see], I couldn’t focus, I was jumpy as hell, and pretty damn irritable. So I kinda understand what he’s going through. I also know quitting my job was the absolute dumbest thing to do. Hopefully he realizes that sooner rather than later, if he does so at all.)
February 2nd, 2023 at 4:31 pm
For those asking, theoretically Derek Carr could be slotted into our offense right now and make us favorites to win the division in 2023. Colts, Saints, Panthers, Commanders, & NYJ are all teams also interested in acquiring Carrs’ services meaning there’s obviously value there. Raiders are dysfunctional, talented but Josh McDaniels is looking like fools gold similar to some of the other coaches from the Belichick coaching tree given HC opportunities elsewhere. I’m personally more confident in Carr being able to thrive outside of that organization than that organization suddenly turning it around because of Carrs’ absence.
Also, look up the dysfunction of that franchise, outside of the Gruden thing there are ex-employees suing because the Raiders denied paying out earned overtime and the financials being misappropriated to the point the Raiders didn’t pay their gotdamn light bill and workers showing up to work w/o power than being asked to sign NDAs so it doesn’t get out, because that’s embarassing af
February 2nd, 2023 at 4:39 pm
Brady and the Bucs would have had a much better year if Arians would have remained the coach. For example, Jensen wouldn’t have been injured because Logan Hall wouldn’t have been bum rushing him on the first day of training camp. Losing your All Pro center is a big deal.
Also, Arians would have let Brady play against Atlanta preserving his perfect record of winning seasons and allowing him to finish second in the league in passing. Legacy matters to TB12. That pissed him off something royal.
I’ve watched 95% of TB12 games since 1996. Outside of Lloyd Carr and Mike DeBord, two of the most boring, uncreative offensive minds that ever existed when he played at UM, Bowles and Leftwich were easily the worst Coach and OC he ever played for during the other 23 years.
If we could guess 75% of what Leftwich was calling… and never be surprised… and never be wow’d… and constantly being frustrated, it’s very very very safe to say coaching was at the heart of the struggles this year in Tampa and TB12.
Bowles is just as much responsible as Leftwich. Bowles pulled up lame at Cleveland. Bowles ok’d Jalen Darden returning kicks for half the year. Bowles had a say in whether Suh and JPP could do better than Logan Hall and JTS. Bowles sat his starters for most of the game at Atlanta. Bowles didn’t go for it in key moments with games on the line in 4th in manageable situations including Dallas.
Brady’s last season in Tampa was wasted by Bowles and Leftwich. Neither will sniff a head coaching job again when Bowles fails after this year. I was rooting for Bowles too because I like how he talked during interviews.
Brady and the Bucs would have been much better in 2022-23 if Arians would have stuck around and Brady would have played for at least another year too.
February 2nd, 2023 at 4:43 pm
I can’t imagine how they will get Bucs fans in the stands next fall.
The most bizarre chapter in Buccaneers history is sludging over into 2023
Absolutely NOTHING to be encouraged by
February 2nd, 2023 at 5:06 pm
@Marine,
I wasn’t advocating with, for, or against Clyde. I was just admiring his calves, and it looks like he has some meaty quads, too. What is he, like 70 or something? I want my calves to look that good when (if?) I get to be his age, LOL. (Bro, it’s an “old-person” kinda joke…for ex-jocks like me).
GO BUCS!!!
February 2nd, 2023 at 5:17 pm
@ D-Rok
LOL!!!
I gotcha…
And I want you to know I fully support the LGBTQ+ community.
Go Bucs!!!
February 2nd, 2023 at 5:19 pm
Kind of feels like the ’98 Bulls.
With what was going to be the team the following year Jordan had to leave. With the Bucs keeping Todd Bowles as head coach, Brady knows he can’t stay. Both teams break up was/ upper management fault.
February 2nd, 2023 at 5:38 pm
I think you’re correct AlwaysBucs. Everything you said made sense. I suppose one could argue the case for SF but I don’t think Shanahan wants a QB that less mobile than Jimmy Garoppolo. Tampa still made the most football sense if he came back if it was about winning.
February 2nd, 2023 at 5:43 pm
“Marine Buc Says:
February 2nd, 2023 at 5:17 pm
@ D-Rok
LOL!!!
I gotcha…
And I want you to know I fully support the LGBTQ+ community.”
Marine, I’m a heterosexual male with a loving wife and 2 kids in their 30’s. Not sure where the LG-whatever comment came from, but that’s not me.
I used to be a gym rat and power-lifter, so when I see someone with a good physique, I like to give props. Do you remember the physique on someone like Jack Lalane or whatever his name was? Even Arnold or Franco or Ferrigno…guys who kept their bodies in shape despite being up there in years.
February 2nd, 2023 at 6:22 pm
U maniacs think Brady is gonna sit out a full year, enter his contract with Fox, finally have a slice of pizza and a beer, and then at 47 come off the couch and find a team to play for!!?? That’s laughable man
February 2nd, 2023 at 6:30 pm
@ D-Rok
LOL!
I’m just busting chops buddy.
All good.
If you like 70 year old men’s calfs and lower legs – I am fully supportive of that.
No Worries.
February 2nd, 2023 at 6:50 pm
I am glad Brady is finally gone. He gave us 2 great years.and a Superbowl But this past season he was terrible and always whining. Things around him had to be almost perfect. Now go get an experienced QB.Or take your lumps with trask.
February 2nd, 2023 at 7:48 pm
Robert Kraft was on CNN being interviewed and wants to sign Brady to a one day contract to retire as a Patriot. Could this impact the Bucs salary cap?
February 2nd, 2023 at 7:54 pm
No. Those things are nothing but ceremonial. They pay a guy like $1 just to say he retired with Team-X. Maybe the player might get like $5,000 (or more) tied to some marketing deal the team has.
February 2nd, 2023 at 8:56 pm
Thanks, Toad.
— for turning 14-5 into 8-10
— for ruining what would have been the Bucs greatest playoff comeback ever, and 3rd best in history.
— for not realizing that your players aren’t comprehending what you’re teaching
— and ultimately for convincing Tom to retire rather than come back to a team you are head coach of.
February 2nd, 2023 at 8:57 pm
Bucs should outbid Kraft so Brady retires Buc.
February 2nd, 2023 at 9:37 pm
lol Goatfarmer
February 2nd, 2023 at 9:42 pm
who cares