Robert Kraft needs Tom Brady to signal one-day deal to retire from Patriots: ‘I might do it tomorrow’

Tom Brady has retired, positively in all probability actually this time. And New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft needs the best quarterback of all time to retire with a New England jersey on his again.

Throughout an look Thursday on “CNN This Morning,” Kraft mentioned he would find it irresistible if Brady signed a one-day contract to retire with the crew he led for 20 years.

“I might do it tomorrow,” Kraft mentioned when requested in regards to the risk by hosts Don Lemon and Poppy Harlow through Patriots.com. “I don’t simply need it, our followers are clamoring for it and to us he has all the time been and all the time can be a patriot. … We’ll do every little thing in our energy to convey him again, signal as a patriot and discover methods to honor him for years to return. He has carried out a lot to convey life and good cheer to our neighborhood and he’s a beloved determine and he has earned the respect and love individuals have for him like no different athlete in our city and us had some nice ones.”

Brady, 45, formally retired Wednesday after 23 years within the NFL (20 with the Patriots, three with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers). He launched the video precisely one yr after his preliminary retirement announcement, which he reversed 40 days later to return to the NFL and play the 2022 season. This time, Brady says his retirement is “without end.”

Kraft has wished Brady to retire with Pats for years

This isn’t the primary time Kraft has mentioned publicly that he would love Brady to step down as a member of the Patriots. On Oct. 3, 2021, Kraft was interviewed on the NFL Community simply hours earlier than Brady returned to Foxboro Stadium for the primary time since signing with the Bucs in 2020 (and successful the Tremendous Bowl in a Tampa Bay uniform). Kraft showered reward on Brady and made it clear he wished him to retire with the Pats.

“I all the time cheer for Tommy besides when he’s enjoying us,” the Patriots proprietor advised former New England linebacker Willie McGinest on NFL Community Sunday. “In the long run I hope and consider that he comes again right here and we give him his crimson jacket and he’ll retire a patriot.”

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Now the query is: will Brady settle for? It’s attainable he wants extra off-game time on condition that the Bucs have had a disappointing season and he just lately went via the dissolution of his 10-year marriage to supermodel Gisele Bundchen. But it surely’s additionally in all probability laborious to withstand an invite to spend a day being liked, praised, and adored by the crew that gave you the possibility to change into the best QB of all time.

Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft needs Tom Brady to return to the crew for a day to signal a contract and retire as a Patriot. (Photograph by Jim Rogash/Getty Pictures)

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