Tom Brady starred through a completely ripped MCL during Buccaneers Super Bowl season, report says

The story of Tom Brady’s first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers just got more incredible. While the 43-year-old set a franchise record with 40 passing touchdowns and led the Buccaneers to a Super Bowl victory, he apparently did so on a completely ripped MCL.

Thursday, Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network reported that Brady played the 2020 season on a completely ripped MCL – an injury he corrected with surgery this offseason. Previously, we hadn’t had many details about the mysterious knee surgery Brady had undergone, except that the future professional football Hall of Fame had described her as “pretty serious”, and it was something that Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians was wary of the mandatory minicamp. Brady also admitted that this was an issue he had been playing on for some time.

“From that point at the start of the season, at the start of training camp, I really feel like I can really work hard to improve football instead of going back to rehab, you know, a place where you’re more basic online, ”Brady said last month. “It was an injury that I have really treated since April, last May. I knew I had to do something at the end of the year, and I’m glad I did. It was probably something. that definitely needed to be done and there was a great result so I’m very happy about that. I think I will be able to do different things this year than I was able to do last year. “

Brady had 4,633 yards, 40 touchdowns and 12 interceptions last season, and helped the Buccaneers improve their record from 7-9 to 11-5. It wasn’t a perfect year, but Brady and the Bucs defense activated it in the playoffs and knocked out the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV to the tune of 31-9. It looks like Brady can play for as long as he wants, and he has said this offseason that his motivation has now just proven himself.

“It’s hard to walk away from something that you still think you can and want to do,” Brady said via NFL.com. “So it’s not about proving to others what you can do, it’s more about proving it to yourself. And I still feel like even though I’m going to be 44 this year, I still have a chance to prove to myself that I can still do it at 44, because I’ve really worked to a point where I can still do it at that age. “