At age 43, Tom Brady threw for over 4,600 yards, 40 touchdown passes all while leading the Buccaneers to the Super Bowl in his first year with Tampa Bay.
It was a pretty historic season, but it was even more impressive than many thought because of a knee injury the quarterback dealt with all season.
"It was an injury I dealt with really since last April, May," Brady said to reporters Wednesday following Buccaneers minicamp. "I knew I would have to do something at the end of the year. Happy I did it. It was probably something that was — it certainly needed to be done and there was a great outcome. So I'm very happy about that. I feel I'll be able to do some different things than I was able to do last year."
The quarterback had surgery a few days after the Super Bowl.
"I never like to talk about injuries, I'm just a little bit old school in that way," Brady said. "You deal with them and you just make the most of them. The good part is I'll be able to commit a lot of time to other parts — I'm sure I'll be faced with different adversities this year — but I had to spend a lot of time tending to that particular injury, which happens when you have something that you need to ultimately have surgery on to get it fixed."
Brady and the Bucs will look to repeat as Super Bowl champs this year with the majority of the team returning.
