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Inside the 90-minute phone call sealed Tom Brady’s Patriots exit

General manager Jason Licht and head coach Bruce Arians went in thinking they needed an aggressive pitch to have a prayer of winning the Brady sweepstakes, according to the Tampa Bay Times, but the 42-year-old quarterback came prepared. By the end of the call, it began to sink in what had just gone down.

“When they hung up the phone, Licht and Arians looked at each other incredulously, as if to say, ‘Wow, this is really happening,’”

Official: TB12 to Tampa Bay

Buccaneers reporter Rick Stroud wrote Sunday (AEDT) in a behind-the-scenes look at how Brady landed with the Buccaneers.