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Tom Brady on Leaving Patriots for Bucs: 'I Have Things to Prove to Myself'

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Tom Brady is a six-time Super Bowl champion, three-time MVP and one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history. However, the 42-year-old still feels he has unfinished business he could address only through leaving the New England Patriots.

Brady wrote about his move to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in an essay on the Players' Tribune:

"Right now, though, I have things to prove to myself. The only way is through. If I don’t go for it, I'll never know what I could have accomplished.