here s sunday s playoff games. the chiefs host the afc championship game the fourth straight season. they welcome the bengals to arrow head stadium. the 49ers heading to l.a. to face the rams. super bowl lvi on february 13th at sofi stadium. the rams looking to become the second team to play the super bowl in their home stadium. brady and the bucs winning it. i don t know what to say, guys. that was the greatest weekend in nfl football ever. it s going to be hard to top it next week. so, all this whole tom brady retirement stuff, the way he performed, the old guy has got it better than anybody else out there. i can just only imagine he wants to come back and do that again, you know? he s going to do it. i don t think he s going to retire. he s coming back for another season. he always said 45 years old. that was unbelievable football to watch. all right, andy. i love christine s enthusiasm. a it takes a lot to get me excited.
winning that one, 30-27. in nmy mind, i live for thos kind of moments. i would have loved to make the score. you steal somebody s soul. that s what it feels like. man, we had this great comeback, and you get to reach in there and take it from them. that s a whole lot of fun. yeah, many are wondering was this the last time we ll see tom brady walk off an nfl field. before the game, brady undecided about coming back for an nfl season. here s what the 44-year-old had to say about his future in the game. i haven t put a lot of thought to it. i ll take it day by day and see what happens. truth is, i m thinking about this game, i m not thinking about any test five minutes from now. all right.
thanks so much. all right, phil. joining us now is nfl, former nfl offensive guard, damian woody. you won two super bowls with tom brady. on his offensive line. i m not going to ask you to explain what s happening right now although you re more than welcome to tell me if tom has called you and told you what he s going to do. i think one of the interesting things now is you know, as somebody who knows him, played with him and understands how he operates, would it be a surprise to you or was it a surprise to you when you saw some of your espn colleagues report today that he was going to hang it up? it wasn t a surprise. think about it. the guy s 44 years old. played 22 years in the national football league. and you ve gone down the list of accolades he s accomplished. for me, it was the podcast with jim gray. there was a specific word he used and that was the word satisfied. and when you re talking about the greatest of the great athletes, whether it s tom brady, michael jordan, al
that this could be his final year. right there at the end. we kind of took it for granted this entire season just because he said yeah, you know, i can play to 50. so we were all just thinking oh, yeah, this isn t brady s final season. when it came to that rams game, it was kind of like when they lost and he came back in spectacular fashion was walking off the field, youc know, that when it hit me. is this the last time we re watching tom brady walk off an nfl field then to hear what he said in that let s go podcast, it really became a real possibility and had to come at some point, phil. it would be hard for tom brady to go out winning another super bowl. we take it for granted he s won so many. just he s going to lift the trophy and walk off into the sunset. that s not realistic for a lot of people. peyton manning was able to do it. a big part of that, peyton m
time, is retiring. joining me now by phone is former nfl tight end, ben watson. thanks for the time. not going to ask you to try to decode what s going on. but as somebody who played with tom brady, won an nfl championship with tom brady, i believe the first touchdown pass you caught in your career was with tom brady. if this is the end, what will you take away as your memory of him? i appreciate you not pressing me because i have no idea what s going on, but i do know that with tom, i m sure he would love to be the one to make that announcement. for me, even in hearing the news and telling my kids, honestly, there was a sense of a little sadness because this guy s been playing quarterback position for 22 years. for many of us, and for me, my first touchdown pass, seven years playing with the patriots and other than that, just being a fan of the game and of excellence, what i take away is a guy who came to work every day