Brady sets potential retirement date: 'I would love to play 5 more years'

The battle of "Tom vs. Time" may have found an agreeable point at which to call a draw.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady released an epilogue Wednesday on Facebook to his documentary that was released in January, in which he seems to set a tentative plan for an eventual retirement from football.

"I would love to play five more years," Brady said. "It will be a challenge for me. I don't think it's going to be easy. It's f---ing going to be hard to do. I think it's going to be very hard to do. But I think I can do it."

Brady turned 41 years old in August, and playing five more seasons would take him through his age-45 campaign. The 2017 MVP says there's no reason to stop while continuing to play at the top of his game.

"Once you stop, you're done," Brady said. "And I think I'm not ready to say that I'm done, 'cause I don't feel like I am. I still feel like there's things to accomplish. It would be like getting close to the top of the mountain and going, 'Ah, it's good, I'm good.' No. You worked really hard to get to this point. Why not finish it off?

"Look at my career from, I don't know, 30, 32, 33 on. A lot of players retire at 33. You look at football, 10-year career, that's an amazing career. I mean, I think the last eight years of my career have been better than the first 10. So I should just prolong it. And that's why I'm trying to do."

Brady was chosen in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. The 13-time Pro Bowler has career totals of 66,159 passing yards, 488 touchdowns, and a 63.9 percent completion rate in the regular season.

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He led the league in both passing attempts and yards in 2017, earning a third All-Pro honor while leading the Patriots to a second consecutive Super Bowl appearance.

- With h/t to Pro Football Talk

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