The Facts: For 20 seasons, Brady knew only one way -- the "Patriot Way" -- but it took just one additional season to realize that it wasn't the only way to achieve success. "When you're in one place for 20 years, you think that's the only way," Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview that aired Wednesday. "And I think when you go to a different place, you realize, 'Wow, there's another way that people do things.'"
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He later added: "I was the new guy for the first time, you know. And that was a really different experience."
Those new experiences resulted in a familiar outcome, as Brady won another Super Bowl championship -- his seventh overall -- in his first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He signed with the Bucs as a free agent last offseason, leaving behind the legacy he had built with the Patriots, It was the first season that he had played for a head coach other than New England's Bill Belichick. "[Bruce Arians] is a great motivator," Brady said of the Bucs' coach. "He's got a great feel for the team ... a great pulse for what's going on in a locker room, great intuition, great evaluation of talent." And at age 43, Brady relied on motivation to keep his competitive fire stoked en route to winning his fifth Super Bowl MVP award and the body of work isn't finished. Brady is tied to the Bucs through the 2022 season after agreeing to an extension this offseason that saved $19 million against the salary cap for 2021. Besides, as Brady summed up: "Once you stop, you can't go back and do it. I got some more football [left in me]. I mean, not a lot -- and I know that. But what I got left, I'm gonna go and give everything I got."