00:00Tom Brady on Philip Rivers' Colts comeback.
00:03I certainly could still play QB in NFL at age 4'8
00:06in light of 44-year-old Philip Rivers coming out of retirement.
00:10The question was obvious.
00:11Does Tom Brady, at 48, believe he could still play at an NFL level?
00:17The seven-time Super Bowl champion didn't hesitate
00:20when asked by Colin Cowherd on the herd.
00:23If he could lead multiple scoring drives in a system he knows, yes.
00:27I certainly could, Brady said Thursday, via Fox Sports.
00:32I think the answer for me would be yes.
00:34I'm not allowed to anymore because I'm a minority owner of the Raiders,
00:38so I can't unretire.
00:40Brady had to underline the impossible nature of his situation,
00:44with partial ownership negating the option to return.
00:47Otherwise, he might be inundated with questions
00:49about why he doesn't take the field for his own squad,
00:52which is currently in QB purgatory.
00:54There is little doubt from a mental or competitive argument
00:58that Brady could probably still sling it well.
01:02The GOAT retired in 2023 at the age of 45.
01:06After putting up his sixth consecutive season of 4,000-plus yards,
01:10messing 4,694, only Dak,
01:13Prescott is on pace to surpass that figure this season, 4,756.
01:18He led the NFL in completions and attempts in back-to-back years
01:22before officially retiring.
01:24The real question is, after so much time off,
01:28would he be able to take repeated hits?
01:30Walking away after the 2022 season was, of course, Brady's second retirement.
01:36The quarterback famously retired prior to that final campaign,
01:39then unretired 40 days later.
01:41He retires and then unretires and then is ultimately going to retire again.
01:46Who does that?
01:47That's ridiculous for Phillip to do that, Brady quipped.
01:51Brady believes rivers.
01:53For years, his junior can succeed because of his mental acumen.
01:57This game is about,
01:58For the quarterback, from the neck up, Brady said,
02:01We used to have a saying at Michigan,
02:04The mental is to the physical,
02:05as four is to one at the quarterback position.
02:09That doesn't really go away.
02:11Do you still have the physical ability to still do it?
02:14Take the hits?
02:15Make the throws?
02:16The drops?
02:17Buy a little time in the pocket?
02:19If Phillip has been practicing those things,
02:21then we're all going to see it on full display in Seattle on Sunday afternoon.
02:26Rivers Colts kick off against the Seahawks at 425 p.m. ET.
02:29And then we're going to see it on Sunday afternoon.
