Tom Brady Predicts How Aaron Rodgers Will Fare in His First Year With Jets

The seven-time Super Bowl champion knows all about late-career changes of scenery.

Former Patriots and Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is ostensibly taking a year off from football-related duties before starting as an analyst for Fox in 2024.

However, that hasn’t stopped the future Hall of Famer from dispensing opinions as he adjusts to life outside the game.

On Monday’s episode of Let's Go!, Brady’s podcast with former Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald and broadcaster Jim Gray, Brady gave a positive assessment of the trade that sent quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the Jets on April 24.

“There’s a different energy about it. It’s a newness,” Brady said of Rodgers’s new surroundings. "It’s a fresh start to try to take where you’ve been, to bring all the good and then not to bring the tough lessons, you know? Because sometimes the tough lessons always remain unless you work through ‘em, you know?”

Brady expressed his belief that the Jets could inject life into Rodgers’s mindset. The longtime Packers quarterback played a central role in engineering a trade to New York, a storyline that dominated much of the early offseason.

“I’m excited for him. He’ll be invigorated. Looks like he’s having a good time up to this year,” Brady said. “I know he has been engaged in the offseason, which is always great, and really trying to connect with his teammates. So I’m excited to see what he does. They have a really good team... I think he’s gonna have a great year.”