It’s been more than five years since Tom Brady – arguably the greatest NFL player of all time — left the New England Patriots after 20 years in Massachusetts. In those two decades with the Patriots, Brady won six Super Bowls and appeared in three others.

"The reality was," wrote Brady, "after twenty years together, a natural tension had developed between where Coach Belichick and I were headed in our careers, and where the Patriots were moving as a franchise. It was the kind of tension that could only be resolved by some kind of split or one of us reassessing our priorities."

In the latest edition of his weekly newsletter published on Monday, Brady expanded on his decision to reach free agency and sign with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers roughly five years ago.