drew bledsoe
Drew Bledsoe tells Dan Patrick he decided to retire to spend more time with his family and holds forth on Tom Brady and Tony Romo as QBs.
Being benched at halftime of Dallas’ sixth game - the third time Bledsoe lost his starting job though the first time he’d been outright replaced during the season - did not rob Bledsoe of his confidence. 1 overall selection in 1993 by the New England Patriots out of Washington State, Bledsoe spent his first nine seasons with the Patriots, the next three with the Buffalo Bills, and his last two with the Dallas Cowboys. “I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans,” Bledsoe said in a statement released through his representatives at Athletes First.
I never once stayed down.” Bledsoe was unable to regain his starting job from Tom Brady - he did, however, get a relief win in the AFC title game - and the following offseason the Patriots dealt him to Buffalo. His signing with the Cowboys prior to 2005 reunited him with Bill Parcells, the coach who drafted him in New England.
Bledsoe, however, says he harbors no ill will toward Parcells, Belichick, the Bills, anyone. A four-time Pro Bowler, Bledsoe backed up Tony Romo for the Cowboys’ final 11 games last season and had no interest in continuing his career in that role.
With Dallas headed toward a disappointing 3-3 start, Parcells benched Bledsoe in favor of Romo at halftime of a nationally-televised game against the Giants.
“I felt like this was the way I was going to go late in the season.
Bledsoe, who led New England to an appearance in Super Bowl XXXI and earned his lone championship ring with the Patriots in 2001, listed among his proudest accomplishments the respectable manner in which he carried himself on and off the field and the fact that he never literally had to be carried off the playing field.
There’s no bitterness toward anyone over anything that happened.”






