Tom Brady isn't even close to done with the game of football.

In a wide-ranging interview with ESPN's Ian O'Connor the New England Patriots quarterback opened up about his playing window in the NFL and how much longer he plans to be suiting up on Sundays.

Brady, who will be 40-years old at the start of next season, has always had an age in mind as to when he'll hang it up, but that is clearly subject to change.

"I always said my mid-40s," Brady told O'Connor about a potential retirement age. "and naturally that means around 45. If I get there and I still feel like I do today, I don't see why I wouldn't want to continue."

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But is the wife in Gisele Bunchen, who after Super Bowl LI wished he'd retire from the league, on board with five or more years in the NFL, Tom?

"She wants me to do that, too," Brady said when asked about Gisele signing off on the mid-4os. "She also wants me to take good care of myself and still have my energy. My kids have grown up faster than I thought."

Brady has shown no signs of slowing down winning Super Bowl LI after a miraculous comeback where he rallied his team after going down by as much as 25-points to the Atlanta Falcons.

With that and Brady saying that if he feels good in his mid-40s he may keep going, how about we make it and even 50 years-old?

"That's a great question," he said. "If you said 50, then you can say 60, too, then 70. I think 45 is a pretty good number for right now. I know the effort it takes to be 40. ... My love for the sport will never go away. I don't think at 45 it will go away.

"At some point, everybody moves on. Some people don't do it on their terms. I feel I want it to be on my terms. I've got to make appropriate choices on how to do that, how to put myself in the best position to reach my long-term goals."

As O'Connor notes in his piece, that wasn't a full on "No!" from Brady, so it looks like we'll have to wait and see on that storyline.

In the immediate, Brady seems poised to be "Tom Brady" for the next handful of seasons, which makes the Jimmy Garoppolo wrinkle a fascinating one to follow.

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