Crazy scenario for Tom Brady to return in 2023 suggested

Former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady officially announced his second retirement from the National Football League earlier this week, and he was sure to include in his announcement that he filmed on an unnamed beach that this retirement would be permanent. 

However, he said that he wouldn't be coming into the Fox broadcast booth until 2024 - was there some kind of hidden meaning behind that? 

Carl Dukes and Jason La Canfora of the Audacy Original Podcast “In The Huddle” floated a crazy theory in which Brady could actually return to action next season for one more go at it. 

"(Monday) we find out that he’s going to take a year off before he starts the FOX broadcast job,” Dukes said (1:30 in player above). “So it opens the door – does it not – for everybody to speculate that some point next season – I don’t know where; I don’t know what team – that he’s going to come back and play.”

“Do I think in his heart of hearts he thinks this is the end? Absolutely. I also think he believed that this time a year ago,” La Canfora said. “I think there’s more conviction in it now. I think another season when he was more human than not plays into that.

“However – as Stephen A. Smith might say –, you’re going to tell me that some established coach who’s having a hell of a year couldn’t get him on the backphone couple days after Thanksgiving and say ‘Here’s the deal, man, we don’t even need to do the contract now. Do you feel like getting in shape? If you feel like going out there with Tom House for a couple of weeks – doesn’t have to be a month – and you think it’s going well, I’m going to send you a playbook, look at it, you can not look at it,’ or it might be somebody where there’s already familiarity, whatever."