In a recent podcast with ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Alex Guerrero, Tom Brady’s trainer and close friend, revealed that the Buccaneers organization had limited or no knowledge that Tom Brady played the entire 2020 season with a torn MCL.

The news on Brady’s injury originally came out here on the Pewter Report Podcast with head coach Bruce Arians. Later, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network revealed that it was in fact a fully torn MCL that Brady suffered in his final season with the Patriots.

On The Adam Schefter podcast, the reporter asked Guerrero point blank, “A lot of the people in the Bucs organization didn’t have any idea that he had a knee injury, no less a torn MCL, am I correct about that?”

“That would be correct,” Guerrero said.

“You knew about it though?” Schefter asked.

“I did,” Guerrero replied.

Brady, who at the age of 43, led the Bucs to their second Super Bowl championship, showed no signs of an injury while amassing 4,633 yards to go with 40 touchdowns. Brady then added another 1,061 yards and 10 touchdowns in the postseason.

When Schefter asked Guerrero if he ever thought Brady would miss a game, the trainer confidently replied, “No.”

“Challenges certainly, but we love challenges, we thrive on challenges,” Guerrero said. “There was never a time where I thought he wasn’t going to be able to play. We’re very committed and very dedicated to the work that needs to get put in to accomplish the outcome we’re looking for. We knew going into the season he had it and at the end of the season we’re going to have to fix it. We worked really hard and maintained enough tissue pliability to make sure the forces of the impact of his sport were on other areas so that we could kind of take the force away from that one place.”

Heading into his 22nd season, this type of injury and recovery could force most players into retirement. Not Brady though, who intends to play until the age of 45. But such a surgery can still take a toll on a player of Brady’s age. Guerrero isn’t worried though.

“I think you’re going to see the same Tom Brady you’ve seen every year,” Guerrero said. “He’s going to take every year as a new year. He’s got goals and aspirations for what he wants to accomplish this year. You know this is a new year. We never look in the rearview mirror, we’re always looking forward. We never look at what we’ve accomplished or what’s been accomplished.

“So this is a new year and you know the goal is the same. We’re going to work really hard, as hard as we possibly can to be the best we can be. I know that’s his mindset. He’s going to work as hard as he can possibly work to be the best he can be for his team.”