FOXBOROUGH — When Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension officially begins Saturday at 4 p.m., he will not be able to practice, play, or have any contact with his team again until Monday, Oct. 3.

So these are his final few days with his teammates before this unusual, lengthy, and inevitable absence. On Tuesday, he was asked how he planned to stay sharp during the hiatus.

“We’ll see,’’ he said.

He was then asked if he planned to stay in the area.

“We’ll see,’’ he said.

Finally, he was asked if he planned on sharing his plan at all.

“No, I don’t,’’ he said, before explaining that he did not want to give any tips to other NFL players who might find themselves in a similar quandary.

Even for a player like Brady who has seemingly done it all and seen it all and smiled or smirked through it all, these are uncharted waters. So for now he is simply focused on his final week with the Patriots and the team’s final preseason game, which comes Thursday against the Giants. But it is safe to say that his full plan for the suspension will be meticulous.

“I’m pretty positive. I’m going to use these days the best way that I possibly can,’’ Brady said. “I’m going to try to get ready and do everything I can so I can be at my best when I have the opportunity to play in October. I’ve tried to just find different ways to be positive, but it is what it is at this point, so we’ll do the best we can do.’’

Although Brady will not be able to train with any Patriots during his suspension, he will surely find other receivers to throw footballs to. On Tuesday, he was reminded by a reporter that the NFL would allow him to continue to work with his body coach, Alex Guerrero, during the suspension, even though Guerrero is allowed to be on the sidelines during Patriots games.

Brady, with a clear tinge of sarcasm, said it was nice of the league to allow that. He said he and Guerrero would maintain their normal regimens.

“We’ll use all these days in the best way that’s possible to stay prepared and stay sharp,’’ said Brady. “I have ideas of what I need to do based on all the practices that we’ve had and the limited playing time that I’ve had.

“My goal is to come back and be the best that I can be, just like every other year, every other offseason. I’m going to do the best I can do over these next however many days.’’

While workouts and training sessions might feel like business as usual for Brady, at some point he will need to confront the unfamiliar reality that is brought on by a lonely Sunday afternoon, when he is unable to do the part of his job that he loves most.

“I love playing in practice, I love playing preseason games, regular-season games, postseason games,’’ Brady said. “I love thinking about football. It’s just the way it is. That part, I think, will be very challenging, watching those games in September, but I’ll find ways to preoccupy my mind.’’

Brady acknowledged that it will be difficult to watch the Patriots play games without him, but he also said that in some ways, it will be fun to see what the team looks like when he is not a part of it.

“That’s a different perspective,’’ he said. “Hopefully I can use that perspective and then come back with better perspective, saying, ‘Wow, I really noticed some things that maybe I wouldn’t have seen had I been there.’ So that’s what I’m going to try to do.’’

In 2008, of course, Brady watched essentially the entire season unfold without him, as he suffered a season-ending knee injury in the Patriots’ opening game against the Chiefs. But that experience, he said, was different because he was so focused on the injury and his recovery and his own state of mind that he was unable to fully process what was going on around him.

Now, even though he will be sidelined, he will be healthy, ready, and eager. How quickly and seamlessly will he regain his rhythm when he returns in October? We’ll see.

“Hopefully, when I come back in October,’’ Brady said, “I’ll be a better player than I am today.’’