When we have all praised, actively and passively, Tom Brady and his extensive and successful career in the NFL, it has been the protagonist himself who has surprised us by recognizing errors and imperfections. The former player of the Tampa Buccaneers He was the latest guest on “The Pivot Podcast” with Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor and Channing Crowder, where he opened up about the extreme methodology that sometimes became obsessive:
“What would have changed would have been the seriousness with which I began to take thingsbut most of all the game. I still love it, that’s obvious, and I get a little jealous when I see young guys like Patrick Mahomes, go out to enjoy, go out into the countryside laughing“I used to be like that and I don’t know what the hell happened to me.”
Like the rest of the mid-2010s Patriots under Bill Belichick, Brady often seemed to be subject to strict tactical and technical discipline which did not allow him to show his most cheerful game: “At times we seemed like robots,” said the former NFL player. “We did not allow ourselves a gesture, a grimace, we never joked with each other.”
I get a little jealous when I see young players like Patrick Mahomes
Tom Brady on “The Pivot Podcast”
A new, happier life
If there’s one thing Brady can’t blame himself for, it’s his competitiveness. He was the leader inside and outside the locker room. and he left his mark in all the dressing rooms he went through. Known for his intensity when it came to saying things to his teammates’ faces, like that day when destroyed one tablet against the floor or yelled in a teammate’s face.
That same intensity will be what he will have to continue putting into practice when narrating games, since the Seven-time Super Bowl champion He will be the protagonist, now on the microphone, in the face of the next season: “Now I have to learn first to recover that joy that I lost and enjoy this new phase of life a little more,” said Brady.
He will soon be 47 years old and must keep looking for balance between the life he left on the pitch, and which will never return, and this new world of possibilities that is opening up to him: “I have spent my whole life trying to meet the expectations that people had of me and, although I was always that 14-year-old boy excited about this sport, Now I have many other things“.
After his retirement in 2022, and after 23 years as a professional, Brady is still riding the crest of the wave thanks to a super contract NFL analyst for the league’s official channel, for the next 10 yearsand for which he will charge a total of $375 million. One of his last public appearances in which we saw Tom Brady was at the Patriots Hall of Fame presentation ceremony, where he also They retired his legendary number 12.
2024-07-02 20:10:13
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