NFL: Was Tom Brady’s ‘Back in My Days’ Rant Right?

Stu Goetz’s “The Dan Le Batard Show” discussed Brady’s criticism of the NFL’s mediocrity.

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• exist November 21, 2023 1:45 pm

Greg Cote may not be in the studio for Tuesday’s episode of The Dan Le Batard performs with Stugotz But there’s still a “back in my day” segment, courtesy of Tom Brady!

Brady, who recently joined Stephen A. Smith’s podcast, unleashed himself in a way he never did while in New England.

First, Mike said Brady looks great! A year away from football, if it does end up being a year away (a comeback can never be ruled out), you have done the Brady Miracle! Mike says his tan, skin looks great!

Back to the topic at hand, Mike said it was a really bad point that Brady didn’t throw the ball down the middle of the field with Ray Lewis lurking. Still, as Chris Cote pointed out, few players are at the level of defenders Brady mentioned in his perspective. Dan said he wanted to say what the hell he was talking about, but Brady clearly had more expertise than anyone listening to what he was watching. Not to mention, as Mike pointed out, there’s a lot of longevity in playing in a few different eras in the NFL.

But, as Dan points out, Brady sounds like every old player who retires and complains about how things were better in his day. To be fair, Dan says it also ignores the fact that many Brady rules condemn Brady as a direct result of his injuries. When he got hurt, they changed the rules! Dan says his complaint is that NFL legislation protects him above almost everyone else!

Mike asked a tough question: Did we miss Brady this year? Of course, we’re usually excited to watch football games, but he points out that prime-time games already do a lot of that. Mike has a theory that we see a lot of subpar games and a lot of bad prime time games in prime time, partly because he’s not in the league anymore. Mike misses Brady. to a lot. He doesn’t necessarily miss his days in Tampa specifically, but just being in the NFL as a whole makes games feel like an event.

Dan said he doesn’t watch the NFL and wouldn’t think what Brady was thinking in that clip. Dan didn’t think what he saw was a mediocre product. He thinks he’s looking at this product at the height of human athleticism and precision, and it’s also trying to navigate and legislate through the maze of all these injured players. Dan says it’s too dangerous and it’s unsustainable to keep humans healthy for an entire NFL season.

Additionally, Mike noted that no one wants to admit that the defense is getting better. He said the defenses were built to stop what they saw in KC, read options, etc. Mike said you can only dominate for so long and Tom Brady is the only one who can dominate for an entire era. Mike said it was a great era for defense, but it wasn’t sexy, although he noted there was nothing sexier than Tom.

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