Reply to Tom Brady

Tom Brady has made the following statement these days: “I think there’s a lot of mediocrity in the NFL today. I don’t see the excellence that I’ve seen in the past. I don’t think the practices are as effective and I don’t think I think the development of young players will be. As good as ever.”

Through this column, I allow myself to respond to GOAT as follows:

What does Brady mean? Why didn’t quarterbacks have so many rules in place to protect them before? Did past WRs have to struggle for receptions because of interference rule changes that didn’t last until 2004, which resulted in more completions? In the past, defenders couldn’t even hit the quarterback at will from the knee down? When were injuries treatments and techniques not so advanced?

Watch out Brady! ! ! Talking about how things were always better in the past is a product of selective thinking, in which memories distort our view of the past and make us believe it was more positive than it actually was. This is a very normal temptation, but It’s ultimately wrong, and it doesn’t do you any good because it incorporates positions that don’t contribute to your cause.

because?

Quite simply, because if you pay attention to the issues I pointed out earlier, and we all take them seriously, they can be used to question the fact that you are the greatest player of all time just because of those who were in your position People who played football in the real past that you were not a part of, like Otto Graham, Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas, Frank Tarkenton, Terry Bradshaw, Like Roger Staubach, Joe Montana, Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, John Elway and Steve Young among others; all with you to win this battle and will Players who identify themselves as “GOATs”, despite not having played under these conditions in the past, can contact you through these comments.

On the other hand, talk about mediocrity today with a young talent like Pat Mahomes who is starting to write his own story (fastest in history to reach 10,000 passing yards in 34 games and 15,000 in 49 games). Reaching 20,000 yards in 67 games) and fastest to 100 touchdowns in 40 games); Lamar Jackson (no one, not even close to Michael Vick’s record of every Record for most rushing yards in a season and per game); Justin Herbert (most touchdown passes in his first season in the entire NFL or through the air in his first three years) Gained the most yards and ranked second in touchdowns during the same period, second only to Dan Marino); Joe Burrow (historical completion rate 68%), Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Tua Ta Govaloa strongly drops the word “mediocre” from your discourse with facts and we’re just talking about quarterbacks and some stats.

I think your job is to speak on the field and you left a great legacy that made us think you were the GOAT, but you don’t want to further amplify your legacy with words at the expense of what’s going on in today’s NFL. Amplify what you don’t need at the cost of devaluing yourself.

Yours is just nostalgia for what you’ve accomplished today, so it’s better to be more constructive and enjoy what you’ve accomplished, and in this new phase, objectively contrary to what you thought, athletes are getting better and having more Competitive, he plays and enjoys the present and the future, as the 45-year-old NFL fan only believes the best is yet to come.

Thank you so much for your contribution in the field and most importantly for the high standards you set, but as they say, keep quiet and you look better.