Tom Brady further explains his ‘mediocre’ comments about today’s NFL

When Tom Brady said there’s “a lot of mediocrity” in today’s NFL, some people were confused and argued about his point.

The Patriots icon further explained what he meant on the latest episode of “Let’s Go!” podcast, focusing more on plays where the quarterback is unable to read the defense and check the line of scrimmage. When Brady was discussing how exciting the Eagles’ overtime win over the Bills was, Jim Gray (one of Brady’s co-hosts) asked him why we haven’t seen anything as intense or exciting as that game , looking back on Brady’s “mediocre” comments.

“I think the point is, you want to see the sport continue to grow and develop,” Brady said. “That means better coaching, better quarterback play and better defensive plays. “I think a big difference is the lack of time the coaches have with the players, the lack of time the coaches have in the building together. Time, people often don’t understand the full picture. “

As Brady said, players at most positions only need to know how to do a few things well, explaining that quarterbacks “need to know what everyone is doing.” But he thinks quarterbacks around the league don’t necessarily know as much as they should know right now and puts some of the blame on coaches as they try to “control the game from the sidelines.”

“When you’re trying to control the game from the sideline, you don’t have the answers to everything that happens on the field,” Brady said. “Ultimately, as a quarterback, I have everything that we need to make great plays. … I have the ability to change the play and make us make plays that I think are going to be more successful.

“I just don’t see that as much in the NFL,” Brady added. “People spend a lot less time on this. That’s the reality. When I started, we spent a lot of time on this. Over the years, I’ve developed a lot of these tools that allow us to perform at our best .”

Brady said his ability to contain poor play at the line of scrimmage helped him win a Super Bowl and made other quarterbacks like Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and Philip Rivers great. Right now, he believes only Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford, and maybe a few other quarterbacks have the ability to check plays at the line of scrimmage.

Brady blamed the lack of quarterbacks in today’s league who can check plays in sideline scrimmages to the constant pressure in the league, saying, “To get things done, people are actually trying to get things right.” That. Even more wrong. He believes it particularly affected young quarterbacks, recalling that being able to spend time with the Patriots coaching staff in the offseason helped him emerge from one game into his third career start defeated the Chargers in overtime.

“We’re talking about how they’re going to blitz us the most,” Brady said. “We said, ‘Well, if they max out the blitz on us and put us in that situation, we’re going to have to check out the seven-man protection and then let the receivers shoot down the field.’ (That’s what they said) Give Two Senior quarterback!

“I was in the system my first year. Bill Belichick and Charlie Weis taught me. We had quarterback school and offseason programs. After playing 60 minutes, we went into overtime and I Realizing they call it an all-out blitz. I said, “(expletive) this, I’m changing it.” “I changed protection and I threw a deep ball to David Patten, it went through interference and we got a 50-yard gain. “We won the game on a field goal in overtime. “

Brady hasn’t seen quarterbacks do the same thing at the line of scrimmage throughout his career, but believes too many quarterbacks and teams “react” after the snap and try to fix the problem .

“The more decisive you are as a quarterback, the better results you’re going to get, the better your process is going to be,” Brady said. “As a quarterback, you want to be really decisive. You want to be really sure of what you’re doing. But you need to be sure of the game plan, the protections, who’s responsible for who on the blitz and where all the receivers are going to go. All of that. It takes time. We have to give these people some time to develop.

“The pro game reflects the nature of the college game, not the college game reflects the nature of the pro game,” Brady added. “We ask pros to play college football. That’s the biggest difference I see. Checkers is more important than chess. I try to play chess. “I want to always be three steps ahead of you. “

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