Tom Brady says today’s players are soft and different from his era

I guess you believe Tom Brady when he says he’s retired now, don’t you? I mean, now that the sport has become a haven for weak, ignorant, fearful candy asses, why would one of the last great defenders of the good old days deign to try again? Of course, the good old days are 2022.

In a chat with his erstwhile spokesman Stephen A. Smith, Brady lashed out at players, coaches, programs, owners (of which he was one), and the general lack of violent psychopaths, autocratic strictures, and Carefree rich man. Who made this game better when I played it 11 months ago.

“I don’t think coaching is as good as it used to be,” Brady tells Smith in a slightly grainy video that makes us wonder if it was filmed in the low-definition glory of the 1950s. “I don’t think the development of young players is as good as it used to be. I don’t think the schemes are as good as they used to be. Those rules allow a lot of bad habits to seep into the performance of the game right now. So I just think I don’t think the product is as good as it used to be.”

Now let’s extrapolate a little bit here. Does he long for the fact that his high school coach, Tom MacKenzie, once said he thought Brady was “slow as molasses” and wrapped in “baby fat?” Is this an endearingly passionate ode to former Michigan State coach Lloyd Carr? Is he a lefty admission that Bill Belichick isn’t a platinum-plated jerk after all? Or is he saying that Belichick’s bastard child is actually educational, even therapeutic? I think we know the answer – there’s going to be a purposely photogenic hug between the two in the near future. Or more likely, they just waved to each other from across the room, because hugging is kind, not to mention friendly.

Brady then calls for more injuries, or at least more players capable of inflicting them, in order to instill greater survival instincts in their targets, changing the game from shameless to less suicidal to safer but still insane Pull back on the road. When concussions were currency.

“I look at a lot of players like Ray Lewis, Rodney Harrison and Ronnie Lott, and players who impact the game in some way – every hit they take is going to be a penalty, Brady said with mild disdain. “You hear coaches complaining about their own players being tackled but not necessarily – why don’t they talk to their players about how to protect themselves? We used to work on the basics of these things. Now they’ve been trying to be policed .”

Ah yes, power through damage. It’s a real shame that Brady wore an off-brand San Francisco Giants hat during the interview to hide his Dick Butkus crew cut. But he once again paid tribute to his best friend Belichick for not coddling his employees by teaching them the virtues of “OYOOT: On.” your. my own. go out. There.

But he’s also lashing out at the new, supposedly weaker culture that has made young people less arrogant about their brains, leading us to be mentored by even shodder money-grubbing college scum who take advantage of The wings of the university jump from one program to another. Novel offensive concepts were installed for players who would have transferred at the end of the year anyway.

“I actually think college players were better prepared when I came out than they are now,” he said. “Just because so many coaches are changing programs, I would say there aren’t even a lot of college programs anymore. There are a lot of college teams, but there are no programs to develop players. So when they get to the NFL, they may have the athletic ability, but They don’t have a lot of skills that they need to be pros. When I played at Michigan, I basically played in a college program that was very similar to a pro environment. When I see these different players coming in, they don’t There’s not as much preparation as there used to be, and I think the game has shown that over the last 12 to 13 years. “I think things have gone down a little bit. “

‘Things have slipped’: Passive-aggressive statement ‘I’m not playing in the good old days, I’m the good old days.’ Brady is turning into Deacon Jones, the Rams’ veteran defensive lineman Player, he can always be relied upon to tear apart those who come after him, as he is primarily built with glue and Skittles.

But he’s also taking aim at newfangled coaches who are hired primarily to inspire donors, ticket buyers and television executives as college football, a business that has been around for decades, has now become an industry and may be a deterrent to colleges. The last thing to get involved with. Converted into an Amazon warehouse. He is rejecting the Deion Sanders model at the same time that Deion Sanders is rejecting the Deion Sanders model, but perhaps that’s because Deion describes Mount Rushmore as “California’s Four Little brain”.

But we covered the line that Brady typed and then flipped his hand: “Now they keep trying to get regulated.”

By whom? Owners hate the idea of ​​paying players to sit idle while they can play and suffer new injuries. Who is the owner now? Yes. You guessed it. It was none other than Monopoly model TEP Brady himself, a member of the victimized wealthy class that just spawned Jim Irsay, who said he was arrested for drunk driving in 2014 because “I was biased against myself because I was a Rich white billionaire. If I were just a guy on the block, they wouldn’t pull me in, of course not.”

Brady is now the smartest guy on the Las Vegas Raiders, which means he can get on the NFL’s competitive committee (for the right deal, of course) and make the same move (over a longer period of time) He’d like to see changes in player college, restrictions on transfers and NIL rules, fewer safeties at the pro level, and more Belichicks. Definitely more Belichick.