Tom Brady can fuck right off. He said it’s the offensive players responsibilities to get away from defensive players, when he got more protection from refs than any qb ive ever seen. If Ben, the mannings, Romo or anyone else got the protection Brady had they may not have gotten beaten up as bad as they had.
The audacity of this motherfucker is astounding.
Defensive players just keep getting bigger and faster, some of the edge rushers in today’s game are just downright scary and if we let these guys tee off on quarterbacks like they did in the “old days” there are going to be a lot of quarterbacks on the shelf and we have recently seen how bad the league is when a lot of top quarterbacks are hurt. And all of these people saying that they’re not allowed to hit in football anymore apparently don’t watch the offensive line
I’m so ready to not hear about Tom Brady anymore until he inevitably gets caught up in some(another?) hedgefund/techbro ponzi scheme.
Brady is the last one who should talk about softer rules ruining the game lol. He begged for calls when he played.
Let’s be honest, Brady’s career would be VERY different without all the roughing the passers, unnecessary roughnesses, and the tuck rule helping him
A lot of the rules and the “soft” stuff stemmed from rules put in place to protect him in particular!!!
“I should have been crippled by 40! Football’s getting soft!” - Tom Brady, probably.
The league is constantly chastised for changing the rules to protect players, and also constantly chastised for not giving a crap about player safety. It’s exhausting really.
It’s the league preaching player safety. With all the CTE cases popping up, the league doesn’t want any class action suits taking a chunk of their profits. So they pretend to care about the player when all they care about is profits.
To be fair, playing football with those cleats really does a number on the grass.
There are a lot of really bad calls and fines this year for very regular looking tackles, so I don’t blame him for lamenting about the current product as a spectator this year.
Did this article really suggest Brady just start a league with rules he prefers if he dislikes the NFL’s? What a ridiculously written article all around. Brady is one year removed from the league and is clearly talking about the steady changes made to the game in the past couple decades. He didn’t mention wanting to make football less safe, which is all the author talks about. He just says he feels players aren’t taught to play in a way to keep themselves safe, rather they rely on questionably enforced rules for safety now.
I was about to post about that comment. What a horrible take from the author.
Brady is just saying the same thing vets told him when he was young. Those vets were just saying what the vets before them told them, and someday, Joe Burrow will say it to the next group of young guys.
Somehow, the past is always way better than the present, according to the people whose glory days were in the past.
What a garbage attempt at “journalism” this piece is. I could eat alphabet soup and shit out a better article.
Football quality will likely continue to drop as youth enrollment continues to decline.
It’s still funny how mad Brady got about jersey numbers that one years