before we run out of time because I love talking about
Tom Brady,
what should Brady be concerned about?
Well, it's funny, when we were talking about over reactions
before a season, I thought you were going to hit me with that,
that aren't you? The guy who said, Tom, Brady won't make
the playoffs this year,
so we did yet. Yes. That would be an overreaction on my part
but it's just a way to kind of Stir It Up before the season
starts. Look Tom. Brady fascinates me because
I don't know that I know of any player outside of Michael
Jordan, who is ever
used any And
I'm a slide or even made up his own slights against him
as motivation. I remember when they were playing the Eagles in
the Super Bowl,
Down in Jacksonville and
Rodney. Harrison was telling me the story one time that they're
on the bus and look, they've already won what I think at
that point two championships. Can't remember. We went to that
that.
Yeah. Right. And Ronnie tells me Tom turns to him and says
man, can you believe you know?
I'm I'm I was 199 pick and like six round pick and
you were like a fourth or fifth and like nobody really believes
in us and this had me out and I'm like
He's won two championships, he's a Super Bowl MVP and he
still stuck on this where he was drafted, you know? And I'm
not saying that in any way to sort of
be condescending towards Tom Brady, or like, I'm making fun
of anything.
What I have learned over time is that athletes are wired
differently and I'll tell you a story one time. You'll
appreciate about the Patriots. So they play, they play, Peyton
Manning one time in the playoffs and fox in Foxboro.
And after the game, the Patriots win the game. And
I remember going in the locker room and a player says to me
and he's like, intense. He's like, man, it's like everybody
they're gonna win. It's like, man, they, it's like they spit
in our face.
and I remember after the game, I wrote a column and I said,
apparently, this player is never had anyone spit in
the space or you wouldn't have said that
and player got mad at me for writing that and what it did it
kind of brought me back to say
and dudes are just wired differently and you got to be
willing to accept that as an outsider about what makes them
tick or what makes them go or what makes them great because
Me as an outsider. I'm never going to understand what that
is, you know, because I'm not in their cleats, I haven't gone
through it, but Tom now this week. What's he talking about?
Man, I'm telling my offensive line and look what they're
saying about you.
They're killing how bad you're going to be
you know it's like and he's just beating that into. I'm
trying to instill that same sort of motivation
and then I kind of got a kick out of where he said I'm, you
know, I'm self-motivated and one not so, but I don't mind
and - to help get me going there. Dude, you're still
hanging on to where you were drafted, 23 years later. So
gotta
you have unlike any other
production company
any other production companies that like 199 something.
So he's always, he's working at into like
his, his own story. His part of his narrative is
being number 199. I can understand it.
But, you know what? It, it strikes me that
Tom Brady using that technique with the
Tampa Bay, lineman
tells Me that he actually thinks that they're good
because I've seen Tom Brady here.
Where if he doesn't think you're good, he's going to say,
to stuff to you. That the media is saying about you, but he's
not doing it to motivate you, he's complaining, right?
I saw him here, complain about his wide receivers and in
retrospect rightfully so one of the guys he complained about
was gonna kill Harry
who was you know traded like you know bust first round pick
he complained about Joey. I'm Joey Galloway toward the end of
Joey Galloway as career as a matter of fact Tom Brady
send Joey Galloway to PN
he started this media career,
so afraid he's complaining about you. He doesn't believe
in you.
But if he's running out, what people are saying about you,
he thinks you're pretty good.