Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady also acknowledged that the football he has left is not much, in an interview with ABC
For 20 seasons, Tom Brady knew only one way –the “Patriot mode“- but it took just an extra season to realize it wasn’t the only way to success.
“When you’re in a place for 20 years, you think it’s the only way,” he said Brady to the “Good Morning America” program of ABC in an interview that aired on Wednesday. “And I think when you go somewhere else, you realize, ‘Wow, here’s a different way people do things.'”
He later added, “I was the new guy for the first time. And it was a really different experience.”
These new experiences resulted in a familiar outcome, with Brady conquering another title of super Bowl –his seventh in total– in his first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He signed with the Bucs as a free agent in the past recess of the season, leaving behind the legacy he built with the New England Patriots
“I think that’s the great thing about American football,” he said Brady in the program. “It’s not really about what you did last year. It’s about what you’re going to do this year. So, for me, it’s what I was aiming for with the Bucs last season. I still feel the same way. “
“It’s an important part of what I understood last year: things will be different. I’m trying to work within what’s currently happening, but I’m still trying to do my best. Everything was really amazing – obviously with the way the season ended. – so it was a great year “.
Also, it was the first season he played for a non-head coach Bill Belichick of New England.
“[Bruce Arians] it’s a great motivator, ”he said Brady of the coach of the Bucs. “He has a great touch for the team … a great pulse for what happens in a locker room, great intuition, great talent appraisal.”
And, at the age of 43, Brady relied on this motivation to keep alive its competitive fire en route to its fifth nomination as Most Valuable Player of the Super Bowl.
“I was always motivated by people saying‘ You can’t do this, ’” he noted Brady. “You know, ‘You’re not good enough, you’re not fast enough, your arm isn’t good enough.’ I’ve had a lot of work over time … and you quickly forget.”
This pile of work is not over, yet. Brady is tied to the Bucs until the 2022 season after agreeing an extension in the current campaign recess that saved the team $ 19 million against the salary cap in 2021. And with that money, the Bucs they kept the band together, with the 22 offensive and defensive starters returning to defend the title.
“I don’t think trying it, for me, is the motivation,” he said Brady in the morning program. “I still want to play. I have a little illness in me that makes me want to throw that damn spiral, you know what I say?
“Once you stop, you can’t do it again. And I have a lot of American football [todavía]. I mean, it’s not much, and I know it. But whatever I have left, I will go out and give everything I have. “