“There were 325 quarterbacks in front of him but he’s the hardest working one”: Tom Brady’s father explains why the quarterback still uses his draft night memory as motivation
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Tom Brady may be insane, yes, you read that right. The quarterback has had a 22-year professional career in the NFL, he has accomplished a lot in that timeframe, 7 Super Bowls, 3 regular-season MVP awards, 2 NFL Offensive Player of the Year awards, and broken numerous other records. Yet he still walks around like he has a chip on his shoulder, he still has something to prove at 45 years of age, deep-down there is one constant driving force that has always been there in his 22-year-long NFL career.
Tom Brady was no first pick, he was not even a second-round pick, he was the 199th overall pick in the 2000 NFL Draft. Little did the league know this skinny many with an average body would end up becoming the greatest ever to throw the football. If you split Brady’s career into two halves, you’d have two separate hall of fame careers. Tom’s father gives us an insight into his underdog mentality and how he carries a grudge against the teams that overlooked him in the draft to date.
“He doesn’t have the measurable”: Tom Brady’s father on the quarterback being overlooked as he lacked athleticism
It’s Father’s Day and it is only natural that we hear the GOATs father talk about his son and how he thinks. Tom Brady Sr. spoke to KTVU’s Jason Appelbaum and he was asked how Brady developed this mentality of a fighter as he has been overlooked at every juncture in his football career, be it in high school or college, and finally in the NFL.
“He doesn’t have the measurables necessarily, when he ran at the combine, there had been something like 325 quarterbacks that had run the 40-yard dash, and when he ran the 40-yard dash, he was not the fastest guy but I’ll tell you what. There were 325 quarterbacks in front of him but he has no doubt that he is the hardest working of the 325 to work on his deficiencies, to make them better, as well as to work on his positives to date,” Brady Sr. explains the reason Tom has a grudge and a need to prove that he is not done.
The quarterback does go into a scary and psychotic place when he is competing, though this is not a bad thing, it definitely does tell you a lot about him. He may have been through a lot and fighting his way, being overlooked at every step, he has learned to not be satisfied no matter how much he has accomplished and that is what makes him the best ever to do it
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