For 20 seasons, Tom Brady knew only one way – the “Patriot Way” – but it only took one extra season to realize that it was not the only way to achieve success.
“If you’re in one place for 20 years, you think that’s the only way,” Brady told ABC’s Good Morning America in an interview aired Wednesday. “And I think when you go to another place, you realize, ‘Wow. There’s a different way people do things.’
He later added: “I was the new guy for the first time, you know. And it was a very different experience.”
These new experiences have resulted in a well-known result, as Brady won another Super Bowl championship in his first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – his seventh overall. He signed with the Bucs last season as a free agent and left behind the legacy he built with the New England Patriots.
“I think it’s a big part of football,” Brady told GMA. “It’s not really about what you did last year. It’s kind of, what you’re going to do this year. So that was for me what I was going to do for the Bucs last year. I still feel that way.”
“That’s a big part of what I understood last year: things are going to be different. I’m trying to work within what’s happening right now, but I’m still trying to do the best I could. the season ended – so it was a wonderful year. ‘
It was also the first season he played for a head coach other than Bill Belichick, New England.
“[Bruce Arians] Brady said about the Bucs’ coach. “He has a good feeling for the team … a good pulse for what’s going on in a locker room, a good intuition, a good evaluation of talent.”
And at age 43, Brady relies on motivation to keep his competitive fire going while winning his fifth Super Bowl MVP award.
“I was always motivated by people saying, ‘You can’t do this,'” Brady said. “You know, ‘you’re not good enough, you’re not fast enough, not big enough, not good enough. ‘I had a job over a period of time and … quickly you forget. ‘
The work is not finished. Brady was linked by the Bucs through the 2022 season after agreeing to extend this off-season, saving $ 20 million against the 2021 salary cap. And with the money, the Bucs kept the band together, with all 22 starters in attack and the defense returned to the team to defend its title.
“I do not think that is the motivation for me to prove it,” Brady told GMA. “I still want to play. I had like a little disease in me that just wanted to throw a freckle spiral, you know what I mean?
‘Once you stop, you can’ t go back to doing it. I still got football [left in me]. I mean, not much – and I know it. But what I have left, I’m going to give everything I get. ‘