Invoice Belichick coached Tom Brady with the New England Patriots from 2000 via the 2019 NFL season and, thus, is aware of loads about the kind of competitor Brady was all through hellos legendary profession.
Throughout a Monday look on “The Pat McAfee Present,” Belichick addressed how signal-caller Baker Mayfield stated in September that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had been “fairly wired” and “weren’t having as a lot enjoyable” when Brady was the crew’s QB1 from 2020 via the 2022 marketing campaign.
“Let me inform you one thing,” Belichick defined, as shared by Gio Rivera of NESN. “Successful six Tremendous Bowl championships was enjoyable. Going to 9 Tremendous Bowls was enjoyable. Successful these AFC Championship video games, that was enjoyable. The enjoyable was actually the successful.”
Belichick supplied his feedback roughly 24 hours after Brady said on Sunday whereas calling Tampa Bay’s 33-16 win over the Philadelphia Eagles for Fox that he “thought hectic was not having Tremendous Bowl rings” and that he wasn’t working a “daycare” with the Buccaneers. Linebacker Lavonte David, who performed alongside Brady with Tampa Bay, later noted that such a response was “typical Tom.” On the similar time, Mayfield insisted on Sunday his unique remarks “acquired taken out of context.”
Unsurprisingly, Belichick sided with the long run Corridor of Famer, who helped him earn six championship rings whereas with the Patriots.
“Look,” Belichick stated through the “McAfee Present” phase, “Tom may have enjoyable and he may pull pranks and make enjoyable of individuals and be made enjoyable of and all that, however when it was time for enterprise, he was all enterprise. Whether or not that was within the assembly room or walkthrough on the sector, there was nothing extra vital to him than the whole lot being achieved proper — not simply his job however the gamers round him. The correct timing, the correct alignments, and so forth, and anyone who performed with Tom would assist that.”
Outsiders could by no means know what Mayfield heard about Brady’s Tampa Bay tenure. Logic means that at the very least some within the locker room weren’t thrilled that Brady’s public divorce seemingly impacted the Buccaneers all through his remaining season as an lively participant.
Nonetheless, Mayfield will possible preserve Brady’s identify out of his mouth for a while.
