Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady compared playing another season of football to going away on military deployment on Monday.
Brady compared professional football to military deployment, saying on his podcast Let’s Go! that training for another season in the NFL felt like preparation for another service tour.
“I almost look at a football season like I’m going away on deployment for the military,” Brady said. “And it’s like: ‘Man, here I go again.’”
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He said that despite players wanting to spend more time doing something else during the season, “your competitiveness takes over, and as much as you want to have this playful balance with the work balance, you’re going to end up doing exactly what you’ve always done, which is why you are who you are.”
Brady went on a fiery rant after watching several plays from the Buccaneers in their matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. Yelling from the sidelines, he dropped a lot of expletives toward his teammates about their performance.
“You’re so much better than the way you’re f***ing playing,” Brady said to his teammates. “Get your f***ing act together.”
When co-host Jim Gray asked him about the incident, Brady said that it was “not one of my better days.”
“But f-bombs … now it’s kind of for the world to see,” Brady said. “So that’s just the way it is.”
Brady added that he thinks he has a great rapport with his teammates and that they know he wants to motivate them to bring the team to a higher level, and there are “a lot of ways to do it.”
“Sometimes, it’s some positive encouragement, which you do a lot,” he said. “Sometimes, it’s, you know, getting on people and trying to raise the level, the sense of urgency, and raising my voice and trying to create a different vibration for the whole offense. And that’s ultimately what you’re trying to do.”
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The seven-time Super Bowl champion announced his retirement after the 2021 season, but then he reversed his decision a few months later, saying he would return to the field for the 2022 season. He is expected to retire at the end of the 2023 season, hitting Brady’s desired milestone of playing at age 45, NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported on Sept. 11.
There are rumors circulating that Brady and his wife, Gisele Bundchen, have hired divorce lawyers, but neither has confirmed if this is true.
