Tom Brady Posts Hype Message On Instagram To Kick Off Cutdown Day

Tom Brady is pretty positive about his 20^th NFL season, and he is really excited about it. The Patriots quarterback decided to share a message of inspiration Saturday morning right before cutdown day.

NFL teams will have to shrink their rosters before the start of the new season. TB12 has never been cut, but he sends his thoughts to all those who might experience that.

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records,” he wrote.

Brady knows what he signed up for.

“Trying to get ready individually and collectively, everyone has different things they have to do,” Brady said Thursday after the last practice of the team’s mandatory minicamp at Gillette Stadium. “I think our coaches do a great job of preparing our guys. Individually, guys are coming out here trying to get better, I’m trying to do the same thing, and when we come together like this, it gives us a chance to see where we’re all at.”

And he really hopes to play until he is 45.

“I hope I can play that long,” Brady said. “You have to set goals for yourself, and you have short term and long term, and the reality is that this year is the most important one, and that’s the one that I’m focused on. I hope there’s a lot of football beyond this, but it’s a contact sport. I’ve said that for a long time, too. I don’t think you can take those things for granted.”

The quarterback said he attempted to trademark the phrase so others could not use the nickname Tom Terrific in association with him. But, his attempt was a complete failure.

“It’s unfortunate,” he said. “I was actually trying to do something because I didn’t like the nickname, and I wanted to make sure no one used it, because some people wanted to use it. Then it got spun around to something different than what it was. Good lesson learned, and I’ll try to do things a little different in the future.”