In Middle Of Antonio Brown Madness, Tom Brady Offers Reminder Of What Makes Him GOAT

The New England Patriots are caught in the middle of a big scandal thanks to Antonio Brown and his rape accusations. Well, Tom Brady doesn’t have time for all the drama. The season has to go on, and Brady likes to talk about the team and their success in the past couple decades.

Levan Reid wanted to know if Brady feels a kinsnip with the new wide receiver, noting that they Brown is a sixth-round pick, too. Brady didn’t talk specifically about his new teammate, and gave his opinion on lower-round picks and undrafted players.

“Yeah, I think you look at a guy like Julian [Edelman], too. We’ve got a lot of undrafted players, late-round picks,” Brady said. “I think what they can’t evaluate at the combine are probably things that might help you prolong your career. You know, you learn different skill-sets when you’re not the top pick. So, a lot of times, I think it’s … if you can stick with it and you can keep finding a way, the things that make you successful as a player, to me, are continuing to evolve your game, continue to work at your skills, the things you need to do, continuous improvement, discipline, hard work. … I think the things that are sustainable are hard work, discipline, commitment. And I’d say we’ve had a lot of players over the years that have fit that mold.”

Brady has been really successful, and he doesn’t even think of stopping now. He is a six-time Super Bowl champion after all.

“Sometimes, I think the guys who are later picks develop those traits and then you realize, ‘Man, those really paid off for me, let me keep doing them.’” Brady added. “I think sometimes it’s a disadvantage when you’re a high pick. Everyone tells you how great you are all the time, you get more opportunity than everybody else.”

Interestingly, TB12 doesn’t like being called the GOAT.

“I don’t even like that! I don’t like it. It makes me cringe. It makes me cringe. It makes me cringe,” he said in a post-Super Bowl Disney World interview. “I guess I take compliments worse than I take [insults]. I wish you would say, ‘You’re trash, you’re too old, you’re too slow, you can’t get it done no more.’ And I would say, ‘Thank you very much, I’m gonna go prove you wrong.’”