Tom Brady Gives Uninspiring Assessment Of Pats’ Young Receivers

You can’t gain Tom Brady’s trust overnight, especially not if you are one of the young receivers on the team. What does the GOAT say about his young teammates?

Brady talked to media members prior to the game against Washington.

“Those guys are trying,” he said of the young receivers. “They’re young. I was young; I was trying once, too. I just didn’t have to play my first year, so it’s a little different.”

Brady enters his 20^th season in the league, and his duties don’t involve coaching young receivers.

“I think one thing we talk about here is just doing our jobs,” he said. “I mean, I can do what I can do. Every player can do what they can do. I can’t do anything for anyone else; they can’t do anything for me. So a lot of it’s just trust and trying to communicate trust and communication. I’ve always said the best teammates are the ones that I have to think about the least, because I don’t want to spend my mental energy on things that aren’t really my job. … I think what makes a good team is just people doing their job, doing it the best way they can, and that’s what my responsibility is.”

In his weekly appearance on WEEI’s “Greg Hill Show,” Brady said he doesn’t really trust young pass-catchers.

“We’ve had a lot of young players over the years try to come into our offense,” he said on WEEI. “It’s a challenging position, because there’s a lot that’s put on receivers. Young players, it’s hard to count on (them). There’s not a lot of young players who have had major contributions in our offense. That’s just the reality of that position. We have, I think, a high level of communication, a high level of detail, and I think sometimes it takes guys a few years to understand that. So you just put the process in place. Our guys are well-coached. They’ve got guys giving them great instruction. My role is to play quarterback, and the coaches do a great job preparing our guys.”

Will this change after Sunday?