The Magic Of Tom Brady
March 29th, 2021
Peek inside meetings.
A lot has happened in a year for all of us.
Forget the COVID and vaccines and stuff like that for a second. Joe went from being suspicious of the Bucs signing and asking a 43 year old quarterback to pull off what has never been pulled off to less than a year later being a total Kool-Aid chugger over the same quarterback.
That would be park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking, tequila-shooting, waffle-grilling, trophy-throwing, Bucs-Super-Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady.
No 43 year old in the NFL’s 101-year history had ever pulled off what Brady did. Yeah, it’s Tom Brady. But Joe was not one to bank on something happening for the first time since football was invented.
Further, Joe has heard stories second- and third-hand of Brady and what he did behind the scenes and in meetings to single-handedly whip a losing franchise into a Super Bowl winner.
But now we have first-hand knowledge, though the intel comes from when Brady was with the Belicheats.
Hot-dog-eating-contest-protesting, mock-draft-scowling, L.L. Bean-wearing, Second Amendment abolitionist, Mike-Florio-arguing, parrot-insensitive, chewing-with-his-mouth-open, soup-gulping, California-train-romancing, anti-football proliferation, outhouse-admiring, airline-napping, steerage-flying, Yogi Berra-worshiping, urinal-picture-taking, video-game-playing, Taylor-Swift-listening, pickpocket-thwarting, Bucs-uniform-frowning, Allie-LaForce-smitten, Big-Ten-Network-hating, pedestrian-bumping, olive oil-lapping, popcorn-munching, coffee-slurping, fried-chicken-eating, oatmeal-loving, circle-jerking, craft-beer-chugging, cricket-watching, scone-loathing, college football-naïve, baseball-box-score-reading, NPR-honk, filthy-hotel-staying, fight-instigating, barista-training, Budweiser-tolerant, baseball-scorecard-keeping, pasta-feasting, vomit-dodging scrooge, Kay-Adams-following, Coors-Light-souring social activist and NFL insider Peter King of NBC Sports has a small feature on Jags coach Urban Meyer today.
Meyer, dating back to his Gators days, became close to Bill Belicheat. So much so that Belicheat let Meyer sit in on offensive meetings during minicamp.
The meetings were run by Belicheats offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, right? Nope. They were run by Brady.
“I was blown away at Tom Brady and the way he performed at practice,” Meyer began. “And the way I went into the offensive meetings with Josh McDaniels and Tom Brady, and Tom Brady’s actually the one who had the clicker in his hand. It was amazing. He was in there running the film. He had the offensive line sitting there, running backs, receivers, and Tom Brady was running the clicker and watching practice film, dissecting the plays with the offense. Think about that for a minute. You can say he throws a great pass. But people that really understand the game—there’s much more than that that makes him the best of all time.”
That sort of sounds like a story Joe heard of Brady this past year. Joe cannot confirm how accurate this is, but here you go:
Brady very early in training camp sat in on an offensive line meeting and spoke, stressing they must be able to block rushers inside. If they didn’t, the offense would implode and the team would lose. They must block their inside rushers. Failure was not an option. If, Brady said, a pass rusher gets loose outside, then he and the offense would survive. It’s not ideal, but it is much better than if rushers got through inside.
Brady told the linemen if they are struggling with an outside rush, all he needs is 2.3 seconds to throw a pass.
(Like Brady thinks the linemen have a stopwatch out on the field. But that’s how detailed and precise Brady is.)
So what do we know about Brady? He struggles with a pass rush up the middle. What do we also know about Brady? He has a damn quick release. So everything adds up.
There is not a shred of doubt in Joe’s mind that the most important transition this franchise has made since trading for Chucky was signing old man Brady.
March 29th, 2021 at 5:38 am
“Like Brady thinks the linemen have a stopwatch out on the field. But that’s how detailed and precise Brady is”….
Have you ever heard of “one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi”?……🤣🤣🤣🤣
March 29th, 2021 at 5:58 am
@Iamabuc
It takes the average person 1.13 seconds to count each 1 Mississippi.
So in this instance, If Bucs lineman are getting to the 3rd Mississippi, they are too long!
March 29th, 2021 at 6:54 am
Obviously all pocket passers have trouble with an inside rush. It’s a pocket with a hole in it if someone pokes through the middle. It does go to show who leads the band. We saw that day one on a high school field Tom snapping the ball to Jensen showing him how he wants it down.
March 29th, 2021 at 7:03 am
Interesting point about the rush; I think that’s the same reason why the saints always paid guards top $.
Also illustrates why VV and Suh are so valuable. When Shaq and JPP get home on the edge (like they do better than most), qbs can’t step up into VV and Suh’s arms. In the absence of one or both, those sacks became pressures instead.
March 29th, 2021 at 7:05 am
Also, shoutout to all the readers who hate the multi-name monikers in Joes articles. Joe gave you not one, but two full paragraphs of it in this one! Enjoy 😂
March 29th, 2021 at 7:30 am
I’ll take Brady’s elite decision making elite release elite accuracy and elite pocket awareness over any of y’all running QBs!!!!! Get a clue people playing QB is not about how fast you run or how agile you are. Dude came in and changed the whole dynamics of this team with the little things!!!
March 29th, 2021 at 7:43 am
If the middle guys get thru, he can’t step up and buy that last 1-2 seconds
March 29th, 2021 at 8:05 am
Sounds to me like we should be drafting some stud interior O-linemen for depth. I know Brady won’t be here forever, but creating a clean pocket should benefit all QBs, even scrambling ones.
March 29th, 2021 at 8:06 am
1 Wisconsin…2 Wisconsin…3 Wisconsin…
March 29th, 2021 at 8:16 am
Brady doesn’t stand there and take sack….he will dump the ball…..and he also doesn’t fumble…..last year I believe he was credited with only one fumble and that was on a handoff…..
March 29th, 2021 at 8:19 am
i bet bill wishes brady sat in on the draft and FA meetings too!!!!
GO BUCS!!!!
March 29th, 2021 at 8:21 am
Yeah Leighroy. What a joke oh I ment joy. I think they do it to “fluff” out their short posts to look like they are full of more actual content not 2nd grade playground name calling. But it is the “Joe’s blog and they will write what about and how they like”. I skip every single Peter King post. I have zero patients to try and scroll past all this “.
Hot-dog-eating-contest-protesting, mock-draft-scowling, L.L. Bean-wearing, Second Amendment abolitionist, Mike-Florio-arguing, parrot-insensitive, chewing-with-his-mouth-open, soup-gulping, California-train-romancing, anti-football proliferation, outhouse-admiring, airline-napping, steerage-flying, Yogi Berra-worshiping, urinal-picture-taking, video-game-playing, Taylor-Swift-listening, pickpocket-thwarting, Bucs-uniform-frowning, Allie-LaForce-smitten, Big-Ten-Network-hating, pedestrian-bumping, olive oil-lapping, popcorn-munching, coffee-slurping, fried-chicken-eating, oatmeal-loving, circle-jerking, craft-beer-chugging, cricket-watching, scone-loathing, college football-naïve, baseball-box-score-reading, NPR-honk, filthy-hotel-staying, fight-instigating, barista-training, Budweiser-tolerant, baseball-scorecard-keeping, pasta-feasting, vomit-dodging scrooge, Kay-Adams-following, Coors-Light-souring social activist ” on every Peter King post. I used to actually enjoy some of the King posts, until this.
“Hot-dog-eating-contest-protesting, mock-draft-scowling, L.L. Bean-wearing, Second Amendment abolitionist, Mike-Florio-arguing, parrot-insensitive, chewing-with-his-mouth-open, soup-gulping, California-train-romancing, anti-football proliferation, outhouse-admiring, airline-napping, steerage-flying, Yogi Berra-worshiping, urinal-picture-taking, video-game-playing, Taylor-Swift-listening, pickpocket-thwarting, Bucs-uniform-frowning, Allie-LaForce-smitten, Big-Ten-Network-hating, pedestrian-bumping, olive oil-lapping, popcorn-munching, coffee-slurping, fried-chicken-eating, oatmeal-loving, circle-jerking, craft-beer-chugging, cricket-watching, scone-loathing, college football-naïve, baseball-box-score-reading, NPR-honk, filthy-hotel-staying, fight-instigating, barista-training, Budweiser-tolerant, baseball-scorecard-keeping, pasta-feasting, vomit-dodging scrooge, Kay-Adams-following, Coors-Light-souring social activist ” showed up again and again and again… now it is not just Peter King now the Joe’s in their esteemed professionalism is doing the same “Fluff” on the Greatest Of All Time QB who is our QB. I will more than likely pass right by any of those posts as well. It is my time after all. And I do not need to continually be wasted of my precious time trying g to read past this” .
Hot-dog-eating-contest-protesting, mock-draft-scowling, L.L. Bean-wearing, Second Amendment abolitionist, Mike-Florio-arguing, parrot-insensitive, chewing-with-his-mouth-open, soup-gulping, California-train-romancing, anti-football proliferation, outhouse-admiring, airline-napping, steerage-flying, Yogi Berra-worshiping, urinal-picture-taking, video-game-playing, Taylor-Swift-listening, pickpocket-thwarting, Bucs-uniform-frowning, Allie-LaForce-smitten, Big-Ten-Network-hating, pedestrian-bumping, olive oil-lapping, popcorn-munching, coffee-slurping, fried-chicken-eating, oatmeal-loving, circle-jerking, craft-beer-chugging, cricket-watching, scone-loathing, college football-naïve, baseball-box-score-reading, NPR-honk, filthy-hotel-staying, fight-instigating, barista-training, Budweiser-tolerant, baseball-scorecard-keeping, pasta-feasting, vomit-dodging scrooge, Kay-Adams-following, Coors-Light-souring social activist” on every article.
March 29th, 2021 at 8:27 am
BELICHICK does a great job of making players appear…broken, doesn’t he? And they made it all (ie Super Bowls) seem as though…anyone could have been the QB for those winning NEP teams- even you or me! Meanwhile Tom Terrific saves them around $180M (one Boston Globe estimate), making it possible to sign many other s and waste a lof of draft picks in the process. Remember that year an elite WR (Randy Moss) came to NE town…17-0. And that Super Bowl against Atlanta, where TB12 went all TB12…Belichick didn’t even want him on the team back then…but he’ll take that one…then suppress the QB extraordinaire after that. Is that any way to treat our guy? I hope the Bucs have that NEP game circled in red and kick their bloody arse!
March 29th, 2021 at 8:28 am
Rusty…at some point, we might have one article taking up the entire first page with the “gloss”. I don’t quite get more than a few monikers, but each to their own… scan down…scan down….
March 29th, 2021 at 8:29 am
Why misrepresent Joe? Joe was ecstatic when Brady arrived. Unsure he had enough — and enough time — to take the Bucs all the way? Sure.
March 29th, 2021 at 9:51 am
It’s in the details that defines TB’s greatness. None one does it like TB. His high expectations permeates to everyone. Know your job and do it. If ever there is a team that’s Super Bowl ready – it’s the Bucs. They are playing as a team and focused to win another Super Bowl.
March 29th, 2021 at 10:43 am
The best part about Joe’s monikers is the visceral comments of all you moniker-hating, scan-down-claiming-but-secretly-knowing-you-read-every-word, TB12-worshiping, fake-car-accident-ignoring Zombies who after vehemently protesting Joe’s brazen audacity to desecrate your lauded goat, not only betray your ill-gotten haughty and highfalutin sensibilities by reluctantly clicking to read any and all subsequent articles by Joe, but give proof of the same, with your frustration-laden rants! Joe…you are THE MAN!!!!
March 29th, 2021 at 12:01 pm
RR. It’s Joe’s site. Deal with it.
March 29th, 2021 at 12:44 pm
I don’t mind the names. Think it’s funny others do. Just skip over it! If you come here often enough, you should have learned how by now.
March 30th, 2021 at 4:58 am
In the NFL he is the GOAT……. In Tampa he is the BOAT!!!! Best Of All Time….. Arrrrrrrr
LETs ROLL