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Tom Brady telling us how he really feels.
We're going to see a lot more of
that as 7-time Super Bowl winner transitions from a playing role into the broadcast booth with FOX. Shortly after his retirement (which was somewhat of a
re-retirement),
Brady inked a massive 10-year deal with Fox Sports that will pay the former quarterback around $375 million to call games.
Just another reason why I wish I was Tom Brady.
After his
soft-launch broadcast debut with the UFL, Tom has been stopping by different media outlets to talk about his approach to this new chapter of his life. One of those interviews was with Colin Cowherd of the sports talk show
The Herd, who I have written about often, usually because of
his egregious mistakes.
Brady and Cowherd were discussing what makes a team successful, and Tom chose to plant his flag on how important position coaching can be. In his opinion, first round draft picks are great, but sometimes it really just comes down to how a group of guys are coached.
Brady was specifically talking about offensive line coaches, and Cowherd butted in to give this thought:
"Jimmy Johnson has said for years that there's six to eight good ones on the planet at any one time."
Think about that. Of the 8,116,698,258 people that live on this Earth, there's apparently a widely agreed upon belief that there are only six to eight good offensive line coaches. If that's true, those odds are
crazy.
Tom doubled down (then tripled down, then quadrupled down) by saying that there are a number of other positions that probably only have six or eight people that really stand out:
"Absolutely. There's probably about six to eight good quarterbacks on the planet. And there's probably about six to eight good head coaches, and six to eight good defensive coordinators. So to try and get everything right... which is why the NFL is so competitive in my mind. Because there's so many challenges to keeping people together."
Six to eight good quarterbacks huh? Could the only great players at the QB position (on this planet) really just be Mahomes, Jackson, Burrow, Allen, Herbert, and Stafford? Does Rodgers still count? Are Dak, CJ Stroud, Purdy, Goff, Tua in the conversation, or on their way to being in the conversation, at all? Obviously, Brady would have been in that grouping if he was still playing... and he
could come back at any time.
You can hear more from Tom Brady in the interview below:
https://youtu.be/fwS7nlrUSZA?si=D7pNm9x3ty-X85c3&t=381
