Kids these days… In Tom Brady’s day, NFL players were just built different. At least that’s how he remembers it.
Brady is not happy that so many NFL players don’t fully participate in preseason games. We know this because this past weekend, he expressed his disappointment with today’s NFL players by leaving a comment on a social media video showing him and Randy Moss playing in a 2010 Patriots preseason game with 5:11 remaining in the third quarter.
“Does that say 3rd quarter with 5 mins left?” someone asked in the comments of the post.
Tom Brady not only saw the video; he saw the question, but he also responded in an Instagram story, writing, “Preseason… Regular season… I never wanted to be taken off the field. Practice makes perfect… Too many people looking for easy ways out these days. When you’re a football player, and it’s football season, your job is to play football.”
He’s not kidding. In the game he commented on, he was not only playing in the third quarter, but Tom Brady also led a 10-play, 98-yard touchdown drive in the fourth quarter of the contest.
Perhaps if Fernando Mendoza ever ends up winning the starting quarterback job in Las Vegas, he will play more preseason snaps than the 20 NFL starting quarterbacks who didn’t play at all during the first full week of the NFL preseason. (For the record, current Raiders starting quarterback Kirk Cousins, 37, only took 10 snaps during the first week of preseason, while rookie Mendoza was in the game for more than 30.)