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Tom Brady Explains Why Mahomes Stands Above Everyone Else

Source: Youtube: Joel Klatt Show

There’s other guys that are still developing. And they need to prove it before, in my mind I can say, “Oh yeah, he’s done it”. Well, obviously, he hasn’t done it yet. They’ve all shown flashes of amazing things. They are all great players. All of them can make tremendous plays. At some point, they need to take the next step and take, in my mind, more ownership of what they are doing, in terms of the organizational level, to do more things, to empower more people, to get more people on that train or that bus with you, to head in the direction you want to go. Because, everyone wants to win. But what are the habits, and the daily habits and the actionable things you need to do everyday to put your team in a position to win? So, to me, Patrick Mahomes is the one that does that the most often. Because, who he is, obviously his physical talent, how he understands what he needs to do offensively, and he brings a consistent winning attitude to work every single day. In the biggest moments, you can depend on him the most. Thats clear.

Tom Brady explains why young QBs aren’t developing enough in College Football

Source: Youtube: Joel Klatt Show

Klatt: Now you see all these young quarterbacks come into the NFL. What do they not have and what do you think college coaches should be focusing on in development for college quarterbacks?

Brady: I don’t think there is much development, at this point. There is a lack of development. There is a lack of development at the pro level. In some ways, there is a lack of development. And in some ways, there is overdevelopment. Because they actually are starting at a young age, maybe, there is a physical development, that I see. Thats probably a bit better, based on all the instructional videos that are out there on Youtube, or Instagram. There are more videos on how to throw a football now than I ever could’ve imagined.

Klatt: Or private coaches.

Brady: Exactly. There’s all those. So, they are developed physically. But the mental learning, how to study the game, learning the tactics, learning how to watch film, learning how to deal with the emotions of a competitive program, going up against a school rival, failing in front of 70,000 people. I think we are lacking the mental, emotional development. Physically, they may look developed. Mentally, emotionally, they are very underdeveloped. Sometimes their emotional growth is stunted by the fact that everybody is telling them how great they are all the time. Or that its not their fault all the time. You go lose a game, its not your fault honey, its someone else’s fault. You know the team aspect of sports is always about us. Bo Schembechler at Michigan used to say, The Team. The Team. The Team. And that was a great thing for me to learn. Because, for me, when I got to the pro level, the only way that I could see us winning a championship was, a group of men collectively coming together to try to accomplish this great goal. Its really fricking hard to do that. You need everybody invested in the success of the team. So when you have those lessons, that is a very important structure for you to have. You got to be able to rely on your teammates, you have to be able to rely on your coaches, you have to develop the resilience with them. Because as an athlete, as a broadcaster, whatever job you choose in life, you are going to have to work your way up. And the more you are entitled to something, the less you are actually going to learn about the reasons why you can become successful.