Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio believes Tom Brady is a hypocrite for his comments on pro golfer Scottie Scheffler.
Tom Brady couldn’t find a work-life balance during his final few NFL seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, famously getting divorced from Gisele Bündchen in 2022 after she complained he wasn’t around his family enough.
That’s what makes Brady’s comments on pro golfer Scottie Scheffler’s work-life balance hypocritical, says Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio.
Florio believes Brady prioritized his career over anything else, obsessing over expanding his legacy over being there for his wife and kids.
“Brady’s work-life balance consisted of throwing out the scale and maniacally pursuing what was always his favorite Super Bowl ring: The next one,” Florio wrote.
“And that’s fine. That’s the choice he made. But he shouldn’t pretend two seasons after calling it quits that he was trying to find a sweet spot between work and family. It was work and more work. And more work.
“And more work. Whatever the consequences may be.”
Brady had commented on Scheffler’s desire to be a more successful husband and father than golfer.
“Scottie said he’d rather be a better father and husband than a good golfer. And my question is: why are those mutually exclusive? Sure, they’re different blocks on the pyramid, but they’re part of the same pyramid,” Brady said via his website’s newsletter. “They’re connected!”
After winning Super Bowl LV in 2021, Brady could’ve ended his career on the ultimate high note. Following an ugly split with Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots, Brady went to Tampa during the COVID-19 pandemic and turned a franchise that went 12 seasons without a postseason appearance into the champs. To boot, he even beat Patrick Mahomes, a quarterback many pegged to replace Brady as the NFL’s QB1, despite being 18 years his elder. Instead, he stayed too long, eventually having his first losing season in 2022.
There are almost no fewer qualified to make such a statement to Scheffler.
Whoever put him up to this knows how to market. Then again, if this was Brady’s doing and it wasn’t rage-bait, the 48-year-old may just be getting his guilty thoughts off his chest.
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