Tom Brady reflected on his first year of broadcasting the NFL for FOX and calling the Super Bowl and like any great quarterback, he took a lot of lessons. Brady knew he wasn’t perfect but plans on keeping his head down and keep working towards perfection. Like he did on the field, Brady knows there’s […]
Tom Brady reflected on his first year of broadcasting the NFL for FOX and calling the Super Bowl and like any great quarterback, he took a lot of lessons. Brady knew he wasn’t perfect but plans on keeping his head down and keep working towards perfection.
Like he did on the field, Brady knows there’s plenty to work on in all facets. Heck, he even described it as his rookie year as a quarterback, making all kinds of adjustments.
“I had a great year. I had the best team, and I had so many teammates that helped me through that first year,” Brady told Joel Klatt. “For me, I was like, really going into the year, and I thought I was prepared, because I had done a lot of research, and I had, you know, a year to kind of prepare, and a lot of practice games, but there was absolutely nothing that I did that could really prepare me for what I was about to endure.
“And there (were) a lot of growing pains through the year for me, just in terms of prep and then obviously going on air. And there’s things you mess up, and there’s things that you make mistakes, and probably a lot like being an NFL quarterback, you know, you think, ‘Hey, I’m prepared, and I got it and I practice.’ And then, you know, you go to a real game of your rookie year, and you’re like, ‘Oh my God. Like, that’s a lot different. It’s a lot faster.’ And then, you know, gets a little better in Week 2, and a little better in Week 3, and then sometimes you regress a little bit, and sometimes you do things you really like that impress you. And then sometimes you’re like, you forgot completely going into Week 9, like, how did I do that? Or what were they talking about?
“And then it’s just, you know, by the time I got to the Super Bowl, I was way more comfortable. And it was just a really rewarding year. And it wasn’t perfect by any means, and I certainly didn’t expect it to be perfect, but just excited about now going into Year 2 with one year under my belt, and again, still having people that are on this journey with me that kind of have brought so much joy to my life in my post career. So it’s been really amazing.”
Tom Brady reflects on first year of broadcasting
Klatt asked Brady about debuting in the profession on the No. 1 team on FOX and having to do a Super Bowl this year. It’s one thing when Brady played in 10 of them as a player, but he had a different role and perspective for this past year’s “Big Game.”
“I think ironically for me and I was very fortunate, again, I played in 10 of them,” Brady said. “So there’s nothing about the feelings and emotions of preparing for a Super Bowl game that I hadn’t been through. So actually, I felt the most prepared I’d been all season. It was the only time that I had two weeks to prepare for a game. So I actually felt like I was ready to roll, and I felt great. And you know, all the things that when I watched the game back again, it wasn’t perfect. I didn’t say, I wish I could have got deeper in some areas or laid out a few times, but I’m like, okay, I really, was really clear with the information.
“A lot of things that were done well, and the game … kind of got out of hand at the end of the first half. But the best part for me is I loved it. I enjoyed it. It was like a kind of the icing on the cake at the end of the year for our whole crew, and those are really fun, Super Bowl week, and the prep was fun, the week was fun and and you know I’m just really excited now to pick up where we started at the end of last year and I think this year is going to be a great year for us well.”
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