Every quarterback is chasing Tom Brady. With seven Super Bowls to his name, there’s not many arguments against Brady’s claim as the greatest of all time. During an appearance on The Joel Klatt Show, Brady revealed which current NFL quarterback is the most like him. “From afar, I can only tell so much because if […]
Every quarterback is chasing Tom Brady. With seven Super Bowls to his name, there’s not many arguments against Brady’s claim as the greatest of all time. During an appearance on The Joel Klatt Show, Brady revealed which current NFL quarterback is the most like him.
“From afar, I can only tell so much because if I was in there every day, I could see their habits. It’s always that line about who wants to win versus who’s willing to do whatever it takes to win,” Brady said. “Everyone wants to win, but what are the habits and the daily habits and the actionable things you need to do every day to put your team in a position to win.
“Patrick Mahomes, to me, is the one that does that the most often because who he is — I mean, 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.”
From a winning perspective, Mahomes is easily the most similar to Brady of any current QB. In eight seasons in the NFL, Mahomes has won three Super Bowls, the same amount Brady won through his first eight seasons.
Mahomes has won two MVP awards. Brady only won one through his first eight years in the NFL. Alas, what made Brady’s career so special was his longevity. Mahomes will have to at least double his Super Bowl wins in the back half of his career and win another MVP award to rival Brady’s legacy.
While Mahomes is Brady’s closest modern comparison, there are QBs who could eventually earn that level of reverence. However, Tom Brady believes how they a lot of growing to do before they can reach that rarified air.
“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,” Brady said. “They’ve all shown flashes of amazing things. They’re 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’re doing, in terms of the organizational level.
“The quarterback, in many ways, is the CEO of the team, certainly on game day. There’s nobody that impacts the game more than the quarterback in NFL football. Now, you have to have the ability and the belief from the entire team, offensively and defensively, that your word means so much.”
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