#TRASH TALKER FREE#
At practice, he’s free to talk all the trash he wants. Depending on who he’s playing, he may not want to put up bulletin board material or reveal what’s making him successful on that given day. But in a game, he may not necessarily want to indicate exactly how he’s crushing a defense. So I just think it’s fun.”īrady can test out material for games - just like he’s testing out his passes. “I think in training camp and practice, you are challenging your own defense, so you want to get the best out of them. “You’re always trying to bring a competitiveness and urgency to the team, to the offense,” Brady said. “Makes the days go by when you get a little juiced up,” Brady said.īut of course, there’s more to it than that. He’s playful and ruthless with his teammates.
So when Brady got into the red zone on the practice field, he reassured the offense they would have no problem scoring against the defense that had struggled so much. Mayo recalled a film study when Belichick railed the defense for poor red zone play. When Mayo and Brady were fighting at the line of scrimmage, Mayo was preventing Brady from exposing his defense, which opened the door for Brady to remind the defense what route he’s using to beat a particular defensive back or how often a linebacker is getting beat to the hole. So it was almost felt like it was way of trash talking Belichick without ever having to.”īrady can be as cold, calculated and practiced about his trash talk as he is with his pocket passing and pre-snap adjustments. The 40-year-old quarterback can land a quick diss and make it hurt - just like he has a knack for landing the ball in the right place at the right moment. “If the offense was having a good day, you know Belichick - he’s a defensive coach. “I remember Jerod Mayo and talked a ton of trash across each other in the huddle,” former Patriots offensive lineman Rich Ohrnberger said. The talking before the snap would lead to trash talking afterward. But for the players - particularly Mayo and Brady - their pride was on the line. They were preparing each other for the next game, the most important thing in the world to coach Bill Belichick, as he has emphasized at every press conference. When it came down to it, we knew what the other person was looking at, so we were always trying to disguise and always try to change things at the last minute to win out at practice.”Ī lot was at stake with each snap. And I knew some of the checks, and I knew some of what he was reading on his side of the ball. Tom - he knew our defense better than some of our players knew the defense. “We would just go back and forth,” Jerod Mayo told Patriots Wire. But when Brady made an adjustment, Mayo would make a corresponding move. So Brady used all the time afforded to him to make sure his team was set up properly against the defense. There was often no play clock to force Brady to start the play in a timely fashion. The offense and defense were lined up across from one another. NFL footage © NFL Productions LLC.New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and linebacker Jerod Mayo would stand at the line of scrimmage for minutes at a time during practices. All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League. NFL and the NFL shield design are registered trademarks of the National Football League.The team names, logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated.
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