Colin Cowherd - Tom Brady Had Enough of Bill Belichick's Rigidity

I want to start, thank you Joe, we'll start with South Wickersham, who is a very good journalist and has these stories where he gets all kinds of information. He was reading his story about Tom Brady and I'll read you a couple word for word. of sentences here says that Brady was deeply dissatisfied after the Super Bowl loss to the Eagles, he had 613 yards and no punts. Belichick addressed the team when he returned to Foxborough and Brady stared down, barely glancing up at his coach. Brady told people in the building that day he wouldn't come back needing distance he parted ways with the team in the spring he left passive-aggressive comments on social media he pleaded with the fifth ESPN's Ian O'Connor in his book Belichick reported that Brady wanted a divorce After that Super Bowl loss by his coach and Brady made it clear to author Mark Leibovich in the book's big game that he was fed up with the Belichick culture, it wasn't fun, he continues, and Brady didn't feel appreciated in words of a confidant.

He said: why am I doing this? Brady needed something new on Monday night, March 16. Brady called Kraft, they lived near him, got in his car, drove around the block and told him that he was gone. Kraft believed that he would come to accept a new agreement. Contact contract with Patriot, one of the parts according to this article is that Bruce Arians has fostered a very fun environment and we maintained this because Colin was right. I continued saying that what they told me are the two things in my life, the times I have left. places of employment you always end up looking for the one thing that your current environment doesn't offer you one or two things when you read Seth Wickersham's article the two things Brady wanted guns Tampa Adam and a little fun is what Bruce Arians is all about Brady was very human and very common, that's why people leave what's happening at my current workplace, that I can solve better players on offense and relax a little, hug each other and go out once in a while at night, that's according to South.

Wickersham really was the driving force, it was never money, it was never money, by the way, Tamp is one of the cheapest places in America to live, without state taxes, 25 million in Tampa is like 34 million in New York, but here This is what I come back to. a is where like Tom Brady has been a different guy in his patriots day single man married man married with kids boy brand T b12 boy pre-super bowl post icon pre Super Bowl now an icon you know Belichick hasn't changed and I He I've seen this my entire career, not just in business and life, but I've seen it a lot with coaches.

Coaches who are rigid and more dogmatic about his style don't age as well. I remember when I was a kid, Frank Kush, football coach and Arizona State Bobby Knight Woody Hayes I think Mike Ditka got too rigid that's how I coached that's how I do things I think Gregg Popovich is a pretty smart guy, a very smart guy , but their culture shut down Kawhi Leonard, a very modern 2020 NBA star and when I look at the coaches that Andy Reid has evolved between Kansas City and Philadelphia, he really started to adapt to these college schemes. Coach K at Duke, you know he was stiff at first and then said why not get one at Dunn's, they're beating me.

I'd rather have them and beat other teams. I think John Harbaugh is very similar, you know. We can't keep doing this pocket quarterback thing. Doc Rivers used to want to have control over the staff. He gave it up and said, "I'm just going to do it." Coach, I'm only a four and I have a lot of flaws, but when I was getting into this business I looked at the older sportscasters and I always remember thinking I don't want to be the older sportscaster who doesn't grow, doesn't get better. I don't want to be the guy that makes a little scratch and thinks you know it's over keep growing hire young people be around young people evolve like everyone's sports I used to talk a lot more I used to talk about baseball 15 years ago.

It used to be more college football than professional football and I and I think that no matter how smart Bob Knight or Bill Belichick are Belichick has to realize that things change and one of the things that really changes is not just football, Do you know how many times he did it? I have an athlete and I've been told, you know, I like that my coach cared about me, of course they do, of course they do football, it's hard and there used to be a world that you lived in where, You know, you show up to practice.

You know, this culture for Popovich and Belichick was largely carried by two guys, Tim Duncan and Tom Brady, and when Tim Duncan left and wasn't the centerpiece of the locker room, the next star, Kawhi Leonard, didn't buy Popovich , I do not buy. In him they sent him from San Antonio it doesn't matter they are not as good as Utah they are not as good as Denver they are not the Lakers they are not the Clippers and the Syrians similarly with Bill Belichick do not underestimate That was that article from a couple of years ago that you know they can win with a lot of people in New England.

You'll never find another NBA player like Duncan or another NFL player like Brady who is fully willing to sacrifice money in big-earning years. basically carry the culture, not be a part of it, carry it and I think Popovich took it for granted with Duncan and he had Kawhi Leonard and he crashed and bought him and he wasn't flexible when you have Kawhi Leonard who is the best, get a guy bucket. In the NBA you have to be flexible because you won't have another Kawhi Leonard in the next four or five years and I think he's always been underestimated in New England and they can put out all the press releases they want. you hug athletes a little they want to be liked they want to be loved you know Parcells Phil Simms came on Friday to this show it was a great interview he said Parcells was gruff but he would come up to you from time to time and say boy you're lucky to have you and Sims.

I started laughing. Sim said that he would come up to you once at camp and tell you that you were so excited. Bill liked it. Bill Parcels. Really, that's all you need. You do not have to do it. Tell people all day that you love them, but you have to hug them once in a while. I'm all for tough love from time to time, but I think there's a little bit of a lack of warmth with Bella and I think that tired Brady and I and it didn't. Never mind the one thing in my life that I have seen over and over again.

Nothing drills intelligence and brain power like

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. It doesn't mean you have to change your values. It doesn't mean you have to give up the things you believe in. but man, the world is changing, you can change with it because it's changing, regardless of you, it's changing, I see you better be able to ride a wave and occasionally write it down. I said it when I moved to Manhattan Beach, California, when I first arrived where I live. Now I will do it from time to time, but not so much. I would go down and have a coffee and go down and watch the surfers.

I would stand on the pier or park my car and watch the surfers. and I would sit there for half an hour. I would just sit there and watch the surfers. It's kind of fascinating on a Saturday morning at like 5:30 or 6:00. I get up early and the only thing you noticed about the really good either The surfers or surfers were picky about the waves, they were picky about it, but what a good surfer would do is listen, man, don't waste your time on the shitty waves, but once you have a good wave, you ride it, let it do its thing.

I work for you, there's no reason to waste your energy on a bad wave, really good surfers sit there for 15 minutes and ride one and it's the same in life in football when you get a good wave, Brady and Tim Duncan, We're They're going to carry a lot of water because you appreciate them because you don't get a lot, you don't get a lot of great waves, you can go, you can go out surfing for 90 minutes and get three great waves, take them and ride them all the way because they don't last and there's not a lot of they're not going to get another Brady there aren't many Tim Duncans you just don't get many Tim Duncans it's like a pay cut.

I'm going to win games and I'm not going to attack the players who don't do that they make the money they make all the money they can most of the guys didn't take big pay cuts they're not willing to be barked at they're not willing to carry your water and wear your culture and you better appreciate it, it's a rare commodity and that's not an opportunity for athletes, they have a very short lifespan, they want your money, they want to be treated well and they deserve to be treated well. I'm done talking about surfing, you know, look, yeah, you got it, you have to find content even when you're having a coffee and watching the joy of surfers, yeah, wait, have you ever tried surfing?

Oh, I surf bad, it's funny, I did it with my cell phone money with my son, what about that nine year old kid, even though he was 13 when he still liked me? We used to body surf and now you know it's girls and computers and you know I just tried to get him to call me back once in a while.