When Tom Brady’s team lost on Sunday, he was so upset that he almost forgot his family was in the stadium.
On this week’s episode of his SiriusXM podcast Let’s Go! with Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald, and Jim Gray, the star quarterback talked about Tampa Bay’s “tough loss on the road” to the San Francisco 49ers.
We got our ass kicked,
Brady, who grew up in the Bay Area, said this about the big loss. The NFL star was so upset about losing 35-7 that he forgot that about 100 friends and family members were at the game to watch him play.
He revealed,
I was walking from the locker room to the bus — a kind of long walk of 500 yards or so — and just as I got to the bus the woman who I was with said, ‘Hey, didn’t you want to see your family?’
So I turned around and walked back.
Brady was surprised to find that some of his family members had stayed to watch the loss.
And at least after the game I got to see my sisters, nieces and some cousins. My parents left in the third quarter, thankfully, to get home.
Brady said that his team lost because they couldn’t “do anything the way we needed to in order to win.”
The 49ers have the best defense in the NFL right now, and Brady said that he “was responsible for two of the turnovers” that led to the loss.
I missed Mike [Evans] open in the end zone for a touchdown,
Brady explained.
Missed Scotty [Miller] down the field. So, you know, just look at myself and realize I gotta do a lot better than that in order to win.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers star also said that “this time of year” brings “a lot of things” that can “take your attention away from where it needs to be.” Going forward, he wants to keep doing what he’s doing:
just gonna keep battling,
said Brady.
At this point in the season, Brady’s Buccaneers are below .500, which he said, “feels terrible.”
I just think there’s an intense level of urgency that everyone’s gotta feel. And you got four games left in the season and everything’s ahead of us. We’re below .500. That feels horrible the way that we lost yesterday.
This week, as they get ready to play the 9-4 Cincinnati Bengals, Brady wants to “come in with a great sense of determination and discipline to get better,” he said.
It’s a singular focus on how I can do my job in the best possible way.
Brady does better on the field when he puts his feelings into the game. He told the crowd that there is “one emotion” he always tries to find during a game, and that is anger.
Brady said that he is a “pretty calm” person “by nature.”
But anger is the one emotion that works for me,
admitted Brady.
So when I don’t feel it and you guys see me [saying], you know, ‘Motherf–ker,’ that is in trying to get me going.’ady
