{"id":803618,"date":"2021-09-22T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=803618"},"modified":"2021-09-22T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T00:00:03","slug":"tom-brady-says-football-a-little-softer-than-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-brady-says-football-a-little-softer-than-it-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady Says Football \u2018A Little Softer Than It Used To Be\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftom-brady-says-football-a-little-softer-than-it-used-to-be%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=803618&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1341730483.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The NFL game has changed in many ways over the past two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Once a league dominated by the run game and hard-hitting linebackers, the passing game has become king as rule changes have increasingly come to favor teams that spread the ball around the field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tom Brady \u2013 in his 21st NFL season \u2014 has seen the evolution of the game first-hand. If anyone is qualified to discuss the ways in which the game has changed, it\u2019s Brady.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He\u2019s been a starting quarterback in the NFL since 2001, in a game that was played much differently than it is in today\u2019s NFL. Front office executives are now looking for quarterbacks who can spread the field and make plays with their legs as opposed to the traditional pocket QB.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On the latest episode of the \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/lets-go-with-tom-brady-larry-fitzgerald-and-jim-gray\/id1584409759\"><span>Let\u2019s Go!<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d podcast with broadcaster Jim Gray, Brady spoke about the increase of mobile quarterbacks in the NFL and whether the trend will continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think there\u2019s probably a lot of shortsightedness,\u201d Brady <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/lets-go-with-tom-brady-larry-fitzgerald-and-jim-gray\/id1584409759\">said<\/a>. \u201cYou know, when I hear that a lot, because I\u2019ve heard over the years, you know, \u2018Oh, the game is changing,\u2019 and so forth. I think the game changes in different ways, absolutely. It evolves and changes and grows, and hopefully it\u2019s getting better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd at the same time, I think that there has always been, you know, incredible athletes playing professional football at the quarterback position. Randall Cunningham was an incredible athlete. Kenny Stabler was an incredible quarterback. Roger Staubach was. Michael Vick, I mean, I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s anyone more athletic that\u2019s ever played than Michael Vick \u2026 I think it definitely adds an element to the game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Brady went on to discuss the ways in which the game has become more difficult for defensive players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Once viewed as a violent sport with big collisions and suffocating defenses, the NFL has become a quarterback\u2019s dream, with defenses seemingly playing with one hand tied behind their backs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd I would say the one thing that\u2019s probably changed over the years in terms of why it\u2019s probably gone a little more this way is, and I\u2019ve alluded to this in the past, I think they\u2019re calling more penalties on defensive players for hitting, you know, for violent contact,\u201d Brady <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/lets-go-with-tom-brady-larry-fitzgerald-and-jim-gray\/id1584409759\">continued<\/a>. \u201cAnd I think when you\u2019re out of the pocket, you know, we got called on a play yesterday where <\/span><span>Ryan Jensen\u2019s&nbsp;<\/span><span>going basically to protect our runner and they throw an unnecessary roughness on an offensive lineman that I don\u2019t think would have been called, you know, five years ago.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of plays and hits that are happening on quarterbacks now, that are flags for defensive players, that probably weren\u2019t that way 10 or 15 years ago. So I\u2019d say the game is a little softer than it used to be. I think the defensive players are more on the defensive when they go in to tackle. And I think that\u2019s probably adding to this element of quarterbacks outside the pocket and taking more chances, you know, than they did in the past.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Whether the league is actually \u201csofter\u201d or not, changes to the game don\u2019t appear to have an impact on Brady. He\u2019s coming off his seventh Super Bowl win and has his Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 2-0 to start the 2021 season. Brady has thrown nine touchdowns in the first two games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to&nbsp;<\/i><i>sports@dailywire.com<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL game has changed in many ways over the past two decades.Once a league dominated by the run game and hard-hitting linebackers, the passing game has become king as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}