What did Tom Brady miss most during the 2023 NFL season, his first year away from football in his adult life?
The structure and routine of preparing for a game each week, the newest NFL on FOX analyst told Colin Cowherd on “The Herd” Wednesday.
Fortunately for Brady, he’s about to get some of that back.
“I believe that broadcasting at FOX this year for the first time will give me a lot more structure like I’m used to.” Brady said. “And I really actually will look forward to that.”
Brady also said he expects nervousness to set in before his debut on FOX Sports’ lead NFL broadcast team — alongside Kevin Burkhardt, Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldo — when the Dallas Cowboys take on the Cleveland Browns in Week 1 of the 2024 season. That would be par for the course, he explained, because he “always had nerves” before every game of his legendary NFL career where he won seven Super Bowls, five Super Bowl MVPs, three NFL MVPs and holds virtually every major passing record, making him widely considered the greatest football player of all time.
“The outcomes weren’t guaranteed for any of us,” Brady said. “You never really know how sports are going to go, which is why we all tune in. We tune in because the outcomes are very unexpected. … The only way that I knew how to combat the nerves and the anxiousness of the game was to prepare.”
Tom Brady on how a QB prepares for a game
Brady got his first taste of a live football broadcast in Sunday’s UFL Championship Game alongside Curt Menefee and Joel Klatt, and has been rehearsing using archive game footage in the FOX Sports studios in Los Angeles recently.
Brady, ever the perfectionist, said he is pushing himself like he did as a quarterback.
“It’s almost like when I was a player, I never felt like I did things the right way,” Brady explained. “There were games where I’d go in [to the locker room] afterward and think, ‘God, I’m the worst quarterback in the NFL.’ Like, why would they even want me to play quarterback for…
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