“It’s Hard to Look at Your Teammates in the Eyes”: Tom Brady Reveals How NBA’s “Load Management” Doesn’t Make Any Sense in Pro-football

An athlete’s longevity and health is a critical deliberation in sports. In the NFL, many athletes compete despite not being healthy to deliver. But NBA stands different; They make use of the load management policy. But the technique does not compel Tom Brady, and he does not see the logic of why the NBA stars would do so.

Season two of SiriusXM’s Let’s Go! Podcast premiered with Tom Brady, Jim Gray, and Larry Fitzgerald. They discussed a variety of topics and also highlighted the NBA’s load management. Brady appears to be perplexed why healthy athletes sit out games to relax.

Brady mentioned, “I think that football players; we try to take care of ourselves the best we can too. I think once you’re in a game and you’re playing, you know, I don’t know why you’d be healthy and not play. That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.” He adds, “I feel like so much of what I’ve learned about my body is, working hard is very important. Your ability to recover is very important. We don’t have the option to not play football if you cannot play. But if you’re healthy, you play. There’s too many guys not healthy that you, it’s hard to look your teammates in the eye and go, ‘Wow, they’re not healthy and playing and I’m healthy and I’m not playing.’ That would make no sense.”

Tom Brady also stated they are feeling good as they have not taken hits or thrown many passes this year. But when the time comes, there will be hits and throws. One must learn how to rebound swiftly.

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Load management is an NBA tactic that limits and supervises an athlete’s game time or exercise in training or matches. As both games have different approaches, it is obvious to have a different perspective.

Tom Brady encourages offensive lineup to use detractors’ criticisms as fuel

Tom Brady begins the year after losing some athletes over injury, retirement, and departure. Safe to say, the offensive lineup is lacking in some star power. But despite all the hate the team is receiving, Brady has kept the offensive line upbeat. The QB spoke on the Let’s Go! Podcast that he wants his teammates to take the naysayers’ statements as inspiration.

Brady even showed how to do it by displaying when someone claimed they sucked and were incapable of doing anything. Brady also questioned whether this is what all are saying and how they plan to combat it. With TB12 in the Buccaneers, they have a monumental chance to conquer the league again.

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