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A better test of how the offense develops comes late next month when the Patriots start training camp. Thursday's minicamp session is the last full team practice before then.
"We had a lot more time than the kids have now," Brady said. "We had a quarterback (camp) where we met five days a week for like nine hours,Dale Murphy Braves Throwback Jersey, all on going through the playbook. And that was really helpful for me.
"I was pretty fortunate to come in at the time that I did with coach Belichick," Brady said.
"If you want to be special at this game then you've got to do whatever it takes,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping," he said. "Some things come a little more naturally to certain people than others. The mental part came pretty natural for me. I think I really had to work hard on the physical part, what it takes to be an NFL player."
"I don't even know if you can compare the two," Garoppolo said with a chuckle. "It's night and day."
So after four weeks of practice, "you know the things you need to improve on," Brady said. "You have five weeks to focus on it and make it better so you can come into the camp at the most important time, really at your best."
But he had plenty of time to watch and learn. Since that was Bill Belichick's first season as head coach, all the quarterbacks were learning a new system.
"You're only a young player for a certain amount of time in the NFL and at that point people are just waiting for you to produce. Nobody can really make mistakes, not if you want to be a good offense."
"The reason I was a sixth-round pick was I didn't have much ability,Cheap Adidas Hockey Jerseys," the two-time NFL MVP said Wednesday. "So you've got to try to work hard to improve those things over the years while still keeping my mental game sharp."
In 2000, though, he was just one of four Patriots quarterbacks. Drew Bledsoe was the starter, John Friesz threw 21 passes, Michael Bishop threw nine and Brady only three.
"Were they Jet fans or Dolphin fans or Bills fans? Patriots fans?" he said with a grin. "Everyone's a little biased,NFL Jerseys China. My wife thinks I play pretty good. My mom thinks I play pretty good."
"Whoever plays that position has to take a strong leadership position," Brady said. "There's no one else that's going to do it if the quarterback doesn't do it so that's a trait that all the good quarterbacks have and Jimmy's got very good leadership skills."
There's little time to waste with so much to learn in so little time. Every day missed with an injury is a setback.
The physical part of playing quarterback was tougher.
"When you get behind in training camp, it's hard to make up," Brady said. "Things are moving so fast at that point and improvements are so dramatic every day with installation and correcting all the errors.
He laughed then said, "I'm always pretty fired up so I think there's people that always have opinions about us as athletes and you just try to go out there and do your best. You go home at night realizing you left it all on the field and some days you don't play your best, but that's sports."
Heading into his 15th season, Brady wants to do that as long as possible no matter what critics say. A recent Pro Football Focus story said he wasn't one of the league's top five quarterbacks.
Do such opinions fire him up?
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady was a solid student as a rookie learning the New England Patriots playbook.
Now it's Jimmy Garoppolo's turn to be the team's rookie quarterback,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China. His leadership and poise have stood out during three weeks of organized team activities and this week's minicamp.
Back then, the Patriots held an offseason quarterback camp.
Offseason practices with the Patriots are much more intense than the ones Garoppolo had at Eastern Illinois.
Then Brady wondered where those comments originated.
NOTES: Belichick shed no light on cornerback Darrelle Revis' absence from practice Wednesday. "All the players that are out there practicing are practicing and the ones that aren't, aren't," he said. ... Brady said his wife,Cheap Jerseys From China, Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, would go to the World Cup in Brazil, but he wasn't sure whether he would. "I haven't finalized everything. It's a busy time," Brady said. "I've got three kids at home so they take up a lot of time and energy. I know my wife's heading down there so it'll be fun for her." |
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