Patriots fans will love Tom Brady’s attitude toward media critics

When you’re a starting quarterback for over two decades, you’re going to get a fair share of criticism. When you’ve reached the level of superstardom that former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has, you enter a rarefied tier of your own that invites critics from all across the alley.

Even when you’ve won as many championships as he has, there will always be those in the media looking to tear you down and blame you whenever your team hits the skids. Listening to too much of that criticism is a good way to get yourself off balance and give in to all of the doubt.

With Brady expected to compete for championships every season, that pressure could make every loss feel like the most dire situation in the world. TB12 has a foolproof system for blocking out the hate and using that to fuel a performance that will have the pundits on TV striking a different tune next week.

Brady says that he watches what his critics have to say on TV following his losses before yelling all sorts of obscenities and flipping the TV off. Not taking those boatloads of criticism to heart has played a big role in Brady’s consistency and longevity over the last few seasons.

Former Patriots QB Tom Brady is great at tuning out the noise

There will be plenty of hate this season if Brady and his Tampa Bay Buccaneers don’t come out of the gate firing on all cylinders. With Tampa Bay bringing back most of the contributors from last year in a very weak NFC, Brady should be expected to roll through the regular season.

The moment he loses, you can bet that everyone on a daily debate show is going to be going after him for his ineptitude that given week. After two decades of this, Brady has come to the conclusion that their opinion doesn’t matter.

For someone that doesn’t have a very high opinion of what talking heads on TV have to say, it seems that Brady was interested enough in the lifestyle to join FOX as an analyst after his career ends. The outrageous contract might have had something to do with that, however.

Even if Brady’s comments were partially in jest, the notion of blocking out the criticism and just doing your job has generally served him well in his career.

That formula might be effective enough to help Brady endure decades of slings and arrows from haters with a microphone.

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