Tom Brady reflects on growing pains in first year in NFL broadcast booth, calling Super Bowl

by: Nick Kosko 47 minutes ago nickkosko59

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Tom Brady reflected on his first year of broadcasting the NFL for FOX and calling the Super Bowl and like any great quarterback, he took a lot of lessons. Brady knew he wasn’t perfect but plans on keeping his head down and keep working towards perfection.

Like he did on the field, Brady knows there’s plenty to work on in all facets. Heck, he even described it as his rookie year as a quarterback, making all kinds of adjustments.

“I had a great year. I had the best team, and I had so many teammates that helped me through that first year,” Brady told Joel Klatt. “For me, I was like, really going into the year, and I thought I was prepared, because I had done a lot of research, and I had, you know, a year to kind of prepare, and a lot of practice games, but there was absolutely nothing that I did that could really prepare me for what I was about to endure.

“And there (were) a lot of growing pains through the year for me, just in terms of prep and then obviously going on air. And there’s things you mess up, and there’s things that you make mistakes, and probably a lot like being an NFL quarterback, you know, you think, ‘Hey, I’m prepared, and I got it and I practice.’ And then, you know, you go to a real game of your rookie year, and you’re like, ‘Oh my God. Like, that’s a lot different. It’s a lot faster.’ And then, you know, gets a little better in Week 2, and a little better in Week 3, and then sometimes you regress a little bit, and sometimes you do things you really like that impress you. And then sometimes you’re like, you forgot completely going into Week 9, like, how did I do that? Or what were they talking about?

“And then it’s just, you know, by the time I got to the Super Bowl, I was way more comfortable. And it was just a really rewarding year. And it wasn’t perfect by any means, and I certainly didn’t expect it to be perfect, but just excited about now going into Year 2 with one year under my belt, and again, still having people that are on this journey with me that kind of have brought so much joy to my life in my post career. So it’s been really amazing.”

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