Chris Mason
masslive.com
It’s safe to say Tom Brady thinks he takes football pretty seriously.
On Monday night, the former Patriots quarterback was joined by Kevin Durant on his “Let’s Go!” podcast with Jim Gray, and the topic of work-life balance came up. Durant spoke of “hibernating” during the season, and Brady offered an interesting comparison of his own.
“I almost look at like a football season like you’re going away on deployment in the military, and it’s like, ‘man, here I go again,’” Brady said. “There’s only one way to do it. And I think Jim, we’ve talked from time to time just about how do you enjoy the certain moments of it?
“The reality is you can really only be authentic to yourself, right? Whenever you may say, ‘Oh man, I want to, you know, make sure I spend a little more time doing this.’ When it comes down to it, your competitiveness takes over and as much as you want to have this playful balance with the work balance, you’re going to end up doing exactly what you’ve always done, which is why you are who you are. You’re going to go, ‘how the (expletive) do I get it done?’ You know, ‘what do I got to do to get it done?’”
The timing of Brady’s comment may raise some eyebrows, as he skipped Tampa Bay’s Saturday walkthroughs to attend a party for Robert Kraft’s wedding in New York, and the Buccaneers were subsequently upset in Pittsburgh as 10-point favorites.
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