Lthe 2022 season of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers It has been far from brilliant, but despite a losing 6-8 record, the team has a chance to make the postseason, being the leaders of the league. South Division of the National Conference.
The team’s quarterback Tom Bradyalso has been far from his best years as a passer in a career in the NFL that start when he was drafted in 2000.
This season, Brady has 3,897 yards, with 20 touchdown passes, a good 66% completion rate, an 89.1-point passer rating, and seven interceptions, several of which have been very costly for Tampa Bay.
“I look at it like, what am I learning? What am I learning from putting in a similar amount of energy over the past few years and not winning? What is that teaching me? You know, we feel like we’re entitled to win all the time? Isn’t it?” Brady mused. “That’s not what life is about.
Such is life, you have no right to win. No one is guaranteed tomorrow.
never a losing season
Ever since he played starting quarterback in the NFL in 2011, Brady has never finished with a losing recordBy contrast, even in 2007 he finished the year with an unbeaten record of 17-0 with the New England Patriotsalthough in the end they lost the Super Bowl XLII before the New York Giants.
On Monday’s episode of his podcast SiriusXM Let’s Go! con Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald y Jim Graythe 45-year-old quarterback was asked what lessons he learned from the mental, emotional and physical challenges he overcame in 2022.
One of these challenges included his divorce with Gisele Bundchen and, most recently, the first season in which he recorded eight losses in his iconic career in the NFL.
“A lot of it is very personal that I don’t really care to share, I really don’t,” Brady said. “We all have physical, mental and emotional aspects that are challenged every year. Some years are a little more physically challenging and you have to overcome adversity physically.”
Brady reminded fans that he “took a big hit” on the shoulder this year, but he was able to deal with it and move on.
After Tampa Bay’s eighth loss of the season, and Brady’s first season losing eight, he admitted, “It’s hard to be in the media every day when you’re losing.”
Brady’s worst record of his NFL career was in 2002, his second year as a starter when he went 9-7 with the Patriots.
He can still finish with a winning record
Despite his 6-8 mark after falling last sunday before the Cincinnati Bengals (23-34), it must be remembered that since 2021 the NFL plays 17 games per season so, if they win their remaining three games, Brady and the Buccaneers could end up with a winning record.
Tampa Bay’s next rivals are visiting the Arizona Cardinals (4-10), then they receive at home the Carolina Panthers (5-9), and close by visiting the Atlanta Falcons (5-9).
