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New England Patriots three-time Super Bowl champion Nate Ebner opened up about Tom Brady’s preparation and the standard the legendary quarterback set for his teammates.
It was one thing seeing his former head coach, Bill Belichick, lead by example, but it was something else entirely when it was Brady. As a superstar talent, Brady could have easily taken a more laid-back approach to the game. However, his willingness to consistently put in the work on and off the field set the kind of example that players had no other choice but to follow.
"But then you've got Tom Brady. ...He has every excuse in the world to, 'Um, I'm not practicing today' or 'I'm not going to do this workout. I'm the best there is, so I can do whatever I want.' And he just was not like that," Ebner said on Innerspace. "If anyone embodied the hard work, put the team first, do your job, like, Tom did it more at a level no one else did. ...When you have a leader that leads your team like that, who's as good as they are, who embodies that culture like they do—who the [expletive] am I to come in there and not try to match that?"
Ebner isn't the only former Patriot to sing Brady's leadership praises on a podcast. Former Patriots wide receiver Josh Gordon recently talked about the obsessive practice rituals the seven-time Super Bowl winner would undergo in the offseason with his teammates to prepare for the season.
Ebner played for eight seasons in New England before finishing his career with the New York Giants. In that time, he learned that the "Patriot Way" was more than a slogan. It was something everybody lived by in the building.
The concept might seem rigid for some, but the Patriots have enough success and championships as a franchise to show it worked. And at the center of it all was the man most consider the greatest quarterback to ever play in the NFL.
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This article originally appeared on Patriots Wire: Patriots SB champ reveals rare way Tom Brady kept teammates in line
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It was one thing seeing his former head coach, Bill Belichick, lead by example, but it was something else entirely when it was Brady. As a superstar talent, Brady could have easily taken a more laid-back approach to the game. However, his willingness to consistently put in the work on and off the field set the kind of example that players had no other choice but to follow.
"But then you've got Tom Brady. ...He has every excuse in the world to, 'Um, I'm not practicing today' or 'I'm not going to do this workout. I'm the best there is, so I can do whatever I want.' And he just was not like that," Ebner said on Innerspace. "If anyone embodied the hard work, put the team first, do your job, like, Tom did it more at a level no one else did. ...When you have a leader that leads your team like that, who's as good as they are, who embodies that culture like they do—who the [expletive] am I to come in there and not try to match that?"
Ebner isn't the only former Patriot to sing Brady's leadership praises on a podcast. Former Patriots wide receiver Josh Gordon recently talked about the obsessive practice rituals the seven-time Super Bowl winner would undergo in the offseason with his teammates to prepare for the season.
Ebner played for eight seasons in New England before finishing his career with the New York Giants. In that time, he learned that the "Patriot Way" was more than a slogan. It was something everybody lived by in the building.
The concept might seem rigid for some, but the Patriots have enough success and championships as a franchise to show it worked. And at the center of it all was the man most consider the greatest quarterback to ever play in the NFL.
Follow Patriots Wire on Twitter and Facebook.
This article originally appeared on Patriots Wire: Patriots SB champ reveals rare way Tom Brady kept teammates in line
Continue reading...
