TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is in the twilight of his NFL career. He is 43 years old and has three children at home. But none of those things have softened him on social media or elsewhere.
First Brady erased a 17-0 halftime deficit to defeat the Atlanta Falcons 31-27 Sunday, evoking flashbacks of Super Bowl LI when he led the New England Patriots back from a 28-3 deficit to defeat the Falcons 34-28.
Then on Tuesday, he threw shade at Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy when Dungy called Brady the “sixth-most difficult quarterback in NFL history to defend.”
Brady retweeted Dungy’s comments to Shannon Sharpe while posting a photo of a banner that reads “2014 AFC Finalist” with the Indianapolis Colts logo, one of Dungy’s former teams.
Ouch.
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— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) December 22, 2020
“Those mobile quarterbacks — that’s who I put ahead of Tom,” Dungy said. “Aaron Rodgers, John Elway, Steve Young, guys who could move. Not to say Tom wasn’t great, but that extra dimension meant something to me, so that’s why I would only put him at [No.] 6. Just my opinion.”
Dungy also said with a chuckle, “I’m never putting Tom Brady ahead of Peyton Manning, so the best he could be is [No.] 2, because Peyton was my guy.”
Dungy did not coach the Colts in 2014. That was Chuck Pagano’s team. But Brady and the Patriots absolutely obliterated that Colts team 45-7 in the AFC Championship that year. Brady also went 5-3 in his career against Dungy’s Colts, including their final matchup in 2007, a Week 9 game that the Patriots won 24-20.
But Dungy is not only a former coach of Brady’s current team, the Bucs, he’s in the Buccaneers Ring of Honor. His name is literally etched inside Raymond James Stadium.
Plus, Clyde Christensen, now Brady’s QBs coach, was also on that staff, as was offensive line coach Joe Gilbert. No doubt this is getting discussed at practice Wednesday, along with some bootlegs, rollouts and possible RPOs.
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