Tom Brady is without a doubt the most successful quarterback to ever pick up a football. Over the course of his storied NFL career, Brady accumulated three MVP trophies and seven Super Bowl wins as the starting quarterback.
Now, Brady is talking about modern quarterbacks, and he’s being honest about how many he feels are in the same conversation as himself. Brady believes that only one quarterback in the league shares his “do-whatever-it-takes” mindset.
“It’s always that line about who wants to win versus who’s willing to do whatever it takes to win,” Brady said in an appearance on the Joel Klatt Show. “Everyone wants to win, but what are the habits and the daily habits and the actionable things you need to do every day to put your team in a position to win?
“So Patrick Mahomes, to me, is the one that does that the most often because who he is, obviously his physical talent, how he understands what he needs to do offensively, and he brings a consistent winning attitude to work every single day. In the biggest moments you can depend on him the most. That’s clear.”
Brady does think there are talented quarterbacks in the league, but also feels they need to prove themselves more.
“There’s other guys that are still developing, and they need to prove it before, in my mind, I can say, ‘Oh yeah, he’s done it.’ Well, obviously, he hasn’t done it yet,” Brady said. “They’ve all shown flashes of amazing things. They’re all great players.
“All of them can make tremendous plays. At some point, they need to take the next step and take, in my mind, more ownership of what they’re doing, in terms of the organizational level, to do more things to empower more people, to get more people on that train or that bus with you to head in the direction you want to go.”
It’ll be interesting to see who the next quarterback to prove himself in Brady’s eyes will be.