When you've clinched your 10th trip to the Super Bowl, it's easy to act like you've been there before. But while many of his Tampa Bay Buccaneers teammates haven't played in the Super Bowl previously, Brady doesn't expect them to be happy just to have a chance to play on the sport's highest stage.
Buccaneers linebacker Lavonte David - one of the team's captains - recently joined Bryant McFadden and Patrick Peterson on their podcast. He said that after the Buccaneers defeated the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game, Brady didn't take kindly to an unnamed teammate crying in the locker room.
“When I realized that it was real, when I realized it was like all the other stuff doesn’t really matter unless it’s the Super Bowl was like after we won the NFC Championship,” David said. “You know me, I was all happy and sh-t, it was my first. I’m geeked up. Then like I guess somebody was crying. And I guess like, I heard [Brady], just like, ‘What the f–k you crying for? We not done yet.'”
“He’s right,” David said. “He’s right. You know, I had a little two tears, too. So I wiped my sh-t, too. . . . We still got work to do.” H/T Pro Football Talk
This is a pretty similar story to what Peter King of NBC Sports reported Brady said when linebacker Devin White was a bit upset about his Pro Bowl snub: "‘D, there’s a bigger bowl I’m chasing. We’re all chasing it. C’mon.’
Lots of players and coaches will say publicly that anything short of a Super Bowl is disappointing to some degree. But when you've won six Super Bowl titles and are 43 years old, literally anything short of winning the Super Bowl in a given year is a failure. That may not be the best mentality for finding inner peace, but it helps you win more championships than any other player in the history of the sport.
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