With Tom Brady holding his seventh Super Bowl trophy and a whole lot of leverage against his former coach Bill Belichick, it seems there’s a steady trickle of information from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback’s camp about his exit from the New England Patriots.
Brady’s body coach Alex Guerrero spoke with The Boston Herald’s Karen Guregian to speculate upon how Belichick and Brady’s relationship went sour.
“The interesting thing I think there — and this is just me, an outsider looking in — it was like Bill never really . . . I think his emotions or feelings never evolved with age,” Guerrero told the Herald. “I think in time, with Tom, as Tom got into his late 30s or early 40s, I think Bill was still trying to treat him like that 20-year-old kid that he drafted. And all the players, I think, realized Tom was different. He’s older, so he should be treated differently. And all the players, none of them would have cared that he was treated differently. I think that was such a Bill thing. He never evolved. So you can’t treat someone who’s in his 40s like they’re 20. It doesn’t work.”
These comments come just a few days after Tom Brady Sr., the Bucs quarterback’s father, mentioned he felt “vindicated” that his son was having success in Tampa and that the quarterback felt Belichick didn’t want to work together anymore.
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