

I could come out to New England and I would treat him six days a month. Early on in Tom's career, and this is our 16th year together, I could see him three days every other week, for example. Yeah that's true we do spend more time with it. Has Tom’s pliability been reduced or do you have to work harder to get him ready now than you originally did? The idea of creating new neural pathways of behavior, getting the body to the muscles to be long and unrestricted, so that they can support the forces that are being placed on them. Whether it's a groin injury or a hamstring injury or shoulder injury, but to me it's like, pretty simple like the missing piece for them is pliability. You see some of the best athletes today they'll go and exercise and lift do all these things and probably eat right, see a nutritionist and do all the right things and yet, week one, they go and they injure themselves in week one and it's a soft tissue injury. There's a lot that get enough sleep but they still can maintain and sustain their peak performance over long periods of time. There's a lot of people that hydrate well. That's not the reason why anybody is able to sustain their peak performance.

hydration, diet, sleep, those are all amplifiers to me. People like Joe Montana and Steve Young and all those greats, had they been able to incorporate more pliability into their lives at the time. I mean if you think I'm crazy today, people then really thought I was crazy.
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When I started 30 plus years ago, the whole concept of manual therapy and tissue pliability wasn't even an idea. So when we talk about different generations, players who were done at 30 years old, what did they not have? And so when we got together and started to help him and his body recover and repair, he said, ‘Alex, you make football fun for me.’ And he hadn't finished any year, any football season, and it was hard for him. I remember it was year six, and he was in pain. Willie McGinest taught me this when I started all those years ago. You know you play at this level, it’s not like you don’t have grit and determination and will. But how much of this is simple force of will?ĪG: It's interesting when people bring up will and what I learned, over 30 years of practice is that an athlete's ability to perform at a high level over a sustained period of time has mostly to do with just how they feel. We’ve heard about diet, pliability, hydration. It’s getting him ready so that his body can sustain the forces of the sport itself. So it’s pre-practice, it’s post-practice, it’s pregame, it’s postgame. And we're extremely dedicated, we work really hard at the same things all the time and we make sure our tissue’s always pliable and is able to support the force of the sport. We've been telling you guys for YEARS how we’re doing this. And it doesn’t seem like it’s that hard of an answer for us. How is this possible? How is he doing this?ĪG: We get the question all the time, Tommy and I. In going to Tampa, he asked that I stick to the “How is Brady doing this?” angle rather than plumb the circumstances of Brady’s departure from New England. So I’ve got a good relationship with him and respect for what he’s capable of. Patriots Talk Podcast: How much will the heat of Brady spotlight impact Mac Jones? | Listen & Subscribe | Watch on YouTube Belichick didn’t want to be left with an old, expensive and injured quarterback. If not that, then an injury that would rob him of his effectiveness.

The much-discussed “cliff” had to be coming. Brady couldn’t keep on at the level he was playing. But during the span from 2014 through 2020, Belichick was always on alert for the decline. Started making plans to replace him.Īnd in 2014, when Belichick drafted Jimmy Garoppolo and Brady turned 37, Brady won the first of the four Super Bowls he’s won in the past seven seasons. So in 2013, when Brady turned 36 and the Patriots offense slipped, Bill Belichick did what any coach with an aging player should do. And he’s been old - by conventional definitions - since 2012, the season he turned 35.

If you strip away every layer of intrigue surrounding Tom Brady’s relationship with the Patriots and why he’s not playing for them anymore it comes down to this.
