Something bugging Brady?
Some people have pointed out online that Brady seems more volatile this year. And having read that, I definitely remember pre-season articles talking about him getting really jazzed up himself when making bad plays in practice. Then there was that sequence with Dillon in the Oakland game, and then in the Carolina game we had hands-on-head, slumping, etc.
Now, I’m not one of the mediots who thinks “bad body language” demotivates the entire team, so in that sense I don’t care about what Brady was doing. But I do wonder if Brady, especially with Weiss gone and no replacement OC, is overdoing the self-pressure thing. Sure, getting frustrated about a bad day is normal (and make no mistake about it — if Brady had been sharper, they likely could have won, even with all the other idiocies that happened in that game), but you can’t let it get to you.
As I said in a previous post, the upcoming game against Pittsburgh is going to be an important test in many ways. If the bad and questionable stuff continues, I think it’ll be time to be worried.