Brady on the state of the team
Brady hasn’t been pleased with the level of intensity the team has been displaying:
They played much better than we did in our own stadium, that’s the most disappointing part. I wish we would have showed a little more fight last night…
[re: injuries]
We’ve dealt with those in the past. We’ve dealt with plenty of injuries. We’ve dealt with plenty of tough situations. I think a lot has to do with the character and toughness of the team. I think we need to show more character…I believe in the guys we’ve got, I think we can play better than we did last night. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be very frustrated. I’d just say, ‘You know what, we’ll never beat those guys.’ But I don’t really feel like that. We weren’t going to beat them last night the way we played, but I thought wholeheartedly we would win that game. I don’t care about injuries. We talk about ourselves as a team. When you talk about yourselves as a team, you mean it, and I mean it. There’s not one guy that makes up the team.
I think it’s a general malaise, we look at the scoreboard and we’re losing and things aren’t going our way. We need to take that as a challenge, (not) go into that funk. We’ve been down in several games this year and come back and fought hard. We all know we’re capable of it. There’s nothing that says we can’t score every time we touch the ball. There’s no rule that says we can’t. But sometimes I think we score and say, ‘Wow, that wasn’t too bad. Let’s go out there again.’ And it’s not the same, and there’s not that same sense of urgency. As a captain, I will stress to the team that we have to start playing with higher expectations for ourselves.
(via)