Tom Brady's Late Night Texts Have Everyone Talking

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00:01Super Bowl champ Tom Brady may have only joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as team quarterback

00:06in 2020, but he's quickly become a leader of the NFL team, in more ways than one. Not

00:12only did he help usher the team to its second Super Bowl win through sheer talent and years

00:16of experience, but he motivated his teammates in a simple yet seemingly effective way.

00:22Despite his talent as an athlete, it's also arguably worth noting that Brady has been

00:27a controversial figure throughout the years. Many have questioned Brady's long friendship

00:33with former President Donald Trump, although in April 2020, the football star told radio

00:38host Howard Stern that the relationship had become uncomfortable. He explained,

00:43"...you know, you can't undo things, and not that I would undo a friendship, but the political

00:49support is totally different than the support of a friend."

00:53And of course, let's not forget Deflategate, the controversy surrounding whether Brady,

00:58then the New England Patriots quarterback, had the footballs deflated before the 2014 Super

01:03Bowl so that his team could have an advantage over the Indianapolis Colts.

01:07Still, whatever your thoughts on Brady, there's simply no denying that he's a winner. And he

01:13proved that again at Super Bowl 55 in Tampa on February 7, 2021, when he trounced the Chiefs

01:201-9. Now, some are chalking up the team's winning mentality to text messages Brady sent his teammates

01:26pre-game. Instead of pumping up his Tampa Bay Bucs teammates on the practice field before the big

01:32game, Tom Brady texted them beforehand, usually late at night. As running back Leonard Fournette

01:37revealed to WEEI Sports Radio Network,

01:40"...he was texting us at 11 o'clock at night, we will win this game."

01:45So how exactly did Brady's teammates react to his positive mantra? Fournette explained,

01:50"...it felt great, just knowing his resume and understand why he wins.

01:55All week he made us believe we were going to win, we believed in him,

01:59we believed in the play calling, what the coaches were calling, and we just ran with it."

02:03And Brady wasn't just setting the team's intentions to win before facing off against

02:07the Kansas City Chiefs. As it turns out, he was also helpful with game strategizing.

02:13Tom Brady had specific strategies to share via text as well. For example,

02:18Fournette said that Brady reminded him that their opponent ranked poorly in one performance category

02:23in particular, yards after contact, so that was a weakness they should utilize to their advantage.

02:29Fournette continued,

02:30Tom preached all week. Kansas City were 31st in the league in yards after contact,

02:35yards after the catch, too. Their run defense wasn't that good.

02:39I take pride in that, knowing those guys don't want to tackle. Sometimes you make a guy miss,

02:44but at the same time, punch them in the mouth and then at the end of the game,

02:48they are not going to want to tackle, and that is exactly what happened.

02:52Tom Brady is also known for pumping up his teammates before big games with motivational videos,

02:57and he did just that before the Tampa Bay Bucs hit the field for Super Bowl 55. He released the

03:032021 video on his social media channels about five hours before kickoff. His message was short but

03:09powerful.

03:10In this journey, there is no final destination. There is only the next one. In the pursuit of

03:16perfection, the only thing that counts is the journey itself, the pursuit itself,

03:21and those who give their lives to it, this moment and the focus required to seize it,

03:25this fight and the commitment required to face it. The video continues,

03:30"...because there's no such thing as perfect. There is only the relentless pursuit of perfection.

03:35That is our cause. That is what makes us a team, and that is why we're still here.

03:40So once more into the fray, to live and die on this day."

03:44Brady ended his message with an enthusiastic,

03:47let's go. So was it those late-night texts, Brady's motivational video,

03:51or a Bucs team coming into their own that won them the trophy? Who can say,

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