When the GOAT gives a critique of the game of football you take notes on what the GOAT says about the game of football.

Here's Tom Brady on why the NFL has become so mediocre at a time when, in this writer's opinion, the talent is at an all-time high.

I'll hand the mic over to Tom:

I think there's a lot of mediocrity in today's NFL. I don't see the excellence that I saw in the past. I think the coaching isn't as good as it was; I don't think the development of young players is as good as it was; the rules have allowed a lot of bad habits to get into the actual performance of the game. So I just think the product, in my opinion, is less than what it's been.

I look at a lot of players like Ray Lewis and Rodney Harrison and Ronnie Lott and guys that impacted the game in a certain way and every hit they would've made would've been a penalty. Your coach is complaining about their own player being tackled and not necessarily — why don't they talk to their player about how to protect themselves? We used to work on the fundamentals of those things all the time. Now they're trying to be regulated all the time. Offensive players need to protect themselves. It's not up to the defensive player to protect the offensive player. A defensive player needs to protect himself.

Penalties. The NFL is riddled with penalties, and the big game-changing ones are usually against the defense for some hard hit or whatever. To me, there's absolutely no entertainment value when a team fails to make a first down, somehow draws a flag, and then the ball is moved 15 yards closer to the end zone giving them a fresh set of downs and a chance to win the game.

Sure, it's more offense — more points, possibly — and that's exciting, but to see teams get bailed out time and time again just doesn't seem fair. And the way they beg for penalties these days is crazy, and I hate it.

That's partially on Tom, however, who was the king of complaining for the penalty flag.

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