It doesn’t matter how many Super Bowl MVPs or supermodel wives he’s had, it’s still easy to make fun of Tom Brady.
His decision to crumble in the pocket and avoid hits is the latest silo detractors are firing to billow out his “soft” tag. He’s just not bothered by it.
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“Some of it is knowing the journey is over and going down and not taking a ... you know you stand in there and take a huge hit and look tough and then be out for four games and not help your team win,” Brady said, per Boston.com. “It’s a long season and I think you’ve got to try to be smart about which ones you take and which ones you don’t.
“You’d love to stand in there every throw and step into it and get blown up and act like it’s no big deal, but I think sometimes those things do end up being big hits.”
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Brady’s “tough-guy” image has taken more hits than he has in the pocket. Admittedly, most of it was self-inflicted.
Whether it was on the dance floor …
The childish manner he went down a slide …
And here's Tom Brady going down a water slide #NewEnglandPatriots pic.twitter.com/M9XMpTanGE
— Mary Jancovich (@MJancovich33) February 1, 2015
Or his inability to give a “manly” hi-five …
Yay! Hi-five clap hands I'm Tom Brady lmao pic.twitter.com/SnLVbv8K6q
— Usef Hassouneh (@Usef_Hassouneh) November 4, 2013
Brady isn’t exactly in the business of emulating Dirty Harry.
Then again, with four Super Bowl rings and Gisele Bundchen by his side, it’s not as if he cares.
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Yay! Hi-five clap hands I'm Tom Brady lmao pic.twitter.com/SnLVbv8K6q
— Usef Hassouneh (@Usef_Hassouneh) November 4, 2013
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