Reincar, Doesn't look like Brady will be decaying anytime soon breh

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@Emperor_ReinScarf
http://www.si.com/nfl/2014/12/10/tom-brady-new-england-patriots-age-fitness

Here some highlights since it's a long read:

Guerrero challenged all of those notions. He showed Brady how the muscles in his forearm had, through lifting weights, become short and stiff and how that led to soreness when he threw. Together they worked to make those muscles longer and more flexible -- "more like rubber bands," says Brady, "so I can throw thousands of footballs and not worry."


In essence, after the ACL recovery, Brady placed Guerrero in charge of the second half of his career. "God, what if LeBron James got what I got? What if he trained how I trained?" Brady asks. "He really could play forever."

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A Brady story: Charity football game for disabled children, circa 2009. Brady's charity. He's the quarterback. Fourth quarter comes, and he implores his teammates -- guys like retired tight end Christian Fauria -- to pick up the pace. Gotta catch that! Finish the route! So Fauria runs harder, pulls a hamstring and looks at Brady. "Calm the f--- down," he says. "You're the quarterback for both teams."

Brady can eat all the vegetable ice cream he wants, but what drives him, what pushes him to play forever, existed long before. Brady is new age in approach but old school in composition.

House and Brady work to refine less than 2 percent of the QB's overall skillset. That's it. The upper end of the upper end. Early on they ran Brady's throws through a three-dimensional motion analysis, studying his movement patterns (length of stride), timing (shoulder and hip separation) and the mechanical variables (eye level, release point). That provided a baseline.


After Brady's subpar 2013 season -- subpar by his standards, anyway -- they looked at ground-force production: how to shift his feet more quickly to create more torque and to boost his spin on shorter throws and his distance on longer ones. One exercise they added, the Fogel drill, forces Brady to shuffle his feet for 30 seconds while simulating throws to dozens of targets. This makes Brady plant and pass faster. It has helped his balance and led to gains, even at 37, in his ability to deliver on the move.

"Tom is pushing back the aging process," says House. "There's no reason he can't do at 45 what he did at 25."

He meets with Belichick three times a week to talk over the gameplan -- every coverage, every hot read, every play. He summons his backups an hour before the Saturday team meetings and goes over the entire call sheet, typically between 100 and 110 plays. Twice. He asks the QBs to arrive an hour early on gameday, too, then goes over everything again. Twice. "He has a great memory from all that," says Bill O'Brien, once Brady's offensive coordinator, now the coach of the Texans. "He can remember from eight years ago: left hash, toward the lighthouse, third play of the game. ... We'll look it up. He's always right."

If every player is competitive, and most quarterbacks are meticulous, here's what makes Brady different: that approach, where traditional Chinese philosophy and advanced sports medicine meet a quarterback willing to try anything in order to play forever. The avocado ice cream approach to football, basically.

Take that diet. It's seasonal, which means he eats certain things in the winter that are considered "hot property" foods, like red meat. In the summer, when it's time for "cold property" foods, his diet is mostly raw. He subscribes to the 80-20 theory -- but it's not 80 percent healthy food, 20 percent unhealthy. It's 80 percent alkaline, 20 percent acidic. The idea, he says, is "to maintain balance and harmony through my metabolic system." That's why teammates always see him with hummus, raw snack bars packed with nutrients and what one teammate calls "that birdseed s---." This is the same guy who once ate Christmas breakfast with the Evans family and quietly picked all the sausage out from his omelet.

Take his sleep patterns. Brady struggles to unwind after games and practices. He's still processing, thinking about what's next. So they added cognitive exercises at night to destimulate his brain, allowing him to get to sleep by 9 p.m. and wake up without an alarm.

Take his workouts. Brady does them on land, in sand, in water. He hardly ever lifts weights but works mainly with resistance bands.

Then there's the brain resiliency program. Brady underwent a battery of tests and a neuroscan a few years back, then had a program created to work out his brain the way he worked out his body. The various exercises help Brady to more quickly process information between plays, read defenses and make adjustments. They assist with his memory. They increase his peripheral vision and how far he can see downfield. "The body is a whole system," says Brady, "and that includes the brain. I'm lucky I haven't had many concussions -- maybe one I can remember. I'm training for if that happens. I'm building resiliency and staying sharp. I feel like that's really where my edge is."

"If we can keep his processing speed this high," says Guerrero, "then I don't care if he's 48."

The by-product of all this: Brady is faster and stronger than on the day he was drafted. He doesn't care if you believe that. "I am," he says. "I'm more durable, too. But given where I started, I wouldn't say that like it's some great accomplishment."

at this story

Brady has refused to cede any reps in practice, even handoffs. He told Cassel and Brian Hoyer (a Patriot from 2009 to '11), "That's how I got my job." When Rodney Harrison played with Brady, the safety showed up at 6:40 a.m. to lift weights. "Good afternoon," Brady said to him. So the next day Harrison showed up at 6:30. "Good afternoon." Then 6:20. Then 6:10. Then 6. "Good afternoon" each time, until Harrison finally said, "Screw you, Tom. I'm not coming in any earlier."

 

[ill]

Thats my Gawd QB.

 

[triplehate]

That's a Lance Armstrong-like work ethic

 

[Lakerman0834]

rice, Brady, Kobe all multiple championships long career and all put in hours of hard work.. If only this pathetic generation realized hard work pays off

 

[Maluma]

rice, Brady, Kobe all multiple championships long career and all put in hours of hard work.. If only this pathetic generation realized hard work pays off

lmao @ lumping kobe in with rice and brady. stans gonna stan.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

believing anything from Riencar

 

[K-Apps]

believing anything from Riencar

Lol I was mostly trolling him for that idiotic thread he made about Brady decaying in skill, obviously that won't happen till the AFC East actually catches up to the Patriots.

 

[godkiller]

Bills should start Manuel next year.

 

[cook]

@Emperor_ReinScarf :bradyumad:

 

[K-Apps]

Bills should start Manuel next year.

Well he's gonna have to beat out Orton in camp and also he's probably gonna be learning a new offense because their is no way terrible ass Nate Hackett can stay as our OC. Marrone is a question mark to return when the Bills miss the playoffs, I'm hoping he is gone, because he is a conservative coach with no creativity or understanding of in-game coaching.

 

[godkiller]

Well he's gonna have to beat out Orton in camp and also he's probably gonna be learning a new offense because their is no way terrible ass Nate Hackett can stay as our OC. Marrone is a question mark to return when the Bills miss the playoffs, I'm hoping he is gone, because he is a conservative coach with no creativity or understanding of in-game coaching.

But the D is dominant right now. Is Marrone not a defensive coach? The team is a QB away from the playoffs. I think EJ should start regardless. Orton is not the answer. Whaley needs to draft a QB this year too.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Id think all athletes were like this

 

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But the D is dominant right now. Is Marrone not a defensive coach? The team is a QB away from the playoffs. I think EJ should start regardless. Orton is not the answer. Whaley needs to draft a QB this year too.

Marrone was the OC from the Saints from 06-08 before he became the coach at Syracuse. He's suppose to a O-Line guru due to being a former O-Lineman and being a O-Line coach with the Jets, but our O-Line is one of the big reason our offense sucks along with Hackett's terrible play calling. D-Line and LB corps has been good mostly because Marrone hired Pettine and then Schwartz when Pettine took the Browns coach and both run the defense. A lot people believe the conservative, screen and underneath heavy game plan is Marrone's doing. I knew Marrone/Hackett were shyt when they made Watkins a decoy vs Pats because they shook because of the Revis match-up. I doubt they draft a QB this year, Bills need to fix their O-Line with Guards and Tackles and we need a big TE because Chandler is just ok.

 

[Darts]

"bu bu but Brady is just a 'system' QB...that's why he's so good"

 

[MikelArteta]