Tom Brady seems to need a crisis as special motivation for the next Super Bowl win. So privately and athletically, the perfect situation to adorn the ring finger of his left hand with a ring again. A comment.

Wife gone, team lost the top of the table. Plus three games in a row as losers off the pitch! Tom Brady is being written into the super duper mega crisis again, a crisis like never before. The biggest crisis of all time.

Yes, perhaps it has never happened before, that the star quarterback has lost three games in a row or five of the past six games. Yes, his personal problems are probably not insignificant for the sporting slump.

But if there is one thing we should have learned from the past, it is that Tom Brady always comes back stronger from crises.

Tom Brady first written off in 2014

Brief look at the past:

2014 New England Patriots. Game 4. 14:41 against the Kansas City Chiefs. Not Patrick Mahomes at the time. It was Alex Smith. Brady with 159 passing yards. Gave up after the second interception – a pick six. For Jimmy Garoppolo.

Brady is written into the ground. Too old. Too slow. No longer fit for the modern NFL. It’s 2014.

Brady’s answer: 7 straight wins, 13 out of next 15 games – including Super Bowl win over Seattle Seahawks.

Loss to the Detroit Lions

2018 New England Patriots. Game 3. 10-26 loss to the Detroit Lions. Lions.

It’s the second loss. A record of 1-2. Plus the loss to “Big Dick” Nick Foles in the preseason Super Bowl. Again, the usual. Too old, his style of play out of fashion, just can’t keep up with the young mobile quarterbacks.

Brady’s answer: 6 straight wins, 13 wins out of next 16 games – including Super Bowl win over Los Angeles Rams.

2019. out in the Wild Card Game against the Tennessee Titans. His last pass as quarterback of the New England Patriots lands in the hands of the opponent. The end of his time in New England.

2020 Signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 7-5 after 12 games, losses to the Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs. Clear: Too old, too immobile, no longer adapted to the modern NFL.

Brady’s answer: Eight straight wins – including a Super Bowl victory over champion Kansas City Chiefs.

Tom Brady a positive madman

Clearly, Brady has always had the accompanying circumstances, be it teammates on offense, supporting defense or even that little bit of luck on his side.

Sure, Brady is 45 years old now, his body battered from 23 years in the NFL. But that was said in 2014, 2018 and 2020.

Tom Brady is a crazy man. Positively crazy. Obsessed with success, obsessed with making the most of all situations. And he’s proven he does it best when he’s in a perceived slump, when no one thinks he can do it anymore.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers squad has quality

The lost game against the Baltimore Ravens also shows that it’s not all Brady’s fault.

The offensive line – also due to numerous injuries and departures – is no longer of the quality of the Super Bowl season. The wide receivers are dropping balls like Tom Brady and probably not used to from Chris Godwin, Mike Evans and Julio Jones.

The defence has not been able to keep the opponents in check for a long time, not to mention dominance like in the 2020 playoffs. Nevertheless, the quality is still there.

And Brady has also proven several times that he makes his teammates better. Brady’s time is not September, not October. It doesn’t have to be.

His time is December, January. Nobody talks about crises then. Because that’s when Brady is always at his most dangerous.

The NFL should prepare itself for that. And especially his critics.