Reacting to Tom Brady saying we 'need better QB play' on social media 👀 | First Take 

Brady wasn’t talking about only this incident, he was also talking about how Minshew throwing hospital passes all game.

that's why Brady threw tons of quick out route to his receivers. The middle of the field is to be respected if they got hard hitting linebackers there. Usually throw to the middle of the field if there's only one linebacker in coverage.

Early on I used to get mad at Tom sometimes for throwing the ball in certain spots, but i realized that he tried to minimize dangerous hits on his receivers

Fans of the sport can agree based off the throws these QBs are making.

Crazy, 15 years ago that Kazee hit would've been a normal play for the Defense, especially for a Steeler.

Tom never threw over the middle against Men like Ray Lewis who would lay out your Receiver or Tightend and Tom is absolutely right about Quarterback play today

Yeah this is 100% BS I agree with Brady.

Facts! Brady on point with his take.

I like seeing hard hits, I don't like seeing dangerous hits that could leave dudes paralyzed. There's a difference. But Brady is right, QBS need to take some accountability for things like this. I mean it was just always understood, you're taking a big chance throwing over the middle of the field, that's where the safeties and linebackers make their money and there used to be so many big hitters who could do serious damage to you if you did it. Ray Lewis. Brian Dawkins. Ronnie Lott. Those type of guys. So if you're gonna put a ball out there, it's gotta be in the numbers, so your guy has a chance to make a clean catch and continue momentum in the direction of travel OR he can make a possession catch and give himself to the ground to avoid a hit. It's just the nature of these routes over the middle of the field. Crossing routes. Dig routes. Posts. Etc. By the time the ball is on them, both the receiver and defender in the area are up to full speed trying to play the ball. When they collide, sparks fly usually lol. I don't wanna see the sport continue devolving into two hand touch but I don't wanna see needless injuries either. I think the league is trying it's best to find that balance. The aspect of it that annoys me is that the offensive players are already getting a lot of advantages over the defense, and it feels a bit one sided. Lock down, physical defense is a thing of beauty and my favorite thing to watch in football.

Man....I love to hear Shannon and Jeff talk about football on this show

It’s crazy that “the ownness for the safety of the offensive player is on the defensive player” that’s wild. Brady is correct, the ownness is on the QB for their guys safety!

The problem is it’s like they are trying to get rid of defense. His job is to tackle and not let that man catch the ball. Is he supposed to let him catch the ball? I’m not sure what else he could do to actually do is job

we need to judge a qb by how smart they are not by their physical gifts

James Harrison and Ryan Clark would be getting kicked out of games and giving the NFL their money on a regular basis if they were playing today.

Love this new Tom.

“protect yourself at all times”. tom is right. it’s the offensive players job to protect himself. not saying this hit wasn’t dangerous because it was but i don’t think all the blame should be on the defensive player. in live action, in a matter of seconds you have to react and tackle someone, sometimes players will get hit in the head and that’s just the nature of the game. you can’t expect a defensive player to be able to perfectly tackle someone every single time. it’s unrealistic. if that’s the case, they will need to play at jogging speed so things don’t happen so quickly and players can react to different movements.

Edelman probably at his house reading this like: “where was this when I was playing?” 😂

These QBs toss the ball into what Warren Sapp calls "Prime Real-Estate" territory like its sweet

Stephen A. said the smartest thing he literally ever said on all his time in television… “this is where I can’t stand where people who didn’t play the sport try to tell you like they know… tell me!” Now the thing is he just needs to apply that to literally all his takes and he’ll be alright.

If you remember watching Brady or Peyton, they would throw the ball low all the time. They would rather throw it into the ground then have their guy get lit up and fumble, or have the ball intercepted. At first you would wonder why they threw it there then you realized they were throwing to the safest spot.

TY Saturday and Sharpe for the football insights

These rules suck. You can't even hit a guy with a shoulder now. So you're supposed to just let a guy catch the ball and not put a lick on him to stop a first down?? The guys on defense are playing with alot of restrictions now. Ronnie Lott , Steve Atwater, or Brian Dawkins couldn't even play in today's game. Might as well make it a touch football league at this point.

WOW. Tom Brady keeping it 💯 real. He makes a perfect point

That's something you learn even in HS. Although it's also on coaching, you run more hooks, quick outs, posts. Slants are great but if they are too strong inside and the QB can't hit them on point you can't do them. Also you'll see the best QBs often throw low, the WR goes to the ground where they aren't eating a hit, just getting touched down. They do that precisely because they don't want their WRs eating a hit. Where else is this defender supposed to hit? You're also taught to hit hard because it can break up the pass, causing an incompletion or fumble.

Deommodore Lenoirs HUGE HIT on D'Andre Swift is about the biggest legal hit you can have nowadays

“Let him catch the football” is crazy. Man it gets harder to watch football every year

Great segment.

I wish Brady wanted to coach - would love to follow that story. Maybe after his kids are in college someone might talk him into it, like Kraft.

Let him catch the ball.... this is where we are with this sport. Let the offensive player catch the ball. 🤢

Why don't people accept that the NFL is a violent game? If you don't like the hard hits then don't watch/play it. Defensive players can't do anything nowadays. They might as well play two hand touch. I agree with Tom Brady. Offensive players should get coached how to keep themselves safe.

Agree with TB12.

NFL GMs still haven't learned the following: (1) Do not pay a running QB. (2) If you draft a QB, then do not pay him until he wins a Super Bowl under his rookie contract (QBs should really be treated similar RBs, if the team is serious about Super Bowls).

As an Atlanta Falcons fan, he is spot on 😢😂

👍🏾👍🏾brady will always be my favorite player. He's exactly right

Sadly every tackle they just showed look completely fine. The NFL is ridiculous

I don’t like Brady, but he’s right. QBs play to get flags. This pass happy league dedicated to making every QB a star is hard to watch.

This is my favorite set! Love Jeff and unc on the same show. Stephen a is great too 👌👏

7:19 this is the real problem with today's game. Defenses are being handcuffed

Brady doesn’t say much when he said things ppl listen! Jeff outline well and show all the cards-good take!

The one and done college behavior will forever water down QB play and all around play for any position. Kids are getting into the NFL early and often who won't reach potential because they left college too early.

Football dosnt hit the same no more lol. Pun intended. But in all honesty, why do we even have defense anymore. Should just let them line up in 7 on 7

John Lynch and Sean Taylor could never play in today's game they wouldn't make it one half

This hit was one thing, but it seems odd to include his previous penalties in the logic of suspending him, because most of them were obviously clean hits.

I remember buying Sports Illustrated video tape called "NFL Crunch Course" when I was a little kid. Receivers were literally putting their lives on the line. D was never blamed back then.

Fully agree with Brady here.

They’re going to have the next generation of players not want to play defense because of how restricted and handicapped they are! The game is unbalanced AF!

Just get rid of the pads and play 7 on 7

It’s the rules. NFL claims they trying to protect players. But what they are actually doing is taking defense away and allowing the offense to be hands free. Everything from the QB slides and even telling the defense how to sack the QB. It’s ridiculous

Saturday got a lot of nerve coming from having a QB (Peyton) who constantly got his receivers killed

Is Jeff wearing mascara and eye liner? lmfao😂

I don’t think it was a dirty hit. It was hard but not dirty

That hit was so clean. I can’t believe they called it.

10:02 I understand the pressure the NFL is under implementing these rules. But Jeff is wrong asf, it’s not better for the sport. It’s killing the sport. The sport is becoming unrecognizable. If you’re wanting to keep players safe, tell them to stop playing football and find a new profession. Because football is supposed to be a violent sport.

this has been happening for a while this has started with lower level no one teaches fundamentals anymore

Ray Lewis. Ronnie Lott. Ryan Clark. James Harrison. Brian Dawkins. Ed Reed. Sean Taylor. Every one of these legends would be banned if they played today. That should speak volumes by itself.

I agree with Brady. We need better QBs (a farm league sponsored by the NFL would really help). However, as a former rugby player, I will never understand why NFL players are SCARED to make clean, safer and more effective wrap tackles even with all that armor on. It makes no sense to me. How to make a wrap tackle. (1) Move your head away from the target. (2) Use your shoulder to make contact with the target. Of course, you use the shoulder with the biggest angle with your head as it is turned away from the target. (3) Wrap your arms around your target. (4) Drive your target to the ground.

what nobody is considering is that your head sits on top of your shoulders. So even if you try to hit someone with your shoulder your head is going to get there FIRST. Trying to hit someone with your shoulder you run the risk of injuring yourself. Now in this particular case he had the time to adjust hit.

I feel the dbs should protest these calls by just letting the wide receivers catch the ball and not touch them at all and let the game just be a shoot out cause that's obviously what they want. Lets see how entertaining that will be.

7:00. It's ridiculous that football has changed so that a defensive player has to protect the offensive player receiving the ball. That needs to be on the quarterback. That's what made QBs elite. Now a QB can chuck a ball down the field and get a PI or poorly place the ball and get an unnecessary roughness call. Like Brady has said, it's a reward for poor QB play and it needs to stop. Football is made up of 3 sides; offense, defense, and special teams. Over the years, the rules have been changed to favor and empower offense to shine without worry. Special teams is now primed to allow more touchbacks and defenses can't do much without getting penalized.

Bruhh is he just supposed to let him catch it

There is one quarterback in particular that has uncanny accuracy and superb ball placement. His name is Brock Purdy.

I see none of them brought up the favt that all of his prior "history" the league revoked each one and stated rhey were wrong to fine him.

Brady is correct. QB's need to make sure their accuracy is on point. Pittman had to stretch out to catch that pass. Kazee launches his shoulder to dislodge the ball. Its tough but Kazee has a history! Adjust or pay the price!

@ 3:11 - Randy Moss often took plays off (and games off) when he played for the Vikings by displaying "Alligator Arms" when passes were thrown to him across the middle.

Ray Lewis and Ed Reed made Tom really good at defending his own guys from big hits.

Listen to him. He never threw in the middle when they play ray lewis because of this

Goat talk!

Someone needs to explain to me how Kazee is supposed to tackle a guy who is diving for the ball, and if he doesn't get hit, Pittman Jr. makes that catch. Ultimately, I don't blame the league; I blame the players. One thing I know about any company, they don't like to lose money, and when the older players started suing the NFL, you better believe the NFL was going to take some of these hits out of the game. But, again, how is Kazee or any other defender supposed to dislodge the receiver and the football? That used to be part of the game, but that is quickly becoming officiated out of the league.

Hits during the Dallas & Buffalo games more warranted fines or 1 game suspensions. This hit was just bad luck and the DB even tried to use his shoulder instead of his helmet. Better play calling is definitely the problem. The flats are nearly always open, diving after coming across the middle is asking to get them to get killed

Just letting him catch the football as a defender is crazy smh.

Funny enough the person people have called a check down artist, Brock Purdy, is playing some of the most fundamentally sound football in the league. He’s reminding the football world that for decades you didn’t need to be a run-first qb and that accurate processing and clean pocket passing will win you games

Most of those plays they showed by Kazee looked like clean hits to me haha

Can we all agree that while the rules are leaning way too far towards helping offenses, players need to stop trying to make tackles leaning their heads first

League && analysts soft af nowadays 💯

Yea, I'm going with Tom, you media softies tell what NFL wants you to tell.

Lamar Jackson tries all his might to protect his receivers

Wow that's crazy

Saturday changed my mind

Just cuz the money inflated, doesn’t mean the sports bigger. Football ain’t the same.

tell that to Welker or Edleman.......LMFAO

Why does Jeff Saturday have the dreamy eyes??? Maybe it's Maybelline.. 😂😂🤣🤣🤣

If a QB demands his WRs attention by throwing them the ball he must not leave them vulnerable to the defender in which he distracted them from.

you hit me like that we fighting as soon as i can walk again

While I agree with what Brady says, he let PLENTY of his guys get CREAMED out there. Easier said than done…especially when Brady had plenty of time to throw the football

imagine saying "he's extending for the ball so let him catch it then touch him down." Yeah just let them win. Just let them have a huge play. Who wants a superbowl? Not you. Just let him catch it because as a defender, you have to take offensive players safety into account. Absolutely ridiculous and utterly moronic. I mean what a joke this sport has become.

There's about to be no defense allowed!

Wes Welker has like 13,000 concussions 😂

Exactly I've been saying this all season seems like the qb's are weaker all of a sudden

"You're gonna get hit any way, so you might as well catch the ball." Drew Pearson

Sooo, I guess the answer is... He should have let WR get the positive yard completion and then touched him to make sure he was down by contact. I wonder how many OC's would make plays for guaranteed yards by telling their WR's to stretch out to make sure they don't get hit or get a guaranteed penalty for a first down and suspending a key defensive player. Hmm...🤔🙄

8:00 sounds like a familiar stat....

So basically WRs if you are watching just make all of your catches look awkward and the defense should let you catch them👌🏾

Pittman didn’t get hit with the helmet. He got hit with the shoulder. The NFL has gone too far and too soft. Need to go back to how defense was played in the 70’s 80’s and 90’s

The goat has spoken.

Maybe change the rule to - If the defender COULD have lit the receiver up but chose not to, it’s an incomplete pass. Would that make everyone happy?

Brady be at the TV LIKE IN THE HUDDLE 😂

A defenders job is to break up the completion, this is football, a collision is how a defender breaks up the play. That's literally his job.

The stat about what percent of the league commits these personal fouls sounds skewed. Starting defensive backs are the main culprits and make up 5-6 percent of the roster

Seeing how Tom Brady was a game controller and not aiming for big yards , I respect his words. Why would you put ya WR’s in a bad spot and on top of it defenders are aiming for kill shots cause the 99 percent is a bunch of weirdos who wana be entertained and work a job they hate

Why didn’t the league make players sign waivers since they’re playing a violent games