Even 45-year-old Tom Brady seems struck by the ‘bad football’ around the NFL

At the moment, through four weeks of the 2022 NFL season, there is just one undefeated team — the 4-0 Philadelphia Eagles. Then you have a logjam of 3-1 squads like the Bills, Cowboys, Packers, Dolphins, Chiefs, Vikings, and Giants.

Here’s where it gets messy: 15 (!) NFL teams are in football purgatory at 2-2 right now. In other words, that’s 15 teams where we’re not sure how good (or bad) they are.

For future First-Ballot Hall of Famer Tom Brady — even he seems to be surprised by the amount of mediocre football being played around the NFL. You know the league isn’t playing well overall if a 23-year veteran, who has been there and done that, doesn’t think highly of the current product:

Tom Brady was asked about the parity in the NFL with so many teams currently 2-2. "I think there's a lot of bad football from what I watch. I watch a lot of bad football. Poor quality of football. That's what I see."

( @Buccaneers) pic.twitter.com/iCsBR2TYe3

— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) October 6, 2022

Woof, Brady certainly didn’t mince his words. Let’s rewind that quote:

“I think there’s a lot of bad football from what I watch. I watch a lot of bad football. Poor quality of football. That’s what I see.”

Indeed, while we might have a clear idea of the true Super Bowl contenders, there’s a big glut of squads not worth writing home about. And one final word to the wise to the experienced Brady, not that I have to remind him: His struggling Buccaneers are one of those middling 2-2 teams.

Though, given Brady’s high standard of play — I’m sure his less-than-flattering comments were about his own team, on some level, too.