We’ve all heard about the “Patriot Way,” and that is a big reason why the team has been so successful over the years.
According to former Pats Asante Samuel, though, the Patriots Way isn’t real, and players who believe it are brainwashed and company men.
While speaking with the I Am An Athlete podcast, the Super Bowl champ says.
“Some of them [were] brainwashed with that Patriot Way. I’m not going for none of that. I don’t know what no Patriot Way is,”
“All of them [were] company men, talking about Patriot Way,” said Samuel. “I don’t know none of that. I’m here to get money, take care of my family, the same way Belichick is here to take care of his family, get his money. So when you try to hold my money back and you want all your money, I [have] no respect for you.”
Wonder if others think the same thing as him.
What exactly is the so-call Patriots Way.
“Look, the way Bill coaches is the ‘Patriot Way’ and for 20 years, they had Tom Brady to embody that philosophy perfectly,” he told Boston.com. “The way that Bill coaches his team to be putting the team first, not selfish, doing what’s best for the team, putting the team’s goals in front of your own personal goals. That was Tom Brady. He was able to do that for 20 years.
“I get players sometimes, they start to lose the concepts of look, ‘We’re the ones out here making the catches and the tackles and all the things that win you the football game,’ but the way Bill coaches the team is the ‘Patriot Way.’”
Brady, the most successful player pro football has ever seen, was the on-field embodiment of the Patriots’ system. Brady took popular slogans such as “Do your job!” or “No days off!” — both of which coined by Bill Belichick, by the way — to heart and molded a Hall of Fame career around them.
Accordingly, one ex-Patriot called Brady “the face of the Patriot Way.”
“To me, if somebody asks me, who embodies and who is the face of the Patriot Way, kind of hard to argue the point that it’s Tom Brady,” long-time offensive tackle Matt Light said during a recent appearance on the Dan Patrick Show.
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