Tom Brady gushed about Aaron Rodgers
"Whenever he's on, I usually stay up and watch."
It’s no secret that Tom Brady touts a strict sleeping schedule as part of his very regimented lifestyle: in bed by 8:30 p.m. and up by 5:30 a.m. — without an alarm. So, what’s the one thing that will tempt the 39-year-old to push his bedtime back a few hours later?
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
“I think he does things that no one in the league has ever done or can do, just because of his physical ability,” Brady said in a recent radio interview with WEEI. “Some of the plays he makes are just phenomenal. I always love watching his tape and admiring all the things that he can do because I can’t do many of those things. He’s had an incredible season.”
Brady continued to laud Rodgers’s “effortless style” when it comes to the velocity and placement of the ball.
“The is definitely working hard, but he’s making hard look easy,” he said.
The Packers are currently riding an eight-game win streak, highlighted by a 34-31 upset over the top-seeded Cowboys to advance to the NFC title game. Over the course of the regular season, Rodgers threw for 4,428 yards and a league-high 40 touchdowns.
“I always love watching him play,” Brady said. “Whenever he’s on, I usually stay up and watch just because I love watching him play.”
If both the Patriots and Packers win their respective conference championships on Sunday, the two No. 12’s will go head to head in the Super Bowl on Feb. 5.
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