Logan Ryan Believes On-Field And Off-The-Field Issues Were “Weighing On” Tom Brady
June 29th, 2023
Considering former Bucs safety/corner Logan Ryan and Tom Brady have been good friends, even volunteering together with their families at the Humane Society of Tampa Bay last year, Joe considers this Brady commentary quite credible.
Ryan, 32, played with Brady in New England and in Tampa last season. He’s currently a free agent and made a visit to the The Herd set on FS1 this week.
Ryan thinks the Bucs ended an era last season in multiple ways. And he was willing to say Brady was affected negatively by his off-field feelings during the 2022 season. Not a lot of Bucs or former Bucs have gone there publicly.
“Tampa was only built for so long in terms of the amount of veterans, the amount of money being spent, the amount of weapons on that side of the ball for Brady,” Ryan said. “So there was some finality in the season.”
“But I think just knowing how he was interacting with his family, his kids, in terms of really wanting to spend time with his kids and be there with his kids, that was a little different. Because his kids were older. I think the stuff that was going on off the field and on the field I think was weighing on him a little bit, as obviously we’re all humans. So I knew that there was going to be some type of break after the season. Now whether that be return or not, he wouldn’t tell me.”
Joe is not going to rehash 2022 Brady here, but the Bucs only scored 18 points per game with The Goat at quarterback and at least solid weapons around him.
Despite an extra regular-season game on the schedule, last year’s Bucs scored just three more touchdowns than the bumbling 2014 Bucs with Josh McCown and Mike Glennon sharing quarterback duties behind one of the worst Tampa Bay offensive lines ever assembled. And don’t forget the offensive coordinator that has never returned to the NFL.
Something was holding Brady back last season. For the sake of the 2023 Bucs, hopefully it was Brady himself and fired offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich.
June 29th, 2023 at 3:01 pm
Offensive Line and Offensive Coordinator were definitely “issues” last year
June 29th, 2023 at 3:07 pm
I concur.
June 29th, 2023 at 3:12 pm
Play Calling was the primary issue. Secondarily it’s a tie between oline play and Brady’s physical limits at age 45.
June 29th, 2023 at 3:13 pm
Everyone wants to blame Bowles for everything. Realistically, Lefty and Brady were the key reasons for the offense being off last year.
June 29th, 2023 at 3:32 pm
I’ve been saying for a while that Brady just appeared disinterested, especially as the season wore on. It looked like to me that he just wanted the season to be over so he could call it a day. Football must have seemed small with all of the personal things he was going through. Understandable.
June 29th, 2023 at 3:36 pm
DUH! All mental! Plus a little physical because of the mental toll a devoice takes on a person!
June 29th, 2023 at 3:38 pm
Good Grief.
June 29th, 2023 at 3:40 pm
Was it credible when he went on Va Ca in the middle of camp!?
June 29th, 2023 at 4:00 pm
Credit to JL and company for somehow managing to provide us with a young and VERY talented core for this season and the foreseeable future.
Surly Trask or perhaps Baker can’t be any worse than Brady was last year.
June 29th, 2023 at 4:30 pm
I blame it all in the toddler we had calling plays.
If a Canales type of guy who recognized this with his star QB, no way in Hell he doesn’t strive to make football fun, and pour every ounce of brilliance into calling plays for the greatest to ever do it.
If that was spongeBob’s effort he is truly dumb.
June 29th, 2023 at 4:44 pm
Joe posts. “: Logan Ryan Believes On-Field And Off-The-Field Issues Were “Weighing On” Tom Brady”
DUH!!!!!!!!!
June 29th, 2023 at 4:57 pm
Good grief. A devastating divorce will take a man to his knees. No eating, and no sleeping. Then a busted offensive line, to boot.
And a Swiss cheese secondary took it over the top. Just ask the cowboys who they’d like to play 24-7-365.
June 29th, 2023 at 5:13 pm
Off-field issues=weak minds.
June 29th, 2023 at 5:14 pm
Infomepleas. Duh ? You must be a Brady fan he don’t get a pass from me now you can say it was his age. But the question I have is this no body has given Devin White a pass last season when he had games he didn’t play well when he lost his dad . So why Brady gets a pass??? Oh I know because he’s Brady and he is the only player that went through a divorce in the history of the NFL. Even though he was the one who chose football over keeping his family together. And plus you talking about a sport that he had nothing else to prove he’s a first ballet hall of famer. No excuses for Brady!!!
June 29th, 2023 at 5:19 pm
@ Cobra Boy
Off field issues = human minds.
June 29th, 2023 at 5:43 pm
You don’t think other players have issues going on? It’s just that their whole life isn’t put on blast for the world to see.
June 29th, 2023 at 5:50 pm
And, Brady ain’t just another player.
June 29th, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Brady & Lefty deserve all the credit for 18 ppg. Been a Bucs fan forever, and watching that offense last year was painful.
June 29th, 2023 at 6:04 pm
@Smashsquatch. What about the OL? It’s just Leftwich and Brady’s fault that the OL was one of the worse in the league. We had the worse running game in the league last year. Is that on Leftwich that the OL couldn’t block? There was a confluence of issues that affected the offense. It’s not fair to put it all on Leftwich and Brady.
June 29th, 2023 at 6:06 pm
Again why no one gave Devin White a pass when he lost his dad last year ?? So if you don’t give him a pass than Brady definitely ain’t getting a pass at least from me . Brady can one day reckconsal with his wife Devin White will never see his dad again on the earth.
June 29th, 2023 at 6:07 pm
It’s unfair to blame Leftwich. It wasn’t his fault that the GM left him with a new LG and C. Both of them have never taken a snap in the field. Why has the GM been giving a pass?
June 29th, 2023 at 6:09 pm
Buc13. Brady was the least sacked quarterback in the NFL last year !! I know one thing Baker Mayfield or Kyle Trask will get the excuses Brady gets if they played like Brady did last year.
June 29th, 2023 at 6:14 pm
@Oneil. You’re either an idiot or a troll. He had the fastest release in the league! That’s why the sack total was low. Anyone with eyes know that the OL was bad. Joe Thomas is a HOF OL and he said the OL was bad. Are you gonna say you know more than Joe Thomas. The run game was also the worse in the history. The OL doesn’t get any blame for that?
June 29th, 2023 at 6:28 pm
@Elita: shed a tear for me.
Every human has “issues”; pros perform despite.
June 29th, 2023 at 6:34 pm
@Cobraboy. Brady has gone through many adversaries in the past. He’s long been known as one of the mentally tough people in the league. He won a SB against Atlanta while his mom suffered through breast cancer 1,000 miles away. No one had a clue about it until after the season! He also had Deflategate. And during the Bucs SB year both his parents were sick and hospitalized with Covid. No one knew about it until after the season. People are making assertions about his personal life and they have no clue how it might have affected him. Ryan also said on field issues were bothering him too.
June 29th, 2023 at 6:50 pm
Most of us recognized that Brady wasnt all in last season. Too bad noone on the team was willing to address these issues last season at OBP.
June 29th, 2023 at 7:05 pm
Buc13. I know everyone is called a troll and a hater when speaking the truth about Brady if it’s bad . Again this will be the same o line this year other than 1 player I want to hear the same excuses for Baker Mayfield or Kyle Trask. All that talk about his release don’t mean nothing bro. It was a lot of times where Brady held the ball and dump it to a runningback. Brady didn’t want to get hit anymore. But again I want to hear the same excuses for Baker Mayfield or Kyle Trask that Brady got . I don’t want to hear they can’t read defenses faster enough I want to hear the same excuses for them like y’all gave Brady .
June 29th, 2023 at 7:07 pm
Buc13. So are you willing to give Devin White a pass because he lost his dad last year???
June 29th, 2023 at 7:23 pm
@ Coraboy
Pros are humans too
June 29th, 2023 at 7:25 pm
Line wasn’t great though Brady led league in lowest sack percentage and also led in attempts. Offensive coordinator was same one since 2019… biggest difference is Brady constantly audibling to smoke screens and being content throwing checkdowns instead of challenging teams downfield until the 4th quarter. Our biggest culprit is gone. Brady. He was bad last season.
June 29th, 2023 at 7:52 pm
I think it appeared pretty clear that he had a lot of issues he was dealing with. If he had Gronk out there. If he had Bruce on the sidelines, it might have been a bit easier. But he didn’t.
June 29th, 2023 at 7:54 pm
@Brandon. I love how you left out 20’ and 21’. Just 2019, huh? You’re acting like Brady was a bum his entire time with the team. Anyone with eyes knows the OL was bad. You’re stuck on audibles and screens. You have zero proof to back up your claim about audibles. Moreover, screens have always been a staple in BA’s offense. Hines Ward and Larry Fitzgerald lived off of those screens. We threw a lot screens in 2020 and 2021. I bet you absolutely hated when we won the SB. It totally defeated the narrative you had about Brady before he joined the team. A so-called fan actively rooting against the team because they don’t like a certain player is lame.
June 29th, 2023 at 8:11 pm
@Elita: Pros who allow distractions to materially affect their craft are bad pros.
You have never been a pro so you have no idea.
Injuries are one thing. Mental weakness is another.
Pros can compartmentalize. Or should.
June 29th, 2023 at 8:13 pm
ONeilBuc
Last time I am writing this on the website. ALL THE BRADY HATERS HERE IS THE TRUTH. DO YOU PEOPLE NOT GET BRADY DIDNT WANT TO PLAY FOR BUCS. HE DIDNT WANT TO PLAY FOR TAMPA. GISELE HATED TAMPE AND SHE REFUSED TO EVEN LIVE IN TAMPA IN THE 2021 SEASON WHEN THINGS WERE STILL GOOD WITH THEM. GISELE HATED LIVING IN BOSTON 2. BRADY FAKE RETIRED. HIS CLOSE FRIEND IS BRUCE BEAL.HIS BEST FRIENDS ARE JEFFREY SOFFER DAVID GRUTMAN. DO YOU BUCS FAN KNOW THESE BILLIONAIRES. THEY ARE THE BIGGEST THING GOING ON IN MIAMI. I AM SURE YOU ALL SAW MR BEAST VIDEO. THAT SHIP IS JEFF SOFFERS. THAT SAME SHIP BRADY JUST TOOK TO GREECE ON VACATION. BUCS HELD BRADY HOSTAGE LAST SEASON. SO GO WATCH BRADYS LAST SEASON IN 2019 SAME AS LAST YR IN TAMPA. BRADY DIDNT WANT TO BE IN EITHER PLACED AND JUST COASTED TO THE FINISH LINE WHILE HIS PERSONAL LIFE WAS DISCUSSED DAILY BY THE TABLOIDS. BRADY DEALT WITH FTX COLLAPSE AND INCOMPETITENT COACHING AND TERRIBLE PLAYERS. EVANS WAS SLOW AND DROPPED PLENTY. BRADY NEVER HAD A COSISTANT WR GROUP ALL YEAR. GODWIN WAS EITHER HURT DROPPED THE BALL OR FUMBLED LAST YEAR. LAST IN THE LEAGUE RUNNING GAME.
AT THIS POINT GISELE HATED BRADY BUT STILL SHE SAID THIS “It was tough, but you know what? Let’s just be honest. It’s a team sport and you can’t play alone,” she told Vanity Fair. “I think he did great under the circumstances that he had,” she added before noting that “he had no offensive line.”
June 29th, 2023 at 8:15 pm
Last time I am writing this on the website. ALL THE BRADY HATERS HERE IS THE TRUTH. DO YOU PEOPLE NOT GET BRADY DIDNT WANT TO PLAY FOR BUCS. HE DIDNT WANT TO PLAY FOR TAMPA. GISELE HATED TAMPE AND SHE REFUSED TO EVEN LIVE IN TAMPA IN THE 2021 SEASON WHEN THINGS WERE STILL GOOD WITH THEM. GISELE HATED LIVING IN BOSTON 2. BRADY FAKE RETIRED. HIS CLOSE FRIEND IS BRUCE BEAL.HIS BEST FRIENDS ARE JEFFREY SOFFER DAVID GRUTMAN. DO YOU BUCS FAN KNOW THESE BILLIONAIRES. THEY ARE THE BIGGEST THING GOING ON IN MIAMI. I AM SURE YOU ALL SAW MR BEAST VIDEO. THAT SHIP IS JEFF SOFFERS. THAT SAME SHIP BRADY JUST TOOK TO GREECE ON VACATION. BUCS HELD BRADY HOSTAGE LAST SEASON. SO GO WATCH BRADYS LAST SEASON IN 2019 SAME AS LAST YR IN TAMPA. BRADY DIDNT WANT TO BE IN EITHER PLACED AND JUST COASTED TO THE FINISH LINE WHILE HIS PERSONAL LIFE WAS DISCUSSED DAILY BY THE TABLOIDS. BRADY DEALT WITH FTX COLLAPSE AND INCOMPETITENT COACHING AND TERRIBLE PLAYERS. EVANS WAS SLOW AND DROPPED PLENTY. BRADY NEVER HAD A COSISTANT WR GROUP ALL YEAR. GODWIN WAS EITHER HURT DROPPED THE BALL OR FUMBLED LAST YEAR. LAST IN THE LEAGUE RUNNING GAME.
AT THIS POINT GISELE HATED BRADY BUT STILL SHE SAID THIS “It was tough, but you know what? Let’s just be honest. It’s a team sport and you can’t play alone,” she told Vanity Fair. “I think he did great under the circumstances that he had,” she added before noting that “he had no offensive line.”
June 29th, 2023 at 8:18 pm
This year w/o Brady from what I have seen reported here seems like players wandering around at the practice field wondering what is going on. Bowles does not have what it takes. He as HC IS RESPOSNSIBLE FOR PRACTICE. What were they doing? I heard of zero training in fundamentals of football and precision drills over and over. Sounded like Plan 9 on steroids.
June 29th, 2023 at 8:29 pm
Cobra…don ‘t disagree that pro’s should be able to deal with about anything. But just think about how many fall on their face after receiving that big contract. Or when things don’t go their way, start moping on the field. How many.?.. quite a few, it seems. Maybe this is the first time that “superman” Brady didn’t come out “smelling like a rose” since he was drafted decades ago. Don’t know, but it did seem to effect his weight. We know he missed days om camp, somewhat unplanned, which he rarely would have before. He was retired then came back. I don’t know where his head was at.
June 29th, 2023 at 9:41 pm
What gave it away? That he left in the middle of training camp or that he looked like a skeleton? Or was it how poor he played. All of the above.
June 29th, 2023 at 9:43 pm
@BradyBucs-
1) STOP YELLING!
2) Who cares anymore? It’s over. It’s the past. We’ve moved on.
I suggest all posts written with CAPS LOCK ON should immediately go to m0der@tion. It’s a far worse offense than any I’ve apparently committed that cause all of my posts to go there. Still haven’t gotten the explanation from Joe on the current state of instant m0der@tion for my posts.
June 29th, 2023 at 9:47 pm
BradyBucs, actually it was your second to last post.
Unless you count your last post as your first.
But, since you posted the same post twice, your first post was your second to last and and your second post was your last.
Or something like that.
June 29th, 2023 at 9:54 pm
Not sure how often Joe can supply the same answer. Sadly, Joe cannot read WordPress moderation code. And sadly, every time Joe asks the computer code to explain how it works in detail, Joe is met with silence.
Joe is guessing here — strictly a guess — your IP address is too close to an IP address that has been flagged or blocked previously. Or, it could easily be something in your PC/phone/laptop/tablet that is triggering the moderation.
Joe will not respond to any further questions from you about “Why am I moderated” because Joe has answered your question maybe half-a-dozen times with the same answer. If you don’t like the answer, that’s not Joe’s problem.
So please jot this down on a legal pad and use it as reference every time you need to ask: Joe doesn’t write computer code therefore Joe does not know why your comments are moderated. Trust Joe, you are not the only one. And it’s much more a pain in the arse for Joe to constantly dig comments out of the moderation queue from 4 a.m. to roughly 2 a.m. the next morning each day. Yes, one of the Joes is always checking during those hours.
June 29th, 2023 at 10:08 pm
Brady MAULED IT IN last year. The team knew it and QUIT WITH HIM.
June 29th, 2023 at 10:20 pm
There is no offense computer police. Don’t like it turn your volume down. Just like Mr english teacher who jumps on people then turns around and misspells words. Don’t like it don’t read it.
June 29th, 2023 at 10:48 pm
@Coraboy
Let me 1st say that I have read your previous posts and I sincerely enjoyed reading them. You know much more than I about the technicalities of the game itself. I recognize your higher education and appreciate it
However I have a higher education profile myself. Its expertise is in the human psyche & administering therapy to others including athletes. So let’s agree to disagree however when it comes to the total human being, pro athlete or not I just might know a little more. Have a blessed evening.”
June 30th, 2023 at 12:45 am
@Oneilbuc
family passing hurts but you will eventually get over it, like playing a sport you love.
divorce otoh is hell, its going to suck the life out of you. before and after
June 30th, 2023 at 2:57 am
Till Brady tells it (that ain’t gonna happen) It’s all BS
Go Bucs!
June 30th, 2023 at 3:03 am
It really looked like Tom Brady wanted to play for another team. It seemed that all the rumors of Brady trying to force a trade and wanting to play else where was true.
June 30th, 2023 at 7:36 am
Sadly it was clear that Brady got rid of the ball as fast as he could. Lots of contributing factors that other folks on here have listed. It was a sad end to a great career but not that unusual. Many a former great qb kept playing longer that they should.
June 30th, 2023 at 9:42 am
Last years offensive line was the worst in Bucs history!!
Zero push in the run game.
Pressure up the middle on every snap!
June 30th, 2023 at 10:05 am
Excuses for Brady: oh, poor baby, he went through a divorce.
Sorry, not buying that at all. I knew a ton of players going through a divorce. They used football as an escape FROM those issues. Remember that a top-level athlete’s mentality is NOT like a regular schmoe.
A better excuse for Brady is he lost “it” physically, and could no longer do what he used to do. Fact is, and this is something I have personally experienced, as you age there is a point where suddenly you cannot do physically what you used to do…almost overnight. It happened to me at 27. Happened to the physical freakish Brady at 45.
If I had to speculate, Brady might not have worked as hard in the off-season as he did before. THAT could be due to personal issues, which could be when he “lost” it.
But do I think that personal issues weighed him down DURING the season? Doubtful. If it did, he lost his renowned mental toughness and should have quit when he knew he was no longer the GOAT. And if he KNEW it…and I think he would…he did his teammates and the team a serious disservice.
June 30th, 2023 at 12:24 pm
On the field? No more Gronk.
June 30th, 2023 at 3:41 pm
Wow what an interesting debate! So did the divorce and family crackup effect Brady?
Of course it did and I say this as a compliment to Brady’s humanity. Which is more important in life…your family or freaking playing a game when your family is worth more than a half BILLION. A game btw where Brady’s health…his brain..were on the line.
I understand Cobra and revere his football experience. But he wants a Terminator not a real human being. Yes there are some who can become terminators but who wants to be around them off the field?
We ALREADY knew Brady was the NFL QB GOAT! What was left to prove? That he could also attempt to be a GOAT of a father..tough for him because OF his JOB that ship had sailed before last season. The fact that at 45 he begin to reevaluate his personal values only makes me respect him more.
June 30th, 2023 at 3:49 pm
But what about Devin White losing his dad why none of y’all gave him that excuse like y’all doing Brady??
June 30th, 2023 at 10:20 pm
It was obvious from the preseason that the OLine was held together by the paste you use in kindergarten. Bowles isn’t much of a coach and Leftwich was in over his head… but neither had the power to rebuild the line. That was up to Licht, and he was asleep at the Licht switch.
July 1st, 2023 at 7:35 pm
spbf: no one in the NFL hires a pro football player because of his “humanity.”
If Brady was actually that “distracted” and still played, he stole from every Bucs fan.
July 2nd, 2023 at 2:35 am
This is old news and rehash. On top of the many team-related internal disasters in the House of Bowles that Brady could do nothing about (no, he did not have the authority, or the ear of anyone in the bureaucracy in any meaningful way), he was completely distracted by personal and family issues, a sh-tcan movie and media retirement life that was supposed to command his total attention, and huge FTX financial losses that may have “encouraged” him to come back when he didn’t want to.
So not only “held back”, but unhappy and disturbed in general. Be glad he still offered some lights out games, which still might have been enough to have gone deeper in the playoffs if the rest of the team and Bowles had truly been all-in behind him.