Tom Brady sends clear message to Raiders rookie Fernando Mendoza: Earn your opportunity

Tom Brady built a Hall of Fame vocation by proving himself each Sunday. He expects Las Vegas Raiders rookie Fernando Mendoza to bash the same.

Speaking with Liz Claman connected FOX Business' "The Claman Countdown," Brady wasn't funny successful fueling offseason backmost fever. As acold arsenic the Raiders number proprietor is concerned, Mendoza hasn't earned thing yet.

"Well, I emotion Fernando, but Fernando is similar each different young rookie," Brady said.

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New England Patriots backmost Tom Brady (12) celebrates with the Vince Lombardi Trophy aft winning Super Bowl LI against the Atlanta Falcons astatine NRG Stadium connected Feb 5, 2017 successful Houston, Texas. (Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images)

"He's got to spell retired determination and gain it similar everybody else... nary of these young players, nary of the rookies person ever had a meaningful drawback successful the NFL."

For Brady, draught presumption and offseason hype lone spell truthful far.

"Their vocation and their travel volition beryllium determined by the enactment that they enactment in, by the adversities that they overcome, by the benignant of teammate and squad subordinate that they are," Brady added.

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It's the aforesaid mindset Brady says he's bringing to his latest task disconnected the field.

HAMBURG, GERMANY - MAY 06: Tom Brady gestures connected signifier during time 2 of the yearly OMR Festival astatine Hamburg Messe connected May 06, 2026 successful Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) (Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

The 48-year-old precocious joined integer wellness institution eMed arsenic its Chief Wellness Officer, saying helium wants to assistance springiness mundane Americans entree to the benignant of wellness guidance helium relied connected passim his legendary career.

"My assemblage genuinely was my plus arsenic a shot player," Brady recalled.

"So you're right, I was precise fortunate implicit a play of clip to larn a batch of disciplines that allowed maine to instrumentality the tract feeling precise healthy, feeling energized and excited astir going retired determination to effort to, you know, triumph immoderate shot games."

Brady wants to bring that aforesaid blueprint to radical who don't person entree to an NFL-caliber enactment system.

"But erstwhile I retired, I realized that there's a batch of radical successful beingness that possibly they're not nonrecreational athletes, but to a degree, we each are surviving diversion lifestyles," helium said. "We wanna beryllium healthy. We wanna play with our kids. We wanna play with grandkids."

Tom Brady and Joe Montana look connected earlier Super Bowl LX betwixt the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, Calif. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

Brady besides praised the interaction GLP-1 medications person had connected helping radical statesman improving their health.

"There's nary statement astir the mode that this medicine is moving close present successful presumption of keeping radical and getting radical connected their wellness travel started," Brady stated. "And past we bash a large occupation keeping them connected that journey."

To Brady, whether the extremity is winning the QB1 occupation oregon improving someone's health, occurrence comes down to focusing connected fundamentals.

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"I realized that a batch of the values that I had arsenic an NFL subordinate transitioned precise good to what happens successful the workforce," Brady explained. "And it comes down to accountability, discipline, showing up for different people, serving different people."

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