Source - The Pro Bowl does not matter.
If you hadn’t already figured that out on your own, take it from Tom Brady.
Former New England Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes was remembering his time in Foxborough this week, and recalled a time after his third season in 2012 when he didn’t get selected for the Pro Bowl.
Spikes — who played for the Patriots from 2010-2013, and then for the Buffalo Bills in 2014 and 2016 before retiring — had a great season that year, too. He recorded 56 solo tackles, a career best, and started all but two games. He felt that was beyond good enough to make a Pro Bowl roster.
When he didn’t make it, Spikes was crushed.
“I’d been playing off the charts, and I didn’t get picked to go to the Pro Bowl,” Spikes told Sports Illustrated. “I was moping around, actually in tears, and a few guys were trying to lift me up, like, ‘It’s gonna be alright man. We’ve got to worry about what’s in front of us.'”
Then, Brady walked up to him.
“Then The Pharaoh himself walks up to me — I used to call Brady ‘The Pharaoh’ and he hated that,” Spikes told Sports Illustrated. “Brady walks up to me and says, ‘Hey B, you think I play this shit to go to Pro Bowls? Get it together. Get your head up. We’re trying to win rings. That’s what it is here.’
“That’s where I knew what kind of environment I was in, how blessed I was.”
I'm not even a Patriots fan and this type of shit makes my pants tight. Tom Brady is just a different level of competitor altogether. Get your shit together Brandon, no one gives a fuck about the Pro Bowl. You won't even be able to play in it idiot, our season won't be over yet because we go to the AFC Championship game every year usually the Super Bowl shortly after that. I saw a stat this week that said if you're an 18 year old who grew up in Boston, the Patriots have been in the Super Bowl half the years you've been alive. That just isn't fair. All of us non-Patriots fans are just hoping and praying that Brady and Belichick go away.
That's why I've spent the last couple weeks convincing myself that they will both retire if they win one more. So now I won't be furious when they inevitably beat the Rams and raise the Lombardi trophy for the sixth time, because my dumb brain actually believes it will mean they are finally going to go away forever.
They won't.
They'll come back. They'll win more. We'll all suffer for as long as they want us to.
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