"Your body gets used to the hits," Brady said. "The brain understands the position that you're putting your body into. And my brain is wired for contact. I would say in some ways it's become calloused to some of the hits."
Brady said when reviewing film, he's sometimes asked if the hits he takes hurt. He said he doesn't even feel some of them anymore.
"I look at certain hits in the game that I see on film, and people go, 'God, did that hurt a lot?'" Brady said. "And I'll say, 'No, I didn't even really feel it.'
"It's just from all of the work that I'm putting in, understanding the things I need to do to prepare my body."
"Based on all of the pliability treatments that I do, my muscles just absorb the forces and disperse the forces as well as they ever have. I take hits better now at 41 than I did when I was 25."
That's not to say Brady doesn't get hurt. NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported last Sunday that Brady had been playing through an MCL sprain for some of the 2018 season, but eventually got over it.
So, what, Kevin Turner's wasn't? Junior Seau's wasn't? Justin Strzelczyk's brain wasn't? Andre Waters' brain wasn't wired for contact? But yours is? It was very insensitive, and I thought irresponsible to talk like that."
Brady told Grey that he thinks he has an advantage on other players from his training. He said he thinks about what he can do to improve on a daily basis and works at it year-round.
With Brady and the Patriots seemingly rounding into form as soon as the playoffs began, it's hard to argue that he must be onto something.
