Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, the NFL's elder statesman at age 44, has seen plenty of changes around the league during his 22-year career.
Brady addressed the evolution of the quarterback position during an appearance on the Let’s Go! podcast on Wednesday, noting the league's embrace of mobile quarterbacks in recent years. He attributes that uptick in part to rule changes.
"I think they’re [now] calling more penalties on defensive players for hitting, you know, for violent contact," Brady said. "There’s a lot of plays and hits that are happening on quarterbacks now, that are flags for defensive players, that probably weren’t that way 10 or 15 years ago.