Tom Brady isn’t sugarcoating the Raiders’ first year under his watch.
After a full season as a minority owner, Brady looked at a team that finished so poorly it landed the No. 1 pick in the draft and said the standard in 2026 has to look a lot different. Speaking on the Stick to Football podcast, he said he wants to see real progress across the board after a season he считает the Raiders simply didn’t do enough in any area.
“I would expect a lot of improvement from where it’s been,” Brady said on the Stick to Football podcast. “Last year, we just underperformed in every area.
And it’s everybody’s fault. That’s the reality.
There’s nobody who did a good job. There’s not one player in the organization, there’s not anybody involved that did the job to the level that it needs to be done at.
And everybody needs to improve. And it starts with me, and it filters down to the rest of the players on the field, and they’ve got to go out there, and ultimately they’ve got to perform at a high level.”
Brady was asked whether that meant a specific win total in 2026. He didn’t bite on a number, but he made it clear he’s looking for a much bigger step forward.
“A massive improvement,” Brady said. “And I would expect daily improvement, and I’d expect hourly improvement.
I really would. Every day that goes by, when you’re on a good team, every day and every week goes by, you should be better.
Like, a good team should be better at the end of the season than the beginning of the season, or you’re not a good team. If you have more time together and more practice and you’re getting worse, something’s wrong.
“If you have more time, more practice, you should be getting better. Now the problem’s the offseason, you change players, you change coaches, and now you’ve got to rebuild to where you were.
Like, a lot of the teams I played on, the best game we played all season was the last game of the year. That says to me a lot about what the team’s all about.”
There’s a catch, though. Brady’s in the owner’s chair, not the film room or the meeting room, and he’s also working Fox broadcasts. So while he’s calling for daily and hourly improvement, the real test will be how present he is while the Raiders try to make that leap.
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