Tom Brady blasts Daniel Jones for requesting release from Giants

"To think that you would ask for a release from a team that committed a lot to you is maybe different than I would have handled that," Brady said. 

Brady went on to say he always wanted to get the respect and trust of his teammates regardless of the situation he was in. 

"I faced them (challenges) in college. Some things didn't go the way I wanted. The people that mattered most to me were the guys in the locker room," Brady said. "I showed up every day, I don't care if they asked me to be scout team safety, be scout team quarterback, I was going to do whatever I could to help the team win."

Brady is a seven-time Super Bowl champion and is statistically the greatest quarterback of all time. However, his comments about Jones as a broadcaster were not elite.

Jones being relegated to playing safety at practice was humiliating for a player who was New York's franchise quarterback for half a decade and the heir apparent to two-time Super Bowl-winning QB Eli Manning. Most players in Jones' position would have likely done the same as him and asked for their release. 

Despite Brady's criticism, Jones asking for his release was the right decision. He's being valued by Minnesota more than New York, and the Vikings aren't putting him at safety. Jones is now part of a winning culture with the 9-2 Vikings and could conceivably play snaps for his new team if quarterback Sam Darnold falters down the stretch or gets injured.

Not only is Brady now a broadcaster, but he's also a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, and his comments about Jones sounded more like an out-of-touch front-office executive than a man who was the leader of countless locker rooms.