Tom Brady explains why playing through fake crowd noise may be more difficult than playing in front of fans

• Tom Brady says that the pumped-in crowd noise the Buccaneers were practicing with was louder than you might expect.
• Brady said that while a live crowd's noise follows the action, the pumped-in noise is a different beast.
• "Normally it ebbs and flows," Brady said. "But with that pumped in crowd noise, it doesn't ebb and flow — it just flows."

Tom Brady says that the pumped-in crowd noise that NFL teams plan to use may be more difficult to deal with than regular road games.

Brady's comments came while speaking with reporters on Friday, leading off with a cheap shot aimed at his old rivals, the Indianapolis Colts, and Buccaneers quarterbacks coach Clyde Christensen, who used to be on the Indianapolis staff.

"I thought it was one of the Colts' old tapes when they used to pump all that sound into the RCA Dome," Brady said when asked about what it was like to play through the pumped-in crowd noise during practice. "I was telling coach Clyde that they must have pulled that out of his basement for today's practice."

After getting his joke in, Brady admitted that the sound was tough to face, noting that while a live crowd rises and falls with the action, the current set up has players fighting through a crowd that is going nuts all the time.

"It's something to get used to. It definitely has its challenges," Brady said. "If that's how loud it's going to be, that's going to be tough for everybody. The communication's tough, and you don't have a down moment. You're screaming the whole day to people on the sideline, which is very unique to a game because normally it ebbs and flows. But with that pumped in crowd noise, it doesn't ebb and flow — it just flows. We're going to have to get used to that. I'm going to have to draw on my earlier days."

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Brady and the Buccaneers are set to start the season in just two weeks, opening their 2020 campaign against the New Orleans Saints. Going up against Drew Brees and Michael Thomas, Brady will have much bigger problems than the crowd noise when Week 1 finally kicks off.

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