Rodney Harrison: Tom Brady looks 'scared to death back there'

Former New England Patriots safety and current NBC Sports analyst Rodney Harrison had a tough time watching his old club get absolutely walloped by the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday night.

“I’m trying to be mellow, but it really hurt me,” Harrison told WEEI 93.7 FM. “I’m not used to seeing a team go out that was so unprepared, a team that was flat-out embarrassed. You expect your best players to step up and be able to make plays, and you put on that tape and you just see quarterbacks not afraid to go at (Darrelle) Revis, Vince Wilfork - he missed a tackle that could have stopped that touchdown - (Jerod) Mayo gets burned on a touchdown, (Tom) Brady just looks like he’s scared to death back there.

“It’s so many issues. If it was just one issue, then you could probably fix it. But it’s so many issues, that’s the concern that I have.”

Brady, a sure-fire future Hall of Famer, was under siege all night, tossing a pair of interceptions and losing a fumble before being pulled in the fourth quarter in favor of Jimmy Garoppolo.

Garoppolo completed 6-of-7 passes for 70 yards and a touchdown in relief.

“Tom Brady can still play,” Harrison said. “But when you surround him - there’s a reason why Brandon LaFell was let go (by the Carolina Panthers). He’s not a great player. He’s a young guy, and he has to make his way in this league. And Danny Amendola, you look at him, no one ever said he was a great player. He’s always been hurt. The history is behind it. Rob Gronkowski, obviously coming off that ACL injury, he’s been hurt. So it’s not like when you look at the Patriots on paper they just have all these weapons and teams are afraid of them.

“But at the end of the day when you’re looking at the division, it’s a really bad division. You’ve got the Jets, who are struggling. Buffalo, they don’t have an identity. And the Miami Dolphins, obviously, they beat the Raiders, but they’ve been up and down.”