Tom Brady looked like his old self during the final seconds of Sunday’s victory over the Los Angeles Rams but the seven-time Super Bowl champion shared a harsh assessment of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this week, despite still celebrating what he called a "great team win." 

Sloppy play for the majority of the game was outshined by Brady’s one-yard touchdown pass to rookie tight end Cade Otton with just nine seconds left on the clock. 

The veteran seemed ecstatic during his postgame presser but during Monday’s episode of the "Let’s Go!" podcast, Brady had a more grounded take of the Bucs’ performance thus far into the season.

BUCS’ TOM BRADY PROVES AGAIN HE’S THE GOAT IN ANOTHER INCREDIBLE VICTORY: ‘THAT WAS F---ING AWESOME’

"Much needed, and it was a great team win. … We ended up kind of figuring out a way, not that I want it to be that close and the margin of error [be] as close as that, but we realize we got to do a lot of things a little bit better, but it's good to win. After what we’ve gone through, losing five of six — good to win."

He continued: "There’s definitely some things we do well. There’s a lot of things we don’t do well. I think too much of good, bad, good, bad, good, bad, leaves you average, and no one’s trying to be average. If you want to be a great team, you’ve got to be way better than average."

Brady went on to say the "most embarrassing" problem the Bucs have had to deal with week-to-week is the team’s effort on game day. 

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"Correcting our mistakes, improving our effort — which that’s probably the most embarrassing part of our team — is our effort level on game day. And that’s something we better fix."

Tampa Bay avoided a four-game skid with Sunday’s victory, but Brady stopped short of saying that it "saved their season." 

"[It’s] too early for a proclamation like that but there’s only so deep of a hole you can dig. And if you dig yourself too deep a hole, you got no shot coming out of it." 

The Bucs will travel to Germany this week for a pivotal game against the 6-3 Seattle Seahawks. A win in Munich will put them at 5-5 going into their bye-week. 

"If we can win this one, get to 5-5 — not that that’s where we want it to be — but that’s where we’re at, and the whole season is ahead of us, and we’ll get time to take a deep breath, reevaluate where we’re at with everything and try to put our best going forward," Brady said.

Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) survived her first election as governor of the Empire State on Tuesday night, besting GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin (NY) in a race that continued to tighten against the Democrat’s favor, according to a projection from DecisionDeskHQ.

Though it looked like 64-year-old Hochul would have an easy ride to victory as the incumbent Democrat, concerns over rising crime and sky-high inflation moved the race to a toss-up in recent weeks.

Notably, Hochul was not a traditional incumbent — she wasn’t elected to the position of governor, but took over for disgraced Governor Andrew Cuomo after a sexual misconduct scandal led to his ouster in August 2021.

Zeldin, 42, during the campaign routinely highlighted what he called failed Democratic policies responsible for the raging crime wave in the state, specifically in New York City. The tactic seemed to tighten the polls in his favor, despite Hochul’s focus on social issues like abortion.

One of the early moments that seemed to contrast the pair on crime policies was in July, when Zeldin was attacked by a blade-wielding man during a campaign stop in Rochester. The attacker, identified as 43-year-old David G. Jakubonis, was released mere hours after his arrest.

“After being charged with a felony for last night’s attack, the man who tried to stab me was instantly released back onto the street due to New York’s insane cashless bail law. We MUST repeal cashless bail in New York!” Zeldin tweeted at the time, captioning a photo of the thwarted attack.

Jakubonis was arrested days later on a federal assault charge.

After being charged with a felony for last night’s attack, the man who tried to stab me was instantly released back onto the street due to New York’s insane cashless bail law. We MUST repeal cashless bail in New York! pic.twitter.com/7pMpulaOoJ

— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) July 22, 2022

And in October, a shooting broke out outside the Zeldin family home while his two twin daughters were inside by themselves, hiding in a bathroom until the gunfire ceased.

“We cannot surrender any street anywhere in the state of New York to criminals,” the gubernatorial hopeful said following the shooting. “I want to see our law enforcement in charge of all of New York’s streets.”

Zeldin hit the same tough-on-crime note during the pair’s debate, while Hochul zeroed-in on gun laws, despite the state having some of the strictest gun laws in the nation.

“Kathy Hochul believes that the only crimes being committed are crimes with guns; you have people who are afraid to be pushed in front of oncoming subway cars, they’re being stabbed, beaten to death on the street with hammers,” Zeldin said.

“Talk to the Asian American community and how it’s impacted them with the loss of lives, Jewish people targeted with raw, violent anti-Semitism on our streets — it just happened yet again,” the Republican continued. “We need to be talking about all of these other crimes, but instead, Kathy Hochul is busy patting herself on the back, job well done. No, actually.”

“Right now,” Zeldin said, “there should be a special session” to “overhaul cashless bail and these other pro-criminal laws with zero tolerance.”

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul's plan to address the spike in violent crime? More gun control.

Congressman Lee Zeldin has other ideas. pic.twitter.com/QlJ0T4Uz2F

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 25, 2022

Hochul during the debate painted Zeldin as too conservative for deep-Blue New York, specifically when it comes to abortion.

“You’re the only person standing on this stage whose name right now — not years past — that right now, is on a bill called ‘Life Begins at Conception,’” Hochul said of Zeldin.

“That is a frightening spectacle,” the Democrat added. “Women need to know that that’s on the ballot this November as well.”

Hochul refused during the debate to name a single restriction on abortion she would support. Notably, abortion is legal is some cases until the moment of birth in the Empire State.

The incumbent also refused to move on her harsh stance concerning COVID vaccine mandates, telling fired unvaccinated New Yorker health care workers she’d “do it again” with regard to the vax mandate.