Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end is a good football player but doesn't really care much for the spotlight.
Last year, the Bucs were the team featured on HBO's Hard Knocks, and Brate had no interest in appearing on the show, so he found a way out. Brate discovered all he had to do was wave at the camera, and they wouldn't feature those clips on the show.
“I figured out if you wave [at the cameras], they won’t put that on, ever,” Brate recently told SiriusXM NFL Radio, via JoeBucsFan.com. “So you have to start waving at the cameras.”
Brate was asked a follow up if he thought the show was too invasive, and he didn't really think so. He thought it was a good chance for a smaller market team like the Bucs to get some national attention. Brate also didn't mind because the cameras are already on during each practice, so what're an extra three or four cameras. Coaches are always filming practices so Hard Knocks really isn't much different.
“I really didn’t think it was too invasive. I mean, there are always cameras on while we are playing. I feel like they are always watching anyway. I feel like some of the guys maybe could have hammed it up too much for the cameras. Whatever, that’s their choice. For me, I didn’t see it as a distraction for the majority of the team, no.”
Even if Brate said it wasn't much of a distraction being on TV like that had to be at least a little distracting, something the Cleveland Browns get to look forward this year.
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