Amid a back-and-forth battle in Super Bowl XLVI, Brady grudgingly gave the Giants credit.
“In typical Giants fashion, they’re just fighters too,” said Brady. Looking at the final outcome, Brady bluntly chalked it up to another closely fought clash with a familiar foe.
“There were a lot of what-ifs in that game,” Brady said. “Unfortunately, the f******* Giants were on the other end of it.”
In the aftermath of the Super Bowl loss, Bündchen was heard saying, “My husband cannot f****** throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.”
The comment was in reaction to Welker’s crucial fourth quarter drop that could’ve moved the Patriots close to sealing the game. According to Brady, she told him about the soundbite later that night.
“You can’t say that,” Brady told Bündchen, though she didn’t initially believe it was a consequential moment.
“I thought I was mild on what I said,” Bündchen explained. “I mean it’s true. How can he do everything?”
“It’s just funny that you get remembered by the one [drop],” Welker lamented of the play. “It’s just something that I have to move on from.”
Of course, as Brady correctly pointed out, Welker’s drop came on second down of that drive.
“That was a huge play in the game, but at the same time, there was a play to be made on third down too,” said Brady, “and I didn’t do that one either.”