Last week, Tom Brady shared that the New England Patriots’ Super Bowl LII loss to the Philadelphia Eagles was one of the most haunting of his career. However, there’s another Super Bowl he’d like to rewrite.
In the return of Brady’s mailbag (presented by Verizon), the seven-time Super Bowl winner was asked if there was one throw in his career that he’d like to take back. One game immediately came to mind.
“Yes. Whenever the ‘Do you wish you could’ve done something different in your NFL career,’ [question gets asked], it comes again to 1 recreation: the Tremendous Bowl in opposition to the Giants,” Brady stated.
After all, the Patriots misplaced to the New York Giants in two Tremendous Bowls. However the one Brady’s referencing is New England’s 17-14 loss in Tremendous Bowl XLII, when the Patriots misplaced their excellent season within the closing recreation.
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New England really led for a superb portion of that recreation earlier than it traded scores with New York within the fourth quarter. In truth, Brady threw a landing cross to Randy Moss that gave the Patriots a 14-10 lead with 2:42 remaining. Nonetheless, the notorious “Helmet Catch” by David Tyree occurred on the next drive, permitting the Giants to attain a landing to take a 17-14 lead with 35 seconds left.
Whereas coming again to tie the sport may need felt inconceivable, Brady almost helped the Patriots get into subject objective vary. That’s when the throw he’d most wish to have again in his profession occurred.
“Late within the recreation, Randy Moss received behind the protection and I threw the ball one yard brief,” Brady stated. “It was in all probability the furthest throw of my profession. Roll to the appropriate, and I threw it again throughout the sphere to Randy. Randy had the defender beat, and if I put it on the market yet one more yard, he in all probability catches that, we kick the sphere objective and go to additional time. Perhaps we win in additional time, however that may be the one.”
With the Patriots going through a third-and-20 from their very own 16-yard line, Brady threw a cross that traveled roughly 65 yards down the sphere. As Brady stated, Moss had overwhelmed the 2 Giants defenders overlaying him, however certainly one of them was capable of provide you with the key cross breakup.
If Brady was capable of full that cross to Moss, the Patriots would’ve possible been within the purple zone with simply over 10 seconds left. As an alternative, Brady is caught serious about what if he had accomplished that cross to Moss.
“It’s worse than unhappy,” Brady added of the loss.
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