"The Tom Brady you almost always see has a long memory for losses. He pores over them, lying awake at night flogging himself for imperfections in games gone by.

"That's definitely a part of my nature," Brady said in a November interview with Westwood One radio.

He rehashes everything you can imagine. The Patriots quarterback can't help himself.

"I look at a game like the Super Bowl against the Giants that I wish I'd made more plays in that game," Brady said then. "They're tough to handle. The playoff losses are the ones that haunt you the most, because there's a finality to the football season.""