Tom Brady News

"Tom Brady knew yesterday was an important day toward finally putting Matt Walsh and the Camera-gate saga to rest. The significance of Walsh’s meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, however, didn’t make the Patriots quarterback stop what he was doing and check out the outcome as it unfolded on television. Teammate Kevin Faulk, on the other hand, watched every minute of Goodell’s press conference."

"The Patriots have received a double dose of good news on the injury front, starting with quarterback Tom Brady. Hobbled in the Super Bowl by a high ankle sprain, Brady checked out fine recently and hasn’t had any troubles with the bothersome right ankle, according to a league source. He won’t be restricted for the offseason workout program or minicamps."

"Seeing the Patriots' 2007 season through the eyes of Tom Brady Sr. is to get a slightly different perspective from the casual view. From the record-setting performance of his son on the field, to the media firestorm created off of it, Brady Sr. rode the highs and lows and twists and turns like any father would, hoping for the best."

" What will be the lasting impact of those defeats on how we rank Brady and Favre among the game's best ever?"

"The only bowl Tom Brady and Randy Moss will play in this season is the Super Bowl. The two were among the eight Patriots selected to play for the AFC in the Pro Bowl, but both informed the NFL they won't be making the trip to Hawaii for the game, which is Sunday."

"In the days leading up to Super Bowl XLII, it was hard to watch a sports television show, listen to sports radio, or read the sports section of a newspaper without seeing, hearing, or reading how good Tom Brady has been throughout his career."

"The man who has coached Tom Brady for 18 years believes his star pupil was affected his ballyhooed right-ankle injury in Super Bowl XLII."

"Tom Brady, football's version of the Massachusetts Miracle, had defied the gridiron gods 28 times before, engineering fourth-quarter or overtime drives to lead the Patriots from a deficit or tie to triumph. He had done it three times to make them Super Bowl champions and almost did it a fourth time before the magic passed - at least for one night - to Eli Manning of the Giants."

"He's done it so many times before. When the Patriots fall behind late in the game, Tom Brady puts on his 'Superman cape,' comes to their rescue and rallies them back for a victory. "

"There was a glitch in the Patriots’ high-speed connection Sunday night. Because of increased traffic in the backfield, Tom Brady to Randy Moss was not working."

"Tom Brady looked like anything but the cool, calm and collected supermodel-dating, Stetson cologne-wearing star quarterback in last night's Super Bowl XLII loss to the Giants."

"The Giants came after Tom Brady like a hoard of sidewalk paparazzi. They harassed him, rattled him. This time, he couldn't run into the waiting arms of Gisele Bundchen. He was trapped in the pocket, his aura of invincibility stripped Sunday night in Super Bowl XLII."

"The Giants were all over Tom Brady, sacking him five times, forcing a fumble when Justin Tuck grabbed the quarterback's cocked arm, reducing the Patriots quarterback to flanker screens and short stuff over the middle and only the threat of the deep ball, which never happened."

"Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was hammering his feet up and down, anxiously slapping the ball against his left hand, hurriedly scanning the field to find someone open, but the Giants' pass rush just kept coming toward him like a lava flow, incinerating everything in its path."

"At this stage, with regard to Tom Brady, there are only degrees of greatness. There is Brady’s current standing in the sports pantheon. And there is where he finally will rest."

"Only this year, the newest addition to the list, its 17th member, was Tom Brady, whose 21-for-25, 354-yard, six-touchdown, zero-interception performance in a 49-28 emasculation of the Dolphins may stand as the most perfect game of all."

"In the beginning, all Tom Brady knew is he wanted to be a football player. That was it. "

"At 30, New England Patriots All-Pro quarterback Tom Brady has everything: this season's NFL MVP award, four Pro Bowl selections, a page of NFL records, a historic 18-0 season, GQ-cover sex appeal, Esquire's 2007 title as 'Best Dressed Man in the World,' a $33 million a year Brazilian supermodel girlfriend, three Super Bowl rings — and quite possibly a fourth today if the Patriots defeat the New York Giants here in Super Bowl XLII."

" The heir to these men, to their way of thinking, is Tom Brady, who, because he lacked speed and arm strength and size was underestimated and unappreciated. Until he started winning Super Bowls. "

"Let's agree on this: Brady is amazing. He is a great player on a great team having a great season. I get that. He is better than he was in his last Super Bowl, and better then than in the one before that, and better than anyone ever suspected he would be. But is he good enough to make you forget about Johnny Unitas?"

"Tom Brady has thrown only 11 interceptions in 18 games this season. Five came in the third quarter."

" The quarterback's right ankle will be sitting out there in plain view, wrapped or unwrapped, a giant bull's-eye for the targeting. And if Tom Brady goes down, if Matt Cassel is suddenly standing in the pocket for the Patriots, then this Super Bowl on Sunday becomes a very different sort of affair. So what are the Giants to do about this famously aching extremity?"

"The greatest Giant of them all believes Big Blue can sack Tom Brady and the Patriots and deny them history tomorrow night in Super Bowl XLII. 'I think they gotta play a mistake-free game,' Lawrence Taylor told The Post, 'but the Patriots can be had, and this is the time to do it.'"

"Drew Bledsoe could have died that day. This was early, before the hoodie and the championships, and before the dry monotone of Bill Belichick was anything more than a regional dialect in an area that had all but given up football hope."

"Some numbers lie, but not these: 42-58. That’s opposed to 100-26. It’s Tom Brady, stupid."

"So Tom Brady isn't the greatest quarterback of all time. That's still to be determined. But he's the best who's worked in the 2000s – has been for several years – and that certainly will do for now. Plus, he dates the world's top-grossing supermodel, and there's something to be said for high fashion."

"Even now, after three rings and a season that is one victory shy of unprecedented perfection, the man shakes his head when you put him alongside Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw, and the other immortals in the signal-calling pantheon. "Those guys, as far as I'm concerned, are in a league of their own," Tom Brady says. And yet, if the Patriots beat the Giants in Super Bowl XLII Sunday night, their quarterback will join Montana and Bradshaw as the only four-time winners of football's ultimate game."

"Bill Belichick has been teasing everyone about the injury report. He was eager for everyone to see it. Well, the first report of Super Bowl week hit the streets yesterday. Tom Brady? No ankle injury. Not listed...Go figure. However, Brady was listed with his ongoing right shoulder injury, the same one that’s been on the report since 2003."

"Tom Brady does get tired, even as you and I. More tired, for that matter, for quarterbacking Super Bowl champions is wearing work. Except, Tom Brady won't admit it. Just flashes that little smile. You know, Mom, the one with the hundred-million-dollar dimple."

"There’s no definitive answer as to who is the best NFL quarterback of all time. Those who say otherwise are blinded by their allegiance or their ignorance. The game has changed too much over the years to judge quarterbacks of different eras. How can Otto Graham be compared to Joe Montana? Or Johnny Unitas to John Elway?.. One thing is for sure: If the New England Patriots beat the New York Giants Sunday, the conversation won’t last long before getting to Tom Brady."

" The ground is shifting. The tectonic plates are moving. I am not certain that I can handle it. My earthquake preparedness kit is not handy. For the past 25 years, we in the Bay Area have accepted the following statement as near-scientific fact: Joe Montana was the best quarterback ever. Especially in a big game. Especially in the last minutes of a big game. And then along comes this troublemaking kid from San Mateo to make us question science."

"Imagine a pyramid of men. Along the bottom are the junkies, former Enron executives and professional deniers of global warming. Somewhere amassed above in various gradations are the rest of us, either trying to claw to a higher level or in a death-clench to maintain our perch. Alone at the top, standing on Tiger Woods' and George Clooney's shoulders, is one man. The Man Above All Others. That would be Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr."

"Before offering himself up for public consumption in the annual rite of madness known as Super Bowl Media Day, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady playfully turned the tables on the ravenous horde lying in wait for him at University of Phoenix Stadium."

"Tom? He’s terrific. 'My ankle feels good. My ankle feels great,' Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said yesterday."

"Not surprisingly, the first question Tom Brady heard at yesterday’s Media Day was about his sprained right ankle, which he practiced on Monday."

"It was with much sympathy that Joe Montana watched the footage of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady facing an all-out blitz in New York last week. And a little surprise. In that situation, Montana wondered, why wouldn’t Brady try a play fake?"

"It would be hell being Tom Brady if not for a truth he swore yesterday in front of a marriage-proposing Mexican newswoman in a wedding gown; or for the guy in a sorcerer's costume predicting both victory Sunday and marriage within a year; or the rolling swarms of eye-rolling football writers wanting him to talk about history and the Giants: The quarterback of the Patriots wouldn't want to be anybody else."

"Tom Brady was at University of Phoenix Stadium yesterday in uniform - the same place he'll be in uniform in four days when the stakes are real and the Patriots' undefeated record and run at history stands in jeopardy."

"It's a phenomenon called the Tom Brady Man Crush, and it has taken hold of straight male football fans - yes, even some Giants fans - all over New York City."

"I'm just here to report the facts. It is NFL media day at the Super Bowl, and inside the University of Phoenix Stadium, the woman in the white wedding dress is making her way toward Tom Brady."

"The television reporter from Mexico City's TV Azteca wore a lacy veil and flowing white satin and bobbed on the shoulder of a cameraman to better win the attention of Tom Brady on Tuesday as hundreds of media jostled for proximity to this Super Bowl's unquestioned star attraction. Whether it was the attire or the elevation, it worked."

"When Tom Brady cracked that huge Tom Brady smile Tuesday, one had no choice but to recall Rex Grossman's misery."

"Tom Brady returned to the practice field in earnest yesterday. This was not casual tossing on the sideline, or a few drop-backs, as he had last week in Foxboro while the Patriots put in the game plan without the quarterback."

"With his right ankle heavily taped, quarterback Tom Brady took to the practice field yesterday at Arizona State's Sun Devil Stadium in preparation for Sunday's Super Bowl XLII against the Giants. It was the first time he had practiced since suffering the injury in the third quarter of the AFC Championship game against the Chargers."

"His right ankle was heavily taped and he was limping a bit, but Tom Brady was back at practice yesterday for the New England Patriots."

"Patriots quarterback Tom Brady practiced Monday for the first time since sustaining a mild ankle sprain in the American Football Conference championship game on Jan. 20."

"After a week of absence from practice and rampant speculation about the status of his high right ankle sprain, Tom Brady was back in practice with his teammates yesterday at the Arizona State University training facility."

"It's official now. Tom Brady's 'minor' high ankle sprain is an issue, even if the Patriots keep treating it as if Gisele just broke a fingernail."

"Tom Brady has that certain California cool. He can wear the 5 o'clock shadow without apology. He fits nicely in fashion magazines, where GQ stands for more than great quarterback. "

"It was one of those scenes that demoralize the American male, make you wonder where it all went wrong. As the perfect quarterback and perfect supermodel arrived at her place, in the perfect paparazzi fantasy, weren't we all assuming Tom Brady is in it largely for the glamour, the perks, the Maxim life for which every sports-watching dude actually might give up his high-def TV?"