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May 13, 2008

More from Brady

More from Tom Brady's interview today on The Big Show -- Sports Radio 850 WEEI Radio:

On whether he was surprised Matt Walsh had no new information
It hasn't surprised me for a long time. I think the stuff before the Super Bowl, that was unfortunate that something like that had to come up before the biggest game of the year. We dealt with it all season. We dealt with it now, until today, throughout the offseason. At some point we've put it behind us. We put it behind us the following week when we went out to play San Diego after the Jet game. So I think it's just . . . it was an incident that we accepted and we paid the price for, and a very heavy price at that, and we moved forward. So I hope everybody else does, too.

On the timing of the report of the Pats' allegedly taping the Rams' walkthrough
I don't know why they choose that time to do it. I think it was the Boston Herald that [were] the people that started it . . . Because [coach Bill Belichick is] not the type of person that wants to go out and talk about his game plans and talk about injuries and talk about how to beat teams, I think people don't like that. And because he doesn't say much, you're left to assume a lot of different things. For us, in terms of us winning games, that's what's the best thing for us, but obviously, for our fans and for the media, it's not the best thing for them. They want to know all the information right away and Coach Belichick says, "Wait a minute, I want the other teams to have to figure these things out." Which we love as a team. We love, as players, that our coach doesn't want to go out and toot his own horn and talk about how great of a coach he is. He just wants to win. And I think the best thing that he does for us is, he doesn't talk about anything other than . . . kind of the ways that we want to approach each week without getting into details, game plans, and stuff like that. We've come a long way in eight years and I think we've gained a lot of credibility around the league. And I think, in this particular instance, people kind of want to chop us down a little bit. I understand that, too, and that's part of the competition. It didn't mean anything. We won 18 games this last year. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out at the end the way we would have hoped. But we moved past it then, and we're moving it past it now.

On the taping of opponents' signals
I guess, in a lot of ways, it wasn't the right thing to do. We paid the price. We accepted it. And we moved on. And that's what life's about. In life, you're accountable for your decisions, for all your actions, and once you take responsibility, and you accept the punishment, you move on.

On whether the reports were a distraction in the Super Bowl
No, it wasn't a distraction one bit.

On the Giants
t was really a great game. I wish we would've played better at certain times, but [the Giants] made the plays and they deserved it. And I have a lot of respect for that team because they work hard, and they have a lot of great leaders on that team. It's kind of a blue-collar team. When you do lose a game, you at least want to lose to guys you respect. And I certainly respect those guys. I don't respect everybody, but I do respect the Giants.

On teams he doesn't respect
There's four letters in their name.

Those green guys?
Yeah, exactly.

The attitude of opposing players toward the Spygate controversy
Nobody really said much. Actually, it was funny. I got an e-mail from Lawyer Milloy the other day and he said, 'Ha, you guys cheated when you played us. Therefore, we beat you guys.' And I said, 'Okay, you're right. We give you four touchdowns back. Oh, [shoot], we still win.' He laughed. He laughed. Believe me, everybody . . . none of the players think anything of it. Believe me. Not one person has expressed anything to me. And for that reason: It's a dead issue. It's a complete dead issue. It's been that way for a long time.

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