New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady took the rare moment to reflect during their joint-experience on the league’s “NFL Top 100,” a list of the best players in the history of the NFL. And Belichick, who had a large hand in curating that list, selected Brady to be a part of it.
While Brady and Belichick typically brush off comments and questions about their many accomplishments, this seemed like a situation where they were willing to do so.
“Spending time with Tom on the set was awesome,” Belichick said. “We’ve been through so many great moments together, both on and off the field, in terms of the actual football game itself, but all the preparation that leads up to it and the competition that’s involved there with other coaches, players, teams, and so forth. Yeah, it was great to talk about those and think back and reflect on some of the great moments that we’ve shared together and how much hard work and the other part of the experiences that went into those moments – not just the result of the play, or a game, or even a season, but all of the things that you think about. I mean, those things don’t just happen.”
Brady was asked about the experience during an interview with WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Show” last week.
“It was a fun day,” Brady said. “I was in New York and flew down to the NFL Films studios when they were filming. It was actually the first segment, and we were the first people that were interviewed in the whole thing. It was fun. Cris Collinsworth was there, Rich Eisen, Coach Belichick (and I) got to reminisce a little bit and then had a few other quarterbacks — who I can’t name — come onto the set.
“It was really cool. Very surreal for me to be part of that. It’s an incredible honor. And I know 100 years in the NFL, you can’t just name 100 great players, there’s thousands and thousands. To even be considered as one of the greats to play, I would never have imagined that in my life. Very honored and very flattered and very humbled.”
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