[announcer] Good evening and welcome to the 2014 NFL Draft.
[crowd cheers]
With the 67th pick in the 2014 NFL draft,
your New England and my New England Patriots...
[crowd cheers]
...select Jimmy Garoppolo.
Quarterback, Eastern Illinois.
[announcer] Wow. Talk to me, Mike, talk to me.
[Mike Florio] This kid's got a quick release, big arm, very athletic.
Interesting position to get taken by the New England Patriots
with Tom Brady at his age.
[announcer 2] To draft a quarterback that high,
Tom Brady has a reason to be a little bit miffed.
[Robert Kraft] Jimmy.
Congratulations. Great to have you part of our squad.
Right after we make the pick, I think to myself, "Wow."
This was a big move, and it was a statement from Bill Belichick.
[camera shutters click]
[Tom Curran] The drafting of Jimmy Garoppolo was a little eye-widening,
especially for Tom Brady.
Brady was basically already on record as saying, "I'm going to play infinitely."
He had every intention of sticking around.
Why would you draft a quarterback?
You know the situation, we have a quarterback.
I think that we felt as an organization
that we needed to, uh, address that to some degree in the future.
So, we'll see how all that works out.
Uh, but...
I think you're better off being early rather than late with that position.
[reporter] Bill, are you referring to making sure you have a backup in place?
Or making sure you have a successor in place?
Well, you know, I mean, yeah, uh,
you know what Tom's age and contract situation is.
[Belichick] Look, age is age.
I mean, as a coach and somebody who's, you know, responsible for an organization,
it's trying to do what's best for the team,
and that's what I've always tried to do.
Thanks.
You know, I think Bill thought Tommy was starting to lose it.
I remember Bill used to show me different statistics.
Tommy's throws over 20 yards were ranked near the lowest in the league,
and Bill said, "We have to be ready to move on."
[Curran] Belichick was planning for the exit strategy,
and Brady immediately saw what he had built here.
Suddenly on a lot shakier ground than he thought it was on.
[crowd cheers]
[analyst] One thing he has feared for a long time
is anyone taking a snap instead of him.
[analyst 2] Brady's worried Garoppolo's gonna take his job at some point.
[Kraft] I think after that Jimmy Garoppolo draft,
the tension between Bill and Tom increased.
I think it was a turning point in their overall relationship dynamic.
[reporter] New England Patriots on the field for the first day of training camp.
The countdown to the pre-season officially on,
and the fans were out in full force to cheer them on.
[reporter 2] The Patriots ready to rumble at the first day of training camp.
The team is preparing for the start of the season without Tom Brady.
He will be missing the first four games to serve his Deflategate suspension.
[reporter 3] Tom Brady, who some say is the NFL's Golden Boy,
now with a more dubious distinction.
One of the highest profile players ever suspended in NFL history.
[Nora Princiotti] In 2016,
Brady was going to be suspended for the first month of the season.
But he was at training camp.
He'd been through this questionable series of events with Deflategate.
There was a sense that Belichick had thrown him under the bus.
And now Jimmy Garoppolo had an opportunity to show what he had to offer.
So there were a lot of angles from which it was a little bit...
tense.
[reporter] First practice of training camp for the Pats.
Over 12,000 fans came out.
Everyone trying to get a look at Jimmy Garoppolo.
[reporter 2] All eyes on the QBs
as Jimmy G gets prepared to start the season opener.
[Danny Amendola] I remember that training camp,
they were trying to get Jimmy ready to play.
And, you know, they were splitting reps up in camp.
[Jimmy Garoppolo] Hut! Hut!
[players call out]
- [fans cheer] - [whooping]
[fan] Way to go, Jimmy!
[Amendola] I could feel the tension with Tom.
- [whistle blows] - [coach] All right, switch sides.
[Amendola] With all the noise, you know, is he too old?
They drafted his replacement.
You know, he got suspended.
It pissed him off. You know what I'm saying?
[reporter] Have you thought about how excruciating those four games will be?
Or are you just trying to keep that out of your mind?
I try to, you know, just be as positive as I can be,
- in whatever role that I'm asked. - [reporters clamor]
[reporter 2] How did Jimmy Garoppolo look to you?
- Thank you, guys. - [reporter 3] Thank you, Tom.
Is Tom giving you any more advice than usual knowing that you're starting?
Uh, no, not much has changed.
You know, uh, we just go about our business.
Coaches coach us and we just go out there and play.
[reporter 3] Whether today or previously,
what's the best advice Tom has ever given you?
Uh...
That's a tough one.
- I'll have to get back to you on that. - What sticks with you?
[Garoppolo] Hut!
[Curran] The impact of Garoppolo was felt, I think,
throughout the Brady circle.
I remember clearly having someone very close to Brady say,
"When he returns from his suspension, Tom will destroy him."
[Garoppolo] Hut!
[Curran] But there was an awful lot to like about Jimmy Garoppolo's game.
[fans cheer]
[Princiotti] Jimmy Garoppolo was very confident, unflappable.
Also, let's be very honest, Jimmy Garoppolo is a very handsome man.
Seeing him play at training camp,
he seemed like a guy who was ready to take over.
[cheering]
Let's go!
[Al Michaels] Jimmy Garoppolo will make his first start,
without Tom Brady, who is eligible to return in their fifth game.
[Cris Collinsworth] The quick scouting report on Garoppolo is he's athletic,
he gets rid of the ball quickly, moves well in the pocket,
but none of this really matters until we see him do it in a real game.
Let's go get some points now, huh?
Let's go get some points.
[Michaels] Third and 15.
Full decibel from the crowd.
[crowd cheers]
[Michaels] Shoulder shake and again, and Garoppolo fires downfield,
and getting open and making the catch is Danny Amendola.
[Collinsworth] How fantastic was that?
The mobility scrambled around, bought some time.
[Amendola] Jimmy came in in Arizona to start the season off.
He had been preparing really hard, and he was ready to go.
- [grunts] - [cheering]
I think everybody was very happy with, you know, Jimmy's, you know, performance.
[Michaels] Short drop, and then down the sideline,
getting open is Chris Hogan for the touchdown.
[crowd cheers]
I remember the way our team responded
and rallied around Jimmy.
- [coaches cheer] - Yeah, baby!
[Slater] The excitement, the enthusiasm.
It was almost like we had won a playoff game, but it was week one.
[Collinsworth] And for Jimmy Garoppolo, how's that?
They come in against a very tough Arizona team here and get it done.
[Michaels] Twenty-three to twenty-one.
[Princiotti] That was a big win.
Week one, prime time game.
So, to see them not miss a beat,
a lot of people watching were thinking,
"Hey, Jimmy's got a little something something."
[reporter] Clearly, Belichick fell in love with Jimmy G as a young player.
He really likes him, I think, as a person, loves him as a prospect.
[reporter 2] I think they got to, at least, glimpse the future.
I loved what I saw from Garoppolo.
That was a great job. Where is he?
He's still... [indistinct]
- Oh, fuck! - [laughter]
[all cheer]
That's great. Thank you. Thank you.
- [players whistle and cheer] - Let's go!
Bring it up! Bring it up!
[all cheer]
This was a great team win. Let's build that up for next week.
Let's fucking go. Team on three. One, two, three!
- [players] Team! - [all cheer]
Great job, man. Great job, man. That's a tough place to play.
- It's a tough place to play. - Jesus. It was a good one.
[players chatter]
[Max Kellerman] Let me start by saying...
Tom Brady's just about done.
It could be his next game he plays. It could be a year from now,
but he is going to fall off a cliff.
Tom Brady is going to be a bum in short order.
- Hold up. - [Kellerman] Yeah.
Did you just say that Tom Brady is just about done?
Unless you believe that he is somehow superhuman.
No quarterback ever has played much beyond where he is now at a high level.
[Tom Brady] That was a really tough time.
I was suspended, I was away from the team.
You know, you're not always...
agree with the cards that are dealt, but...
I had to deal with it.
[reporter] We now know what he will be doing
during one of the weekends in September.
Brady will head back to Ann Arbor to serve as honorary captain for Michigan
when the Wolverines host Colorado.
Brady played for Michigan from 1995 through 1999.
[announcer] Please welcome back number ten, Tom Brady!
[cheering]
[Brady] It'd been a long time since I'd been back to Ann Arbor. Everyone said,
"How many times you get back to Michigan?"
I'm like, "I play in the fall every year. I never get a chance to go back."
[Princiotti] When Brady went to Michigan during the suspension,
I remember it being a little... interesting.
He'd had a little bit of a rocky relationship with the school,
because he felt a little bit like,
"Man, you guys didn't always roll out the red carpet for me
when I was here working my butt off for you."
You know, this is the Brady story.
He's had to constantly prove everybody wrong.
[whistle blows]
All right, go! Come on, Brady. Hurry up!
Quit standing over there bullshitting and get warmed up.
When I first got to Michigan, you know, I got beat up a little bit.
It was a tough experience. The competition was fierce.
You know, shit, I didn't know if I'd play or not.
Slow yourself down. Lift up your legs.
[Jay Flannelly] Tommy and I were classmates in Michigan. I remember,
I met this skinny, tall, goofy kid from California.
And, immediately, I was struck by how nice a guy he was.
He was very friendly, and he was tall.
I always like to have tall friends, 'cause I'm not tall.
He was the 7th-string quarterback, so there was no hype with Tommy back then.
Nobody knew who he was. But Tommy just worked hard at it.
And after a while, after like three years, he finally won the job
- and became the starting quarterback. - [cheering]
[announcer] Senior quarterback Tom Brady brings the Wolverines out.
[announcer 2] He's a fifth-year senior, so he's paid his dues.
His teammates really appreciate him and they made him one of their captains.
[Brady] My teammates made me captain, which showed me,
"Tom, we believe in you. You're our leader."
But the coach wanted, you know, this other guy to succeed, Drew Henson.
[analyst] There's Drew Henson. It's a tough decision.
You've got two very qualified quarterbacks.
[Brady] He was a great player, great athlete.
I mean, faster than I was, stronger, quicker.
More elusive. You know, better arm.
Coach Carr said, "All right, Tom, you're gonna start the games.
Drew's gonna come in and play from time to time."
And he said he was going to go with the hot-hand.
Who's our starting quarterback?
What time's the game?
Three-thirty?
You'll see then.
[announcer] We've got Drew Henson.
Fires, first down. You talk about a rifle arm.
He'd come in and everyone was screaming, "Drew Henson, Drew Henson."
That was a really tough experience.
[Flannelly] I'll never forget one of the media days at Michigan.
All the players go out and they sign autographs for the fans.
It's all going on the football field.
Drew Henson had a line from the end zone to the 50-yard line
of people to sign autographs for.
Tommy, I think, in an hour, and I sat with him most of it,
I think he signed less than five autographs.
One of them was my niece.
And the best part of this thing is Tom is watching the line with Drew Henson.
And if you know...
We've probably talked about the Tom Brady look of death.
This was the birth of the Tom Brady look of death.
[crowd cheers]
[announcer] The crowd now recognizing the fact Henson has come on the field.
Tom Brady, man, it's got to hurt him to come out of a game like this.
He doesn't look like a happy camper.
This is a player who has felt overlooked his entire life.
From college to the way he'd been drafted.
Brady will never be over
feeling like the guy who didn't get picked.
[crowd chants]
[reporter] It's the week we've been waiting for.
Week five of the NFL season marks the return of Tom Brady at quarterback.
[analyst] Are you surprised at a 39-year-old being able to do this?
You know, when is Father Time gonna catch up with him?
[announcer] I mean, is Tom Brady in his first game back,
after claiming he was unfairly punished,
is that guy who has seen the team go 3 and 1
and hear things about Garoppolo,
that he's the quarterback of the future...
Is that Tom Brady gonna be motivated?
Yeah.
[cheering]
Let's go.
[crowd jeers]
Loser!
Cheater!
Cheater! You stink!
From my standpoint, I was pretty intent on,
you know, going to earn it again and prove it.
Don't argue, just go do it. We'll show 'em.
Let's get this shit, fellas!
[Princiotti] The fact that he felt like the league was out to get him.
Cheater!
[Princiotti] Everybody outside of Boston hated him even more.
[man] Look at him! What a pompous moron!
[Princiotti] This is a part of his identity.
You can check the footballs and the air pressure all you want.
It's not gonna matter. We're here to win. Not going anywhere.
[roars]
[Princiotti] That season, it was like a song from Taylor Swift.
He was like, "Look what you made me do."
[Brady] It was an FEA year.
[producer] FEA?
Fuck 'em all, baby. Said that for a long time.
They're not pulling for us anyway.
["Look What You Made Me Do" by Taylor Swift playing]
[announcer] Brady, throws deep down field and connects with Chris Hogan.
Brady, throwing at the goal line. Touchdown.
[Stephen A Smith] This dude is on another level to begin with.
I'm scared as hell of Brady right now.
[song continues]
[Amendola] You can tell he was fucking angry.
Let's go, baby! Let's go win this motherfucker, huh?
And we're like, the king is back. Here he goes.
Watch him fucking get pissed off and go.
[song continues]
[announcer] A perfect throw by Brady.
[Howard Bryant] Don't underestimate someone who's got something to prove.
Somebody playing with a certain anger level, a certain fury.
[announcer] Corner of the end zone, touchdown.
A certain need for recompense.
[man] Cheater!
Brady sucks!
[announcer] Tom throws down the left seam for Gronkowski, into the end zone.
Good job, TB! Good shit!
What a throw!
[Slater] During that season, Tom was unbelievable.
[Brady] Fucking assholes.
End these fucking assholes' season.
[Slater] But Coach Belichick being Coach Belichick,
held Tom to even a higher standard than everyone else.
[reporter] Your expectations, did he play above that?
Or about what you expected?
Our expectations are to come out here and perform well as a team and win.
Do I think Tom felt disrespected? Uh, yeah, I think so.
I don't think I would want to be treated differently,
but I would expect a certain level of respect.
Especially as a grown man.
But what that does for Tom Brady,
that's gonna add fire to an already burning inferno.
[announcer] Welcome to Foxborough for this AFC divisional playoff.
Brady, left foot forward. Lobs a throw to the end zone.
Touchdown!
The Patriots are on their way to a sixth straight AFC Championship game.
[song ends]
[staff member] Great job.
- We're going to the champ! - Hell, yeah.
Yeah, good shit, man.
[players chatter]
All right, men, so we're just telling you now,
we're gonna have to play a lot better than that next time we play.
We meet at one o'clock on Tuesday and then we'll watch this game, which,
you know, there's gonna be some things that aren't fucking great.
Giving the ball away like it's going out of style.
Missing tackles, can't block a three-man rush.
All right, fortunately, we made enough plays to win,
but I'm just telling you, it won't last. It will not last.
[Slater] It just seemed like at times with Belichick,
I felt like we lost the game even though we won.
It was brutal.
Not only was he critical of every player in there,
but he was extremely critical of Tom.
You see a lot of coaches in the league
and the love affair they have with their star players.
And Bill's never been that way.
[Belichick] This is a repeat performance now. We're getting beat on the same shit
that we've been beat on before.
Don't sit there and think that it's not a problem.
It's a problem.
[Donté Stallworth] When I first got to New England,
I was surprised how Belichick treated Brady.
I remember one time,
he's showing all these lowlights... They were not highlights. They were lowlights.
The dropped passes, the fumbles, the missed blocks, the missed tackles.
The first lowlight that he showed was of Tom Brady.
And he turns around and looks at Brady, and he says...
"What the fuck is this shit?"
And he plays it again and he looks back halfway... [chuckles]
...and he turns and he says,
"I can get Johnny fucking Foxborough from down the street
to make a better throw than this."
[Belichick] Wide open, don't see it, then I'm getting sack.
And should we have it? Yeah. Do we have it? No.
[Randy Moss] I remember one time Bill tore Brady's head completely off,
decapitated Brady.
He said, "You guys are telling me that my Hall of Fame quarterback
cannot complete a 5-yard out?"
[Slater] "I mean, the quarterback play here, it's just awful.
This stinks."
And I'm sitting there, I'm sure my mouth was wide open.
Because I'm like, "Man, that's Tom Brady.
This guy has won four Super Bowls."
But I think that speaks to Bill, right? To him, nobody's bigger than the team.
He's gonna coach everybody the same,
because he feels like that's gonna give the team the best chance to have success.
And honestly, he's not worried about hurting anybody's feelings.
He really doesn't care.
Like, "If you're offended, get out. I'll find somebody else."
[Wes Welker] You know, Tom, he very easily could have been like,
"All right, Bill. Screw you, man. Play somebody else week one."
I personally talked to Tom and was like, "You're a, uh...
Basically, an abused dog.
You just sit there, you know, tail between your legs.
You just keep on coming back."
[Kraft] Tom and I had a number of discussions about how Bill treated him.
Tommy is very sensitive.
He was always looking for Bill's approval,
almost in a father/son kind of way.
And it's not Bill's style ever to give that.
[reporter] The Patriots are vying for a fifth Super Bowl title
in the Tom Brady and Bill Belichick era.
[Ernie Adams] Bill made it very clear he wasn't gonna be overly concerned
with Tom's emotions and feelings.
You know, you're in the Super Bowl.
The pain is temporary.
The championship is forever.
Losing the championship is forever too.
[reporter] There's a lot of conversation,
and a lot of it's gonna revolve around Tom Brady.
Legacy always comes up around this time of year.
[reporter 2] I think if he wins this game,
you'd have to consider him the best quarterback of the Super Bowl era.
[Amendola] I remember before the Super Bowl,
Tom was definitely going through a lot off the field.
And he had everything really swirling around his head.
[crowd cheers]
[Amendola] But at the end of the day,
Tom really was the heart and the soul of our team.
- [Brady] I love you, man. - [Amendola] I love you, baby!
You know, we worked for Bill, but we played for Tom.
[announcer] The New England Patriots have once again
blazed a path to the biggest stage in sports.
[Troy Aikman] Thirty-nine-year-old Tom Brady told us this week
he's in the best football shape of his entire life.
[Joe Buck] In a season that started with a four-game suspension,
Tom Brady trying to make history here tonight
and become the first quarterback to ever win five Super Bowls.
- Let's go! - [crowd cheers]
Let's go!
[Buck] Three-time Super Bowl MVP. You think he's fired up?
[cheering]
[Buck] We're gonna see what Tom Brady
and the offense for the New England Patriots has in store.
[announcer] It's such a young Atlanta team.
A lot of these guys grew up watching Tom Brady operate in a Super Bowl.
[Buck] They're gonna be tested unlike ever before.
The pass incomplete for Edelman. And he got popped.
[Brady] I knew it was gonna be an aggressive game.
[Buck] Brady. Sacked in midfield.
But I didn't think that their pass rush would be as good as it was.
Those dudes were flying around.
- [grunts] - [Buck] And down he goes again!
[announcer] That is a great start for this young defensive unit.
[Buck] Not what Tom Brady had in mind.
[Julian Edelman] You could feel their sideline was getting excited.
[coach] Go attack, D! That ball ain't come out yet, Keith.
[Edelman] It felt like they were gonna do some dirt,
gonna do some damage. They're gonna blow you up.
[Buck] This Falcons team playing at a little different speed
than what the Patriots have been. Freeman. What a cut!
Touchdown, Atlanta!
[crowd cheers]
[announcer] And Atlanta has grabbed the lead in Super Bowl 51.
[Buck] Seven to nothing.
All right, look. Any time we see the outside runs,
we can't over-pursue these guys. We know they can cut all the way back.
I'm just saying when they stretch it
we gotta go right there.
Read the mesh point and then go up.
All week, Bill kept telling us
this is the type of team that we can't fall behind,
14 to 3, or 21-10.
[Buck] Ryan. End zone.
Pass is caught for the touchdown.
- [cheering] - [Buck] This is a 14 to nothing game.
No team has ever come back
from a two touchdown deficit to win a Super Bowl.
[Belichick] We'd dug ourselves in a hole.
It was just too many mistakes, uh, on our end,
and Atlanta, obviously being a good football team, able to capitalize on them.
It was just bad football.
[Buck] Brady, with protection, misses Julian Edelman who was wide open.
[player] We about to put up 40-something on their ass.
They ain't never seen anything like this.
It's Tom Brady though.
I know. I'm never comfortable.
[Buck] Fourteen to nothing on Atlanta's 23.
Brady gets the snap from Andrews.
[Brady] I drop back to throw a pass.
You know, I remember that ball coming off my hand...
...and then you realize, "Oh, shit!"
[Buck] Intercepted!
Coming back up the field is Robert Alford.
Alford, 40, 30, 20, 15,
10, 5.
He will walk into the end zone on an 81-yard pick 6.
[announcer] They just completely fooled the veteran quarterback.
[Brady] I threw an interception return for a touchdown in the Super Bowl.
It's fucking as bad a play as you can make.
You know, when that happens, it just goes into your mind, like,
"Fuck, man. If we lose this game...
...that's all they're gonna wanna talk about."
You know, me being... washed up.
[Buck] What more can go wrong for New England?
Eight-31 to play in the third.
Atlanta 28, New England 3.
[Kraft] It was utter shock.
You know, that's a...
Just the worst thing you can imagine for Tommy
and, you know, his legacy.
It was shocking.
You could have heard a pin drop in that press box.
The very early edition of the Boston Globe had to go to press
before the game was over,
and there's Brady on the cover.
He'd just thrown a pick, he'd fallen on his face.
And you're wondering, is this the end for Brady?
[Princiotti] Maybe Belichick was right.
Quarterbacks at the end of their career
go from really good to really bad, really fast.
[Dante Scarnecchia] Goddamn, fellas, we gotta do better than that.
Fuck!
There's no fucking excuses for that shit.
[Curran] By the time they're down 28 to 3,
you know, there's really very little to hang your hat on.
Yes, you can look at times the Patriots came back,
but 28 to 3 is 28 to 3.
Nobody's come back that much in the Super Bowl in NFL history.
Good job. It's gonna take all night. Gonna take all night. Good job, bro.
[Buck] This young Atlanta team loving it. Up by 25.
[Scott Pioli] In 2016, I worked for the Falcons
as the assistant general manager.
When we were up 28 to 3, I'm watching the game.
We had a suite for the entire personnel department.
All the folks I'm working with, they're high-fiving,
and everyone, it's... You know, out of control.
But I was a mess.
I felt this nervousness.
And as I'm sitting there, someone slaps me on the back and says,
"Come on, Scott, lighten up. You gotta enjoy this moment."
And... I just erupted.
I whipped around and I said, "You effing people don't get it.
That guy number 12 across the field is Freddy effing Krueger.
He's coming back...
...and he's gonna get a bunch of us.
I just hope he doesn't get us all."
[Buck] It would be an unprecedented comeback
if the Patriots climb out of this hole.
Down by 25.
Second down and 7.
Brady, pass is caught.
The tackle is missed, and a first down for James White.
Brady... has a man, first down.
Big conversion, Amendola.
[Kyle Van Noy] Fucking go! Let's go!
[announcer] Fires left. Catch made by White. Cuts to the inside.
Dives across the goal line. Touchdown, Patriots!
[crowd cheers]
[Aikman] And maybe, just maybe, there's the one you need.
[McDaniels] We can score on 'em, we know that.
It's just a matter of how many times can we do it before the clock says zero?
[Buck] Thirty-three-yard try,
and Gostkowski has made this a 16-point game.
[assistant coach] Let's go! Nice job!
Let's just keep going.
Fast and aggressive.
[Buck] Out of the shotgun, Ryan.
Gets hit! Ball is out.
- This is a fumble. - [whistle blows]
- [Buck] New England has it! - Yeah!
[cheering]
Let's go make 'em pay, fellas. Let's go make 'em pay!
Gotta lock in now, laser focus.
[McDaniels] Tom, he never even flinched,
never gave an indication of, "It's too insurmountable". Never.
[Buck] Down by 16 points with just over 7 to go.
- Patriots! - Come on, Pats!
Come on, TB 12!
[Amendola] I remember looking up at the clock and we're down 16.
[Buck] Backs up, looks left, throws it for Amendola.
Touchdown, Patriots!
[Amendola] Tom hit me and it was like,
"All right, I can take one more breath."
[Buck] And Brady tells the world they're going for 2.
Direct snap to James White, runs up the middle.
He's in for 2!
[cheering]
[analyst] New England is back in business, 28-20.
Everybody relax. All right, let's go attack again next play.
[McCourty] Once we started rolling,
Atlanta starts to get the, "Oh, man. Here they come."
Like, "We knew it was going to happen. Now what?"
Hey, no fear.
No fear. Cut it loose.
We gotta play tougher. Harder, tougher, everything.
Everything we got!
[crowd cheers and whistles]
[Buck] If they go 91 yards here, they'll have a chance to tie it.
[Edelman] Gotta believe, bro.
- [Amendola] Let's go. - Gotta believe.
Gotta believe, boys.
[announcer] Let this quarterback get the surgical knife out, and let's go.
Nobody else you want to have it in his hands.
[Edelman] We started driving.
I was pretty confident Tom was gonna come my way.
But I rushed my route.
I didn't run a good route.
And I look over my shoulder.
I just remember the DB's eyes.
And I see him looking at the ball, and I'm like, "Oh, shit."
Interception.
We're gonna fucking lose this Super Bowl.
[Buck] There's Edelman, it's broken up and the pass is...
no sign yet.
[whistle blows]
[Edelman] I caught it! I caught it! I caught it!
Crazy, I swear to God!
- No way, look at that. - Watch.
- It was on the ground! - No.
[Edelman] The fate of the team is in that play's hands.
Everything happened so fast, it's all reaction.
[Buck] Oh, that's a catch!
- [Aikman] Oh, my God! - [Buck] That's incredible.
I tell you right now, I had to check my pants after that play,
because that could have been the game.
After review, the ruling on the field is confirmed.
- [crowd cheers] - The receiver's hand is under the ball.
The ball never hits the ground.
[McDaniels] Jules comes up with the ball there.
It was like, "This is meant to be."
Now this is fate that we're going to tie the game.
[announcer] Tom takes the snap. He backs up, hands it to White.
Up the middle! Touchdown, the Patriots!
[announcer 2] I cannot believe what I'm witnessing.
[Buck] And now the biggest 2-point attempt
in the history of the Patriots franchise.
[announcer] Fifty-seven seconds to go, and 2 for the tie.
Tom takes the snap. Quick throw to Amendola. Screen left.
Reaches across the goal line. It's a tie game in Super Bowl 51!
[announcer] That ties the game at 28, with 57 seconds to go in regulation.
[Slater] You don't think you're gonna lose a game when you're up 28-3,
but unfortunately for those guys, they had to find out,
when you're playing against Tom Brady in front of national TV
with millions watching, that the game ain't over until the game's over.
[Buck] Here comes Tom Brady.
The momentum of the game clearly on the side of the New England Patriots.
[Bryant] Tom Brady can do things we cannot do.
[Buck] Brady. What a throw to Amendola!
[Bryant] That ability to bend a game to your will.
[Buck] Pass is caught, Hogan.
[Bryant] And when you're watching Brady,
you're watching a master.
[Buck] Patriots win Super Bowl 51 with a touchdown right here.
[Brady] Green nineteen. Hut! Hut!
[announcer] Toss sweep for James White. Tucks it under the right arm.
Cuts it upfield. Driving forward. Diving to the goal line!
A touchdown!
[cheering]
[announcer] They have completed the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history.
[Aikman] Thirty-one unanswered points.
What an amazing, stunning end. [whistle blows repeatedly]
[Aikman] As the Falcons just sit there in disbelief.
[Princiotti] That Falcons Super Bowl was so magical and strange.
They've continued the dynasty. They've done it on the back of their quarterback.
But I think winning that game was a turning point in Brady's identity.
Now he has to be considered the greatest player of all time.
[Buck] No quarterback had ever won five Super Bowls until tonight.
Tom Brady has.
Don't ever count Tom Brady out. Best ever?
[Aikman] The best ever in my book.
[Buck] Look at Brady. One more ring.
Well, I think Tom's performance,
like everybody else's, is related to other things besides him.
But there's not many guys can do what Tom Brady did, uh,
especially at that point in his career.
- [Brady] Hey, man! - [LeGarrette Blount] Oh, my God!
- [Brady] I love you guys! - Oh, my God!
[Blount] What a game! You are the greatest of all fucking time.
[Belichick] That's why we're here.
You're the greatest! And you're the fucking greatest!
You're the fucking greatest, bro.
[Brady] Finally, I felt like there was some closure to the saga.
All the best, man.
Unbelievable.
[Brady] We made our point.
I love you, baby. So much.
[Brady] And I could now start chasing what I set out to chase.
I think I was chasing what I deemed to be my... my potential.
I said I was gonna play till my mid-40s.
So, let me just go to work and let my play do the talking.
[crowd boos and jeers]
Robert, you know how hard these are to get.
[booing continues]
And this is your fifth under your leadership,
Coach Belichick and Tom Brady.
We're so proud of you. Take your Super Bowl trophy home to New England.
[crowd cheers]
[Kraft] A lot has transpired during the last two years.
And I don't think that needs any explanation.
[cheering]
This is unequivocally the sweetest.
[Bryant] This is a new period of dominance.
Coach Belichick, up over here, on my side, Coach.
[Bryant] But if you're Bill Belichick, you're watching Brady
and you're wondering, "Is it time?"
Or do you let him run as long as he needs to run?
[indistinct stadium announcement]
And if you're Tom Brady, you're like, "I'll decide when it's time.
Look what I've done."
[Terry Bradshaw] Well, I got the greatest coach in the NFL,
might as well have the greatest quarterback. Tom Brady!
[Bryant] "I am not only the greatest player in the franchise's history,
I'm the greatest player to ever play."
- We're bringing this sucker home! - [crowd cheers]
[Bryant] These are the two titanic figures of this franchise.
But... they are two alphas.
And with two egos and personalities and accomplishments at that level...
...a collision was inevitable.
["Bodak Yellow" by Cardi B playing]
[song fades out]