Tom Brady Shares How He Spent His Week 1 Suspension

Instead, he kept up on all the latest action happening around the league.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady complimented his replacement, Jimmy Garoppolo, for a solid performance in the team’s 23-21 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday night.

Not only were the Patriots without Brady, suspended for his role in “Deflategate”, but they also didn’t have tight end Rob Gronkowski, defensive end Rob Ninkovich and two starters on the offensive line.

Lots of people talk a big game about what winners they are.

“That was a great team win”, Garoppolo said from the middle of the huddle. “There was no doubt in this locker room that Jimmy could go out there and play”. “.it’s only one game right now so we got to just keep it going, keep stringing them together, keep stringing days together and good things will happen”.

It was fun to watch football on Sunday.

Winston then led the Bucs to touchdowns on four of the next five drives and finished the day 23 for 33, for 281 yards with four touchdowns and an interception and finished with a quarterback rating of 122.6.

That Patriots TD drive came after Arians uncharacteristically declined to go for it on fourth-and-one near midfield in Arizona’s first possession. I wish we could have put it through for our teammates.

“We were 50 percent on third down but it wasn’t good enough”, Arians said. “If you don’t get nervous, it doesn’t mean that much to you”. An unexpected loss to an undermanned team you could face again come February on the opening night of the year reminds everyone that reading your own press clippings and buying into them can turn into any team’s Achilles heel no matter how great. Still, Garoppolo didn’t seem to mind the jump to meaningful action. “A lot of times, you don’t get to see those things until after when you watch it on film”.

It’s a mix, I guess. Everybody on this team is confident in him. That should serve the Patriots well the next three weeks in home games against Miami, Houston and Buffalo. “He is a guy that can change the complexion of the game in one touch”.

“We got to regroup”, he said. New England was also given a 59 percent chance to win the division before the start of the regular season.

“Just an old-fashioned miss”, Catanzaro said.

Head coach Bruce Arians, who previous year led the Cardinals to their first postseason victory since 2009, was also blunt about his team’s performance on national television (via Boston.com).

“It’s a tough environment to play in”, Brady said.

Jimmy Garoppolo and the Patriots will look to continue the success with the next three games at home. He’s classy, ask Ben Affleck, he’s on our team now, it’s not a hassle. He responded pretty much as expected. Like, there’s really nothing higher on my list than the story line tomorrow.

While Brady remembered the Patriots on Facebook, the team has made a decision to get rid of a massive banner of him they had installed to show their respect for the future Hall of Famer. He was just an average spectator in special teams, missed two tackles. That’s what I saw in the game.