1 00:00:13,764 --> 00:00:15,891 And with ten seconds left... 2 00:00:18,227 --> 00:00:20,437 ...at stake is the perfect season. 3 00:00:39,957 --> 00:00:42,918 The Giants have won the Super Bowl. 4 00:00:50,509 --> 00:00:54,263 Losing the 2007 Super Bowl was devastating. 5 00:00:55,722 --> 00:00:58,100 I was like, "What the fuck?" 6 00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:00,936 That year, we dominated. We destroyed teams. 7 00:01:01,770 --> 00:01:03,397 How did we lose? 8 00:01:04,690 --> 00:01:07,234 {\an8}If there's one game in history I'd change, it's that game. 9 00:01:07,734 --> 00:01:08,735 But we can't change it. 10 00:01:10,988 --> 00:01:14,241 I think what you realize about football and about life 11 00:01:14,241 --> 00:01:17,244 is you never have it quite mastered. 12 00:01:18,954 --> 00:01:21,373 It was a tough lesson for me to learn. 13 00:01:29,548 --> 00:01:32,217 You know, I think back to last season... 14 00:01:32,217 --> 00:01:35,095 I know that you've heard me say, "Last year doesn't mean anything. 15 00:01:35,095 --> 00:01:38,265 We don't care about last year." 16 00:01:38,265 --> 00:01:41,977 {\an8}But I hope that you will never forget those 16 wins. 17 00:01:42,769 --> 00:01:45,772 You know, I've been through five and 11. I've been through seven and nine. 18 00:01:45,772 --> 00:01:48,942 Those... Those are the seasons you want to forget, believe me, 19 00:01:48,942 --> 00:01:50,986 not the 16 and 0 ones. 20 00:01:54,990 --> 00:01:56,950 Coach, can I say something? 21 00:01:56,950 --> 00:01:58,493 Sure can. 22 00:01:58,493 --> 00:02:01,747 As I reflect back on last season, 23 00:02:01,747 --> 00:02:03,624 we didn't finish the way we wanted, 24 00:02:03,624 --> 00:02:08,127 but we know what we shared, and, you know, I hope we learned from it. 25 00:02:08,127 --> 00:02:11,173 And I hope we take it forward. I always get emotional, 26 00:02:11,173 --> 00:02:14,343 so, just thinking about things I really care about. 27 00:02:14,343 --> 00:02:16,136 So... Thank you. 28 00:02:18,931 --> 00:02:21,099 Anybody else has anything they'd like to say about the season, 29 00:02:21,099 --> 00:02:22,809 now is a great time to say it. 30 00:02:22,809 --> 00:02:24,561 Because we're moving on. 31 00:02:30,442 --> 00:02:34,571 Good afternoon, on a beautiful September day in New England. 32 00:02:34,571 --> 00:02:35,989 A perfect day for football, 33 00:02:35,989 --> 00:02:39,576 and a perfect day to open the 2008 Patriots season. 34 00:02:39,576 --> 00:02:41,745 - Let's go! - Yeah, baby. 35 00:02:41,745 --> 00:02:44,081 We know what we need to do. Win on three. 36 00:02:44,081 --> 00:02:45,165 - One, two, three! - Win! 37 00:03:04,434 --> 00:03:05,686 Hike! 38 00:03:06,937 --> 00:03:09,022 Quick pass by Brady. 39 00:03:09,022 --> 00:03:10,691 And that's a first down. 40 00:03:13,068 --> 00:03:15,737 I was really prepared to go back and have a great season. 41 00:03:17,322 --> 00:03:19,116 We had a lot of the same team, so we thought, 42 00:03:19,116 --> 00:03:21,201 all right, there's a redemption here for us. 43 00:03:22,452 --> 00:03:24,288 Brady, throwing. 44 00:03:24,288 --> 00:03:27,332 And a bullet from Tom Terrific. 45 00:03:27,332 --> 00:03:30,043 Hopes are high that this will be the season 46 00:03:30,043 --> 00:03:31,962 that they're going to go all the way. 47 00:03:35,048 --> 00:03:37,467 Tom Brady got hit right on the knee! 48 00:03:38,427 --> 00:03:43,557 Tom Brady took a tremendous hit right on his left leg. 49 00:03:43,557 --> 00:03:46,852 And Patriot Nation, right now, is holding its collective breath. 50 00:03:57,779 --> 00:04:01,116 I got hit just as my foot was planting. 51 00:04:01,116 --> 00:04:03,827 You know, my knee got completely crushed. 52 00:04:05,204 --> 00:04:08,290 I've always said that whenever I got hit, I was the first one up. 53 00:04:08,957 --> 00:04:12,085 That was my only way to really display toughness, 54 00:04:12,085 --> 00:04:15,214 was when I did get hit, I made sure they didn't know that it hurt. 55 00:04:15,214 --> 00:04:19,301 But it just... The pain just kept going. It was super intense. 56 00:04:20,928 --> 00:04:23,931 The doctor ran out and checked my knee, 57 00:04:23,931 --> 00:04:27,559 and I could just tell by the look on his eyes, like, I knew what it meant. 58 00:04:28,435 --> 00:04:31,563 Tom Brady being helped off the field. 59 00:04:31,563 --> 00:04:33,524 Well, right now, everyone here 60 00:04:33,524 --> 00:04:36,109 is wondering how badly Tom Brady is hurt. 61 00:04:37,653 --> 00:04:40,864 I think the biggest worry you ever have, 62 00:04:40,864 --> 00:04:45,577 {\an8}going to watch your loved one play football, is injury. 63 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,957 Tommy's had so many injuries. 64 00:04:49,957 --> 00:04:52,000 And he played through 'em. 65 00:04:53,377 --> 00:04:57,172 But we just knew... this was different. 66 00:05:11,228 --> 00:05:13,355 Of course, we feel badly for Tom, 67 00:05:13,355 --> 00:05:16,775 about the injury and... you hate to see anyone go down. 68 00:05:16,775 --> 00:05:20,404 Nobody's worked harder and done more for this team than Tom has, 69 00:05:20,404 --> 00:05:24,157 so it's a tough setback for him. You know, he played one position. 70 00:05:24,157 --> 00:05:27,494 He played it very well and there'll be somebody else playing that position now 71 00:05:27,494 --> 00:05:31,123 and everybody else has to continue to do their job, just like they always have. 72 00:05:31,123 --> 00:05:32,875 Like they always need to. 73 00:05:32,875 --> 00:05:34,835 How did Tom take the news? 74 00:05:36,712 --> 00:05:38,630 Probably like you'd expect. 75 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:44,344 Fans of the New England Patriots 76 00:05:44,344 --> 00:05:46,555 got the news they were dreading today. 77 00:05:46,555 --> 00:05:50,809 Quarterback Tom Brady's injury will keep him sidelined for the entire season. 78 00:05:50,809 --> 00:05:53,645 The New England Patriots' record-breaking quarterback 79 00:05:53,645 --> 00:05:56,982 has a torn ACL, a vital ligament in his left knee. 80 00:05:56,982 --> 00:06:00,527 Is this a speed-bump or a major, major blip here? 81 00:06:00,527 --> 00:06:01,778 It's a major blip. 82 00:06:01,778 --> 00:06:06,742 You have no idea how he comes back from an injury of this magnitude. 83 00:06:08,493 --> 00:06:11,538 Post-game, I went to visit Tommy. 84 00:06:12,706 --> 00:06:19,004 {\an8}And his leg was propped up on pillows and he was like a... 85 00:06:19,755 --> 00:06:21,465 ...young man sobbing. 86 00:06:27,012 --> 00:06:30,182 It was, uh... It was tough. It was a really tough moment. 87 00:06:32,267 --> 00:06:35,229 It was a big injury. My ACL tore. 88 00:06:35,229 --> 00:06:39,525 You know, you'd watch a lot of other quarterbacks' ACLs over the years. 89 00:06:39,525 --> 00:06:41,235 It's a season-ending injury, 90 00:06:41,235 --> 00:06:44,947 but I went into Coach Belichick's office and I said, 91 00:06:44,947 --> 00:06:47,866 "I want to play. I'll fix my ACL at the end of the year. 92 00:06:47,866 --> 00:06:51,662 I could just put a brace on it. I'll tape it and play the whole season." 93 00:06:53,497 --> 00:06:56,583 I remember after he hurt his knee. 94 00:06:57,167 --> 00:06:59,419 Tom Brady's throwing the football. 95 00:07:01,088 --> 00:07:05,342 I was like, "Dude, you just tore your knee and you're out here." 96 00:07:05,342 --> 00:07:09,137 {\an8}So I said, "Damn, dawg! Is it going... going to be okay?" 97 00:07:11,098 --> 00:07:13,350 Next thing you know, he goes in the training room 98 00:07:13,350 --> 00:07:15,227 to get the thumbs up or the thumbs down. 99 00:07:15,227 --> 00:07:18,647 He comes back, slams his playbook, and then he starts cussing. 100 00:07:18,647 --> 00:07:21,692 He's like, "I'm sorry. I'm not gonna be out there with you today." 101 00:07:21,692 --> 00:07:27,030 You know, something like that. It was hard for him to accept. 102 00:07:29,074 --> 00:07:31,034 I ain't seen him no more after that. That was it. 103 00:07:33,245 --> 00:07:35,914 I don't think Tommy had missed a game 104 00:07:35,914 --> 00:07:39,501 in all the seasons since he started playing, 105 00:07:39,501 --> 00:07:43,505 and now he's done for the season. 106 00:07:43,505 --> 00:07:48,969 I think his own vulnerability really kicked in big-time... 107 00:07:50,053 --> 00:07:53,891 ...because he had observed, over the years, 108 00:07:53,891 --> 00:07:57,352 the modus operandi of our head coach. 109 00:07:57,978 --> 00:08:00,063 All players were expendable. 110 00:08:00,898 --> 00:08:03,150 Bill was all business. 111 00:08:03,150 --> 00:08:05,444 He's cold. He's calculating. 112 00:08:07,070 --> 00:08:10,991 {\an8}If you're no good to go on the field, if you're not capable, 113 00:08:10,991 --> 00:08:14,286 you're no good to the team. You're just out of sight, out of mind. 114 00:08:14,995 --> 00:08:17,331 Bledsoe rolls to the right. 115 00:08:18,457 --> 00:08:19,958 He got whacked. 116 00:08:21,710 --> 00:08:25,380 {\an8}Tom Brady, the second-year quarterback in the game. 117 00:08:25,380 --> 00:08:28,592 {\an8}I think that there's probably an element for Tom 118 00:08:28,592 --> 00:08:31,845 of how he got his job that has driven him. 119 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,390 {\an8}It was like, "Wow, you know, I was there with Drew, and Drew was the guy. 120 00:08:36,390 --> 00:08:40,187 {\an8}He came off the field for a second. Next thing, he didn't have his job anymore. 121 00:08:40,854 --> 00:08:43,357 I can never come off the field, because if I do, 122 00:08:43,357 --> 00:08:45,526 man, that next guy might be waiting in the wings." 123 00:08:48,487 --> 00:08:51,406 1999, Trent Green got hurt. 124 00:08:51,406 --> 00:08:53,867 Warner took 'em to the Super Bowl. 125 00:08:53,867 --> 00:08:56,537 2001, Bledsoe got hurt. 126 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,164 Brady took us to the Super Bowl. 127 00:08:59,164 --> 00:09:02,835 That's the way it's gonna be, Cassel. Then we're riding your shoulders. 128 00:09:03,961 --> 00:09:05,712 Let's go! 129 00:09:10,342 --> 00:09:13,011 That week after the Chiefs game was insane, 130 00:09:13,011 --> 00:09:15,722 because we just lost Tom Brady. 131 00:09:16,723 --> 00:09:20,060 {\an8}And now I have the task of going out and composing myself 132 00:09:20,060 --> 00:09:21,687 {\an8}and needing to lead this team. 133 00:09:22,187 --> 00:09:24,857 And I was like, "Oh, my gosh!" 134 00:09:26,525 --> 00:09:28,360 It's a daunting task, 135 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:32,072 and I knew that we were just at the tip of the iceberg. 136 00:09:32,990 --> 00:09:36,451 And then all the noise starts. All the noise starts. 137 00:09:36,451 --> 00:09:37,828 {\an8}Is Cassel Brady? 138 00:09:37,828 --> 00:09:40,038 {\an8}Let's not trip. I mean, let's not, come on now. 139 00:09:40,038 --> 00:09:44,042 This offense was built for Tom Brady, tailor-made, 140 00:09:44,042 --> 00:09:48,964 and now they have that personnel with a guy who hasn't played since high school. 141 00:09:48,964 --> 00:09:51,091 Stop me if I tell a lie. 142 00:09:51,091 --> 00:09:54,011 Every major media outlet wanted to make sure 143 00:09:54,011 --> 00:09:55,888 that everybody in the world knew 144 00:09:55,888 --> 00:09:58,599 that I hadn't started a game since I was in high school. 145 00:09:58,599 --> 00:10:02,811 The last time Matt Cassel started a game in the national spotlight 146 00:10:02,811 --> 00:10:08,317 was 14 years ago, as a first baseman at the Little League World Series. 147 00:10:08,317 --> 00:10:11,320 Why didn't the Patriots get a veteran back-up? The answer is, 148 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:12,696 Belichick honestly believes 149 00:10:12,696 --> 00:10:15,324 this kid gives him a better chance to win a game. 150 00:10:22,497 --> 00:10:25,542 This is really the grand experiment. 151 00:10:26,210 --> 00:10:28,420 How much of it is Tom Brady? 152 00:10:29,254 --> 00:10:32,466 How much of it is Belichick and what he's built there? 153 00:10:45,521 --> 00:10:49,608 As a coach, replacing Tom Brady is... You know, that's a tough one. 154 00:10:50,192 --> 00:10:53,028 Tom's the greatest player of all time, 155 00:10:53,028 --> 00:10:56,448 but you always try to find a way to win. It's different from year to year. 156 00:10:56,448 --> 00:10:58,534 It's different with different players on the field. 157 00:10:59,076 --> 00:11:03,705 But every week I've always felt like there's a formula in there, somehow, 158 00:11:03,705 --> 00:11:05,832 {\an8}that gives you the best opportunity as a team to win. 159 00:11:07,125 --> 00:11:11,171 J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets! 160 00:11:11,171 --> 00:11:13,507 It's the Patriots and The Jets. 161 00:11:13,507 --> 00:11:15,717 It's hot and humid at Giants stadium. 162 00:11:18,846 --> 00:11:22,683 What will life be like for the Patriots after Tom Brady? 163 00:11:27,229 --> 00:11:30,774 I remember the pressure I felt before I took the field. 164 00:11:30,774 --> 00:11:33,151 Coach Belichick walks up to me and he goes, 165 00:11:33,151 --> 00:11:35,362 "Matt, we're not bringing anybody else in. 166 00:11:35,362 --> 00:11:38,615 So don't worry about all the naysayers, all these people that are gonna question 167 00:11:38,615 --> 00:11:41,201 what we're doing at the quarterback position. 168 00:11:41,201 --> 00:11:43,620 You're gonna be fine. Just stay the course." 169 00:11:44,705 --> 00:11:46,999 Here's Matt Cassel under center, 170 00:11:46,999 --> 00:11:49,585 starting a game for the first time in his NFL career. 171 00:11:53,547 --> 00:11:56,216 He passed his first pass, and it's a good one. 172 00:11:56,216 --> 00:11:57,718 It's over to Faulk. 173 00:11:58,927 --> 00:12:02,514 Koppen snaps it back. And taking off with it, Cassel... 174 00:12:03,849 --> 00:12:05,559 That is a good job. 175 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:07,853 He's gonna pull it down and run. 176 00:12:07,853 --> 00:12:10,731 If you're a defender or a pass rusher, look out. 177 00:12:11,481 --> 00:12:15,360 Third and goal. It's Morris, up and in. 178 00:12:16,570 --> 00:12:19,865 Matt Cassel has got a win in his first start. 179 00:12:21,992 --> 00:12:23,785 That's what I'm talking about! 180 00:12:25,954 --> 00:12:28,749 Cassel, I know you haven't started a game since the fucking 7th grade. 181 00:12:30,042 --> 00:12:31,835 You started one today. 182 00:12:36,507 --> 00:12:39,760 As a coach, you always want to play in to the strength of your players, 183 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,847 not have a system and force the players to play the system. 184 00:12:44,848 --> 00:12:48,519 In Matt Cassel's case, he had a lot of talent, he was smart, 185 00:12:48,519 --> 00:12:51,939 and was very athletic, so we tried to tailor offense 186 00:12:51,939 --> 00:12:53,941 to Matt's strengths and his confidence. 187 00:12:54,733 --> 00:12:57,402 Third down and three, Patriots at their own 41. 188 00:12:57,402 --> 00:12:59,154 Snapped to Cassel. Steps up. 189 00:12:59,154 --> 00:13:01,782 He's gonna run for the first down to the 50-yard line. 190 00:13:01,782 --> 00:13:03,951 Stays on his feet to the Ram 48. 191 00:13:03,951 --> 00:13:06,578 Running the ball was a big part of my game. 192 00:13:07,663 --> 00:13:10,123 That's one element of the offense 193 00:13:10,123 --> 00:13:13,335 that I can honestly say, Brady could never run the ball. 194 00:13:13,919 --> 00:13:17,548 But I was a little bit quicker and Belichick recognized it. 195 00:13:18,298 --> 00:13:22,135 Then he changed our offensive scheme perfectly. 196 00:13:22,135 --> 00:13:24,805 Here's Cassel. He's gonna run it again. 197 00:13:24,805 --> 00:13:26,723 He's had success. And look at that! 198 00:13:26,723 --> 00:13:29,518 Skips away from a tackle and a first down. 199 00:13:29,518 --> 00:13:32,604 Compared to Tommy, that's a gazelle back there running. 200 00:13:32,604 --> 00:13:35,190 They're used to molasses coming out of the container. 201 00:13:35,190 --> 00:13:37,651 They got a gazelle back there now. They got to prepare for that. 202 00:13:38,151 --> 00:13:40,153 Cassel out of the shotgun. Steps up. He's gonna run it. 203 00:13:40,153 --> 00:13:42,573 To the ten, to the five, he's gonna run it in! 204 00:13:42,573 --> 00:13:44,199 Touchdown! Matt Cassel! 205 00:13:45,617 --> 00:13:48,453 Everyone thought Tom Brady goes down, they were done. 206 00:13:48,453 --> 00:13:52,165 Absolutely not true. Matt Cassel has shocked everyone. 207 00:13:52,624 --> 00:13:54,418 This is the mastery of Belichick. 208 00:13:54,418 --> 00:13:56,962 He takes what he has and he adapts. 209 00:14:00,591 --> 00:14:04,094 Tommy was just very vulnerable at that time. 210 00:14:04,678 --> 00:14:07,598 On the one hand, you like to see the Patriots do really well. 211 00:14:07,598 --> 00:14:10,058 {\an8}On the other hand, you're sitting on the sidelines 212 00:14:10,058 --> 00:14:13,520 {\an8}and the team's playing, and nobody wants to... 213 00:14:14,855 --> 00:14:16,815 {\an8}...feel like they're dispensable. 214 00:14:16,815 --> 00:14:19,318 How do we feel about Matt Cassel as starting quarterback? 215 00:14:19,318 --> 00:14:22,321 Oh, yeah! 216 00:14:23,739 --> 00:14:27,701 From the outside looking in, you realize the show still goes on. 217 00:14:29,244 --> 00:14:31,663 I was determined to get back to playing. 218 00:14:31,663 --> 00:14:35,918 {\an8}And three days after the surgery, I was trying to pretend like I was, 219 00:14:35,918 --> 00:14:37,211 {\an8}you know, superhuman. 220 00:14:37,211 --> 00:14:39,713 He caused an infection in his leg. 221 00:14:39,713 --> 00:14:44,301 A very severe infection that the doctor was very, very concerned about. 222 00:14:45,802 --> 00:14:48,639 But they had to go back in and do another surgery. 223 00:14:49,598 --> 00:14:51,141 I lost a lot of weight. 224 00:14:51,892 --> 00:14:53,227 I was very gray. 225 00:14:55,229 --> 00:14:58,690 I couldn't sleep. I couldn't sit... I just... 226 00:14:58,690 --> 00:15:01,151 I couldn't move my knee. It was so swollen, and... 227 00:15:01,151 --> 00:15:04,613 It was really... It was really tough. But I had great people there for me. 228 00:15:06,615 --> 00:15:10,619 {\an8}I remember flying out to help him through his ACL recovery. 229 00:15:10,619 --> 00:15:13,205 {\an8}You know, those are some tougher days. 230 00:15:13,205 --> 00:15:15,582 Those are a lot of days that, you know, an athlete, 231 00:15:15,582 --> 00:15:18,418 an elite athlete, who's done it at a high level, 232 00:15:18,418 --> 00:15:21,588 sit and think... You know, they've got nothing but time now. 233 00:15:22,339 --> 00:15:25,300 You think about the mortality of your sports career. 234 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:27,511 The Patriots win in overtime. 235 00:15:27,511 --> 00:15:31,056 "Alex, what if this is it? What if my knee is never the same?" 236 00:15:31,056 --> 00:15:33,433 Two Super Bowl championships... 237 00:15:33,433 --> 00:15:37,145 He was in his most low state, thinking he'll never play again. 238 00:15:39,523 --> 00:15:44,361 Tommy spent his whole life wanting to be a football player. 239 00:15:45,571 --> 00:15:50,701 And we as parents were not oblivious to football mortality. 240 00:15:50,701 --> 00:15:54,288 As he goes through this stuff, we go through this stuff with him, 241 00:15:54,288 --> 00:15:57,249 we go through the... the angst that, 242 00:15:57,249 --> 00:16:00,627 "You're not out there doing the job that you love to do." 243 00:16:02,546 --> 00:16:04,715 When Brady went down in the opening game, 244 00:16:04,715 --> 00:16:06,800 Cassel was able to step right in. 245 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,761 Cassel pulls it down, runs straight ahead to the end zone for the touchdown. 246 00:16:09,761 --> 00:16:10,804 Yeah! 247 00:16:10,804 --> 00:16:13,015 I think this kid's got a little innate toughness. 248 00:16:13,015 --> 00:16:17,686 Way to answer 'em. Hey, all day! Don't let up on that gas pedal. 249 00:16:17,686 --> 00:16:19,813 Cassel throwing for the corner of the end zone. 250 00:16:19,813 --> 00:16:22,191 Caught! A perfect throw! 251 00:16:23,066 --> 00:16:26,195 That's a statement made here today by the New England Patriots. 252 00:16:26,195 --> 00:16:30,073 New England leads it by ten as we start the fourth. 253 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:32,492 Hey! 254 00:16:32,492 --> 00:16:35,287 Sit down! Come on. Hey, fellas, we got a long way to go now. 255 00:16:36,496 --> 00:16:40,125 One of the big things that I've come to understand is that 256 00:16:40,125 --> 00:16:44,630 {\an8}no matter what the score was, we received humble pie from Belichick. 257 00:16:44,630 --> 00:16:46,465 I'm happy we won, 258 00:16:46,465 --> 00:16:49,384 and I'm happy you guys made the plays that you needed to make to win, 259 00:16:49,384 --> 00:16:52,930 but we gotta understand, we gotta be better than this... 260 00:16:52,930 --> 00:16:56,433 He cared more about what we didn't do right, because... 261 00:16:56,433 --> 00:16:58,477 everything is geared towards winning. 262 00:16:58,477 --> 00:17:01,313 Okay, and it's all of us. But we gotta do a better job. 263 00:17:01,313 --> 00:17:04,441 Most of the coaches in the NFL are coaching football 264 00:17:04,441 --> 00:17:05,983 and he's coaching warfare. 265 00:17:08,153 --> 00:17:10,446 He grew up in the Naval Academy. 266 00:17:11,031 --> 00:17:14,742 {\an8}His father, he was the coach there, and he learned a lot from him. 267 00:17:17,954 --> 00:17:21,791 It felt good to... just as a kid, hang around my dad 268 00:17:21,791 --> 00:17:25,838 and go over the film at night of the next team that Navy was going to play. 269 00:17:25,838 --> 00:17:29,216 It was really interesting for me to sit there and learn from him 270 00:17:29,216 --> 00:17:30,717 on approaching the game. 271 00:17:30,717 --> 00:17:33,762 {\an8}He just... he loved everything that his dad did. 272 00:17:34,596 --> 00:17:38,058 Anything that Steve did, he wanted to do. 273 00:17:38,058 --> 00:17:41,728 He wasn't a pest. He was there to learn. 274 00:17:41,728 --> 00:17:44,773 He didn't do anything that disrupted anything. 275 00:17:44,773 --> 00:17:48,277 His father would have whopped him. No! 276 00:17:49,278 --> 00:17:52,865 A win today would put Navy in a position to dominate the East, 277 00:17:52,865 --> 00:17:54,616 and that's something to cheer about. 278 00:17:54,616 --> 00:17:57,953 It was totally kind of a military type of environment 279 00:17:57,953 --> 00:17:59,162 on a football team. 280 00:17:59,162 --> 00:18:02,332 Touchdown! There'll be a hot time in Annapolis tonight. 281 00:18:02,332 --> 00:18:05,377 I thought that was the way it was supposed to be. 282 00:18:05,377 --> 00:18:07,546 I never really saw much different than that. 283 00:18:08,547 --> 00:18:11,133 {\an8}I think it had a big influence on my upbringing, on my life, 284 00:18:11,133 --> 00:18:13,260 {\an8}but also on my coaching career. 285 00:18:17,181 --> 00:18:20,809 We have one sign around here, right down here on the hall, 286 00:18:20,809 --> 00:18:25,856 on the way to this meeting room, from a guy named Sun Tzu. 287 00:18:25,856 --> 00:18:30,402 It's his quote. "Every battle is won before it's fought." Okay? 288 00:18:30,402 --> 00:18:32,988 Now look, I'm not saying we're in a war here, 289 00:18:32,988 --> 00:18:37,784 but I'm just telling you, understand how one stupid play, 290 00:18:37,784 --> 00:18:41,747 one stupid penalty, one mistake, 291 00:18:41,747 --> 00:18:44,249 ends it for all of us. 292 00:18:45,667 --> 00:18:47,586 If you're not mentally tough, 293 00:18:47,586 --> 00:18:50,214 {\an8}you can't play in that program. It'll destroy you. 294 00:18:51,048 --> 00:18:55,093 Just before you go to bed tonight, you can watch this too. 295 00:18:55,093 --> 00:18:57,304 This is pretty nauseating. 296 00:18:57,304 --> 00:19:01,099 When Belichick would come and do video for the quarterback room, 297 00:19:01,099 --> 00:19:03,310 it was all the bad quarterback plays. 298 00:19:03,310 --> 00:19:06,480 Not even close to being able to complete this pass. 299 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:08,649 You can see everybody kind of squirming in their seat. 300 00:19:08,649 --> 00:19:11,109 Like, "Oh, God, I hope he doesn't show that play." 301 00:19:12,486 --> 00:19:14,780 One time, I don't see a corner blitz, 302 00:19:14,780 --> 00:19:18,283 and I get absolutely annihilated in my back, "Boom!" 303 00:19:18,283 --> 00:19:20,118 Belichick comes in, and he says, 304 00:19:20,118 --> 00:19:24,665 "Cassel, you know, can we figure out the corner blitz? 305 00:19:24,665 --> 00:19:28,293 Because I don't want to have to write your mother a letter that says, 306 00:19:28,293 --> 00:19:32,005 'Dear Mrs. Cassel, we're sorry to inform you that your son is dead 307 00:19:32,005 --> 00:19:34,925 because he's a dumbass and didn't see the corner blitz.'" 308 00:19:34,925 --> 00:19:38,011 I'm gonna put more pressure on you individually, 309 00:19:38,011 --> 00:19:40,264 I'm gonna put more pressure on you collectively, 310 00:19:40,264 --> 00:19:44,810 because when we get into those situations, we gotta be able to handle them. 311 00:19:44,810 --> 00:19:46,645 {\an8}It's a hard life to live. 312 00:19:46,645 --> 00:19:49,064 {\an8}It's hard, man! 313 00:19:49,648 --> 00:19:52,734 How fucking stupid can you get? 314 00:19:53,569 --> 00:19:55,279 And sometimes... 315 00:19:56,196 --> 00:19:57,447 ...the young guys... 316 00:19:58,448 --> 00:19:59,825 ...just don't get it. 317 00:20:01,326 --> 00:20:05,038 I always tell players you got to be able to look outside the box 318 00:20:05,038 --> 00:20:07,374 and realize why he's doing it. 319 00:20:07,374 --> 00:20:11,420 Have you ever had a wet towel? A wet towel? 320 00:20:12,045 --> 00:20:16,758 And to wring it out, to get all the water out of it until it's dry? 321 00:20:16,758 --> 00:20:20,012 I'm the wet towel, okay. And Bill is the hands. 322 00:20:21,471 --> 00:20:25,851 I want you to wring the talent out of me any way you possibly can. Do it! 323 00:20:25,851 --> 00:20:28,145 Set it, set it, set it! 324 00:20:28,145 --> 00:20:32,274 Move your hands and ride 'em out. Ride the fucker out! 325 00:20:32,274 --> 00:20:35,277 I'm gonna get upset, I'm gonna get pissed off, 326 00:20:35,277 --> 00:20:37,196 but I still know it's the best for me. 327 00:20:37,196 --> 00:20:40,157 And that's how we're going to win, and consistently win. 328 00:20:41,533 --> 00:20:45,287 Now Cassel takes the shotgun snap. Steps, looks, fires. 329 00:20:45,287 --> 00:20:47,164 Randy Moss has got it! 330 00:20:47,164 --> 00:20:52,044 The New England Patriots, a big, big win for Bill Belichick. 331 00:20:52,878 --> 00:20:55,255 As tough as that environment is on all of us, 332 00:20:55,255 --> 00:20:57,966 and everybody will say the same thing, 333 00:20:57,966 --> 00:21:00,761 we were winning a lot when I was there. 334 00:21:01,803 --> 00:21:03,180 And we won without Tom Brady. 335 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,641 Cassel fires left. Caught. 336 00:21:05,641 --> 00:21:08,310 Thirty-five, 40, 45, 50, he's to midfield. 337 00:21:08,310 --> 00:21:12,940 He's gonna go all the way. And the Patriots are racking up! 338 00:21:12,940 --> 00:21:15,108 We were on a roll, man. 339 00:21:15,108 --> 00:21:17,319 We went on a four-game win streak at the end of the season 340 00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:19,738 to go to 11 and five. 341 00:21:19,738 --> 00:21:21,156 We still didn't make the playoffs, 342 00:21:21,156 --> 00:21:25,786 but we finished the season way beyond expectations. 343 00:21:25,786 --> 00:21:28,455 I sure wish that we were playing another week, 344 00:21:28,455 --> 00:21:30,916 but, you know, I couldn't be prouder of the team. 345 00:21:30,916 --> 00:21:33,919 They've worked hard, they've put up with me all year, 346 00:21:33,919 --> 00:21:36,380 they've fought through a lot of adversity. 347 00:21:36,380 --> 00:21:41,134 This year is a testament to just how good of a coach Bill Belichick is. 348 00:21:41,134 --> 00:21:43,679 Bill Belichick, to me, is so great 349 00:21:43,679 --> 00:21:47,516 that he has me wondering about the greatness of Tom Brady. 350 00:21:47,516 --> 00:21:52,104 You're 11 and 5 with Matt Cassel in his first-year quarterback in this team. 351 00:21:52,104 --> 00:21:54,648 I've got to the point where I've asked myself, 352 00:21:54,648 --> 00:21:58,026 "Who's not gonna look like that playing under Bill Belichick?" 353 00:22:01,488 --> 00:22:05,868 All of these things that we, you know, had heard people saying. 354 00:22:05,868 --> 00:22:08,412 For people like, Tom and I, 355 00:22:08,412 --> 00:22:11,832 {\an8}those aren't words of criticism to me. 356 00:22:11,832 --> 00:22:15,169 {\an8}I don't take offense to those. To me, they're actually motivational, 357 00:22:15,169 --> 00:22:17,129 {\an8}like, all right, no problem, like, 358 00:22:17,129 --> 00:22:18,547 we'll just go show you. 359 00:22:21,925 --> 00:22:24,469 Football isn't a game of entitlement. 360 00:22:24,469 --> 00:22:26,346 It's a game of earning it. 361 00:22:28,056 --> 00:22:33,020 With my rehab, I'd go to bed at night trying to wake up the next day 362 00:22:33,020 --> 00:22:35,314 to be a little bit better. 363 00:22:35,314 --> 00:22:38,317 It's line upon line and precept upon precept. 364 00:22:39,151 --> 00:22:41,945 A little bit here and a little bit there, and pretty soon, 365 00:22:41,945 --> 00:22:44,156 we're out in the field throwing the football, 366 00:22:44,156 --> 00:22:47,826 and I remember just the look on his face. We're like two kids in a candy store. 367 00:22:47,826 --> 00:22:51,413 Like, he's like, "Alex, man, I could do this till I'm 50, right?" 368 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:53,582 I can fire that m... 369 00:22:55,292 --> 00:22:59,379 Going into that year, I realized I need to be preventative 370 00:22:59,379 --> 00:23:02,549 and proactive about how I was taking care of myself. 371 00:23:02,549 --> 00:23:04,051 How do I not break? 372 00:23:05,469 --> 00:23:08,597 How do I not have the issues that would lead me to the operating room? 373 00:23:10,349 --> 00:23:13,143 You know, I was going to do everything possible to play 374 00:23:13,143 --> 00:23:15,020 however long I wanted to play. 375 00:23:16,104 --> 00:23:19,942 {\an8}When you see someone who's, like, doing what they love, you know, 376 00:23:19,942 --> 00:23:24,071 despite the risk of bodily harm, you're torn. 377 00:23:24,071 --> 00:23:27,574 But I know he was well taken care of. 378 00:23:27,574 --> 00:23:31,954 He had the work with Alex and the way he was taking care of his body. 379 00:23:32,871 --> 00:23:35,791 He had the love and support of Gisele... 380 00:23:36,625 --> 00:23:39,962 ...my parents and my sisters. 381 00:23:41,213 --> 00:23:44,216 He had everything that he needed to get back. 382 00:23:51,515 --> 00:23:55,102 Tom Brady in Patriots camp today, with the rest of the team. 383 00:23:55,102 --> 00:23:57,729 His first official practice since shredding his knee 384 00:23:57,729 --> 00:23:59,356 in last year's season opener. 385 00:23:59,356 --> 00:24:00,941 Okay! 386 00:24:00,941 --> 00:24:03,986 The Patriots trade quarterback Matt Cassel with the Chiefs. 387 00:24:03,986 --> 00:24:07,531 The deal signals New England must be comfortable with Tom Brady's rehab. 388 00:24:07,531 --> 00:24:10,659 The fact that they don't have Matt Cassel there 389 00:24:10,659 --> 00:24:14,371 sends a sign that they feel Tom Brady's gonna be ready for the start of the year. 390 00:24:14,371 --> 00:24:17,165 So, here's the question I have now. What if Brady's not ready? 391 00:24:17,875 --> 00:24:19,626 How confident are you that you can be 392 00:24:19,626 --> 00:24:21,753 the same player you were before the injury? 393 00:24:22,254 --> 00:24:24,339 We'll see. I mean, I... 394 00:24:24,339 --> 00:24:27,050 Like I said, talk is cheap and I could sit here and tell you guys, 395 00:24:27,050 --> 00:24:30,804 I'm gonna, you know, play till I'm 80, but that doesn't matter. 396 00:24:30,804 --> 00:24:32,931 I'm gonna go do the best I can do. 397 00:24:32,931 --> 00:24:36,351 I can't wait to get out and start playing games. 398 00:24:39,354 --> 00:24:42,733 One year ago, we were reminded that this game we all love 399 00:24:42,733 --> 00:24:45,027 can be fickle and can be cruel. 400 00:24:45,027 --> 00:24:48,947 The first quarter of the first game, one hit, Tom Brady, season over. 401 00:24:48,947 --> 00:24:51,450 With the reigning MVP recovering from knee surgery, 402 00:24:51,450 --> 00:24:54,369 what do we expect from New England this season? 403 00:24:54,369 --> 00:24:57,581 It's all about number 12. Two years ago, '07 season, 404 00:24:57,581 --> 00:24:59,958 the most prolific player offensively 405 00:24:59,958 --> 00:25:02,669 in the history of the National Football League. 406 00:25:02,669 --> 00:25:05,422 We are all watching to see if it's the same guy. 407 00:25:07,591 --> 00:25:10,302 Hey, this is the start of a long journey. Win on three. 408 00:25:10,302 --> 00:25:11,762 - One, two, three. - Win! 409 00:25:15,849 --> 00:25:17,392 A huge return. 410 00:25:17,392 --> 00:25:21,522 After 53 weeks, New England welcomes Brady back. 411 00:25:22,898 --> 00:25:24,775 Come on, get ready! 412 00:25:26,151 --> 00:25:27,694 Five out. 413 00:25:27,694 --> 00:25:30,280 Brady's got time. 414 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,950 But it goes over the hands, and incomplete. 415 00:25:33,825 --> 00:25:37,538 Tom got a bit skittish. I'm gonna watch that injured leg. 416 00:25:37,538 --> 00:25:40,666 {\an8}Anybody coming back from a serious injury like that, 417 00:25:40,666 --> 00:25:44,211 {\an8}I don't care who you are, many times there'll be a sharp decline. 418 00:25:45,337 --> 00:25:48,632 Brady goes the other way. Incomplete. 419 00:25:48,632 --> 00:25:51,635 It's the third time we've seen one of those little timing passes, 420 00:25:51,635 --> 00:25:54,680 that the Patriots live on, not click. 421 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,014 Brady! 422 00:25:58,559 --> 00:26:01,270 Tom, look... Settle down now, buddy. 423 00:26:01,270 --> 00:26:03,438 Step into the throw, okay? 424 00:26:03,438 --> 00:26:05,566 I'm getting them right in the hands. 425 00:26:05,566 --> 00:26:07,025 Throw to Kevin out here? 426 00:26:07,025 --> 00:26:08,777 I got drilled when I threw it. 427 00:26:08,777 --> 00:26:10,529 - Did you get hit on that? - Yeah! He was blitzing. 428 00:26:10,529 --> 00:26:14,032 I tried to lob it over him because the guy was standing right in his face! 429 00:26:14,032 --> 00:26:15,951 All right, the one to Maroney? 430 00:26:15,951 --> 00:26:18,495 - It was right in his hands! - It was over his head. 431 00:26:18,495 --> 00:26:20,998 - Oh, that one? - Yeah. Just... 432 00:26:20,998 --> 00:26:22,833 - You know, just step in to it, okay? - Yeah. 433 00:26:27,087 --> 00:26:30,048 Six for six on the drive, a lot of short stuff. 434 00:26:30,048 --> 00:26:32,426 Now loading up the middle for Moss. 435 00:26:32,426 --> 00:26:34,720 Look at the balance. Eyes downfield. 436 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,223 That left leg planted on the ground. That snap of the ball coming through. 437 00:26:38,223 --> 00:26:40,517 - That's Tom Brady. - That's pretty. 438 00:26:41,351 --> 00:26:43,145 Tom Brady's starting to heat up. 439 00:26:43,145 --> 00:26:46,190 You can almost sense his confidence coming out of the huddle. 440 00:26:46,190 --> 00:26:49,776 Down the middle shot, touchdown! Benjamin Watson. 441 00:26:52,738 --> 00:26:53,989 Touchdown! 442 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,453 What a debut for the 2009 season for Tom Brady. 443 00:27:01,330 --> 00:27:04,082 When I watched him in 2009, his first game, 444 00:27:04,082 --> 00:27:06,001 he had gotten it dialed in. 445 00:27:06,001 --> 00:27:10,339 And he was just throwing the ball so well, so, so well that day. 446 00:27:10,339 --> 00:27:14,510 And just the elation and the joy that comes from actually making it 447 00:27:14,510 --> 00:27:16,386 through four quarters of football. 448 00:27:16,386 --> 00:27:20,557 You know, I was so excited for him, 'cause I know how hard he worked to get there. 449 00:27:20,557 --> 00:27:24,394 How do you feel about a Monday night victory? 450 00:27:24,394 --> 00:27:27,314 Oh... yeah! 451 00:27:27,314 --> 00:27:30,442 In that game, Brady looked really good. 452 00:27:30,442 --> 00:27:31,902 {\an8}That was a sign he was back. 453 00:27:33,195 --> 00:27:35,280 So, if you're a Patriots fan, you're saying, 454 00:27:36,073 --> 00:27:39,201 "It's Brady and Belichick together again. 455 00:27:39,201 --> 00:27:41,537 This team will get back to the Super Bowl." 456 00:27:41,537 --> 00:27:45,040 Second and goal, the ball game hanging in the balance. 457 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,043 And... fumble. The ball came loose. 458 00:27:48,043 --> 00:27:49,920 Goddammit! 459 00:27:50,838 --> 00:27:53,841 Oh, my goodness! A fumble in the end zone. 460 00:27:53,841 --> 00:27:57,511 The Patriots blow a golden opportunity. 461 00:27:57,511 --> 00:28:00,973 But as we saw the rest of the team play, 462 00:28:00,973 --> 00:28:03,350 that excitement went away. 463 00:28:03,350 --> 00:28:06,436 Drive... Mishandled snap, but gets it away. 464 00:28:06,436 --> 00:28:09,857 Bess gets free. Five, end zone. Touchdown, Miami. 465 00:28:10,566 --> 00:28:14,069 And the road woes for Bill Belichick and New England continue. 466 00:28:14,820 --> 00:28:16,905 I watched the Patriots yesterday 467 00:28:16,905 --> 00:28:20,367 and I just think they've gotten rid of a lot of really smart veteran guys. 468 00:28:20,367 --> 00:28:24,538 Mike Vrabel, Rodney Harrison, Tedy Bruschi. 469 00:28:24,538 --> 00:28:29,251 You can't lose half a dozen guys that are that good and that smart. 470 00:28:29,251 --> 00:28:34,006 These veterans eventually retired or they were traded. 471 00:28:34,006 --> 00:28:36,800 You know, these guys, they'd been really important players, 472 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:41,305 because they got younger players to buy into Bill's style. 473 00:28:41,305 --> 00:28:44,349 We go out to practice, run the plays, sit in meetings, 474 00:28:44,349 --> 00:28:48,478 sometimes half asleep, not really paying attention. 475 00:28:48,478 --> 00:28:52,357 There's only one game next week for one of these two teams. 476 00:28:52,357 --> 00:28:54,401 So it's a death match. 477 00:28:54,401 --> 00:28:56,320 Without those veterans, 478 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,531 some new guys didn't like the way Belichick was coaching. 479 00:28:59,531 --> 00:29:02,868 Why should I listen to him when he cusses me out in team meetings, 480 00:29:02,868 --> 00:29:04,995 when he calls me out? Where's my payoff? 481 00:29:04,995 --> 00:29:06,872 Fires down the middle of the field... 482 00:29:06,872 --> 00:29:10,292 Wide open at the 50. He's gonna go all the way for a touchdown. 483 00:29:11,668 --> 00:29:13,545 We just have no mental toughness. 484 00:29:14,630 --> 00:29:18,050 I just can't get this team to play the way we need to play. 485 00:29:18,050 --> 00:29:19,801 I just... Can't do it. 486 00:29:20,677 --> 00:29:23,180 So frustrating. 487 00:29:23,180 --> 00:29:25,557 We had guys like Tom Brady, who got it. 488 00:29:26,350 --> 00:29:28,852 But Brady, you know, he can't do it all. 489 00:29:28,852 --> 00:29:31,021 First and ten, from their own 17. 490 00:29:31,021 --> 00:29:34,316 The hand-off comes to the tailback breaking across the 25, the 30, 491 00:29:34,316 --> 00:29:36,652 35, 40, 45, 50. 492 00:29:36,652 --> 00:29:38,570 He might take it all the way! 493 00:29:38,570 --> 00:29:42,032 Ray Rice goes 83 yards 494 00:29:42,032 --> 00:29:43,867 on the opening play of the game. 495 00:29:43,867 --> 00:29:46,745 We never fucking do the right fucking thing! 496 00:29:46,745 --> 00:29:49,206 We got beat from the first snap 497 00:29:49,206 --> 00:29:52,251 and we didn't do anything well in any phase of the game. 498 00:29:52,251 --> 00:29:53,961 Has time to throw. 499 00:29:53,961 --> 00:29:56,505 Now fires it long, deep right side, Sam Aiken. 500 00:29:56,505 --> 00:29:58,799 It is intercepted off the hands of Aiken. 501 00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:00,175 Damn it! 502 00:30:00,175 --> 00:30:02,719 That's the ball game, and that's the season. 503 00:30:02,719 --> 00:30:06,431 A disaster for the Patriots, and a 33 to 14 Baltimore rout. 504 00:30:07,349 --> 00:30:09,476 The Patriots didn't come to play. 505 00:30:09,476 --> 00:30:14,273 Are the Patriots as we've known them the last ten years done? 506 00:30:15,190 --> 00:30:19,403 The scribes, it was like announcing a funeral. 507 00:30:19,403 --> 00:30:22,781 "The dynasty's dead, buried, and in the past." 508 00:30:23,615 --> 00:30:25,075 It was horrendous. 509 00:30:27,619 --> 00:30:29,454 Do you feel like this team kind of got away 510 00:30:29,454 --> 00:30:31,164 from the way the Patriots used to be? 511 00:30:31,164 --> 00:30:33,792 This feels like it never would have happened. 512 00:30:33,792 --> 00:30:35,878 Well, there's some things that we didn't do well 513 00:30:35,878 --> 00:30:37,421 over the course of the year. 514 00:30:37,421 --> 00:30:41,216 And I think that things we didn't do well today, um... 515 00:30:41,216 --> 00:30:43,635 Part of it is mental toughness and moving forward, saying, 516 00:30:43,635 --> 00:30:45,804 "This year didn't turn out the way we wanted it to. 517 00:30:45,804 --> 00:30:47,931 Next year we'll make it a hell of a lot better." 518 00:30:49,933 --> 00:30:53,979 I mean, everybody understood we had to make some big changes. 519 00:30:54,688 --> 00:30:57,983 You know, we gotta have a good draft, 'cause we gotta get this thing going. 520 00:30:57,983 --> 00:31:01,445 {\an8}- We're on the clock with 639. - What do you got? 521 00:31:01,445 --> 00:31:05,199 We were looking for toughness and intensity in a football player. 522 00:31:05,199 --> 00:31:08,160 Four minutes remaining. Four minutes. 523 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:12,039 In the fourth round, we found this guy that we liked. 524 00:31:12,039 --> 00:31:14,082 You know, there were some off-the-field issues. 525 00:31:14,082 --> 00:31:16,502 - How much more time, Jimmy? - Three minutes. 526 00:31:16,502 --> 00:31:18,670 We thought, "There's a degree of risk here, 527 00:31:18,670 --> 00:31:20,506 but it makes sense to take it." 528 00:31:22,257 --> 00:31:25,093 But looking in hindsight, of course, we did not understand 529 00:31:25,093 --> 00:31:27,804 the full dimensions of what the problem was. 530 00:31:27,804 --> 00:31:29,014 - Okay. - You ready? 531 00:31:29,014 --> 00:31:30,098 Yeah, ready. 532 00:31:31,683 --> 00:31:34,478 {\an8}The Patriots chose Aaron Hernandez. 533 00:31:36,813 --> 00:31:40,275 NFL Pro Bowl tight end Aaron Hernandez 534 00:31:40,275 --> 00:31:42,653 was charged with murder today. 535 00:31:42,653 --> 00:31:44,821 The Patriots will certainly be asked 536 00:31:44,821 --> 00:31:48,909 what the team knew then, and did they look the other way?