Bill Belichick Releases Statement On Tom Brady’s Historic Night

Tom Brady had his 500th touchdown pass in the game with the Indianapolis Colts, and had great contribution to the team’s 38-24 win. It was a night for the record books of the NFL, and head coach Bill Belichick took a moment to praise the quarterback.

Brady is the third quarterback in the league to throw 500 touchdowns in his professional career, and Josh Hordon is the 71st different receiver to catch a pass from the quarterback. Bill Belichick is well aware of Brady’s potential. I mean, the have been on the same team for 19 seasons.

“Yeah, it’s tremendous. That’s a lot of touchdown passes to a lot of different guys, too. There’s no quarterback I’d rather have than Tom Brady. He does a great job week-in and week-out, year-in and year-out, all of the situations. He does a great job,” Belichick said of Brady’s 500th touchdown pass.

The milestone score happened on a broken play. “Yeah, well, it was an extended play. It wasn’t really the way we drew it up, but it ended up being an extended play with two great players making a great play. Josh has worked hard. Tom has spent extra time working with him and really all of the receivers, backs and tight ends, as well. It’s good to see that hard work pay off,” Belichick added.

The head coach went on talking about Brady and the current Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri. “Yeah, a lot. There’s a lot of people who have meant a lot to this organization, but certainly nobody more than Tom Brady. Adam – the time he was here was fabulous. He made some of the biggest kicks in the history of the game. Certainly one of the toughest, but he made a lot of them,” Belichick said of the two players.

“We wouldn’t’ have won a lot of the games that we won without great players like that or some of the other guys that have been out here the last couple of weeks. [Matt] Light, [Willie] McGinest, Ty Law, so forth. We’ve had a lot of the great players back here the last couple of weeks so it’s great to see that. But yeah, Vinatieri, I can’t imagine a kicker more deserving of whatever the highest accolade you could get than him and the same is true for Tom. His records are incredible.”