Ex-Patriots QB Reveals Tom Brady’s NSFW Talk During 2007 Season Finale

The regular season finale of the 2007 NFL season put the New England Patriots and New York Giants on the same field. It wasn’t an important game for both teams. The Patriots had already clinched the AFC’s top seed, and they were just trying to finish the season without a loss. The Giants locked into the NFC’s No. 5 seed. It was a tough game at Giants Stadium, and both teams relied on their starters. The Patriots went against their original plan. They don’t usually do that.

Former Patriots quarterback Matt Cassel talked on NBC Sports Boston’s Patriots Talk Podcast with Tom Curran. He thought he’d get a significant portion, but quarterback Tom Brady had something else on his mind.

“We get into the game and it starts going back-and-forth early, and all of a sudden Brady comes over to the sideline, I think at one point in the first quarter, and is like, ‘I’m not coming out of this (expletive) game,’ ” Cassel recalled. ” … And everybody to a man, though, from Randy (Moss) to (Wes) Welker to everybody that was on that offensive unit, was like, ‘Hell no, I’m not coming out of this game.’

“It was just one of the most incredible games to watch because the intensity and the atmosphere was that of a playoff game, for sure. These teams weren’t playing to up their seed, they weren’t playing to get into the playoffs, they weren’t playing for anything, other than the fact that they both were playing with pride for history and also for not to let history happen. It was one of the coolest games I’ve ever been a part of and it was a remarkable game, and I just remember when Brady took the knee at the end of the game and the electricity that went off for our team and just the excitement of it all — going 16-0 and feeling like we accomplished something pretty amazing, because 16-0 in the regular season. But it’s interesting, because then we went right back and it was back to work because we knew that the job wasn’t finished.”