![]() ![]() The back-and-forth set the stage for Super Bowl XLII. That's when Tom Coughlin famously decided to play all his regulars despite Brady's playful pleas for him to sit Michael Strahan.Įli Manning was outstanding and the Giants made the undefeated Patriots sweat this one out right until the very end. ![]() The Giants clinched a playoff spot the previous week. Super Bowl LI: Patriots 34, Falcons 28 (2016) It was on pace to be Brady’s worst Super Bowl in the third quarter, when the Patriots trailed 28-3 and the quarterback’s most noteworthy. The Giants' offense led by Kerry Collins and Tiki Barber actually did the dominating in the first half, outgaining Brady and New England in yardage, 199-29.īut Seymour had two pass deflections that the Patriots turned into interceptions on a rainy and windy day, and Kevin Faulk's career-best performance of 87 rushing yards was clutch.īrady's stat line: 8-of-21 passing, 112 yards, sacked twice Patriots 38, Giants 35ĮAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. This was Brady's first game against the Giants, and it was a triumph dominated by Richard Seymour and the defense. Here's a look back at the history between Brady and the Giants: eight games, five decided in the closing seconds, including two Super Bowls: Patriots 17, Giants 6įOXBOROUGH, Mass. "He’s the best that ever walked and he’s a hell of a football player, and what he’s done over the last 20 years has been remarkable." "They’re going to make a Mount Rushmore of football players at some point, and the first face they chisel will be that guy’s face," Garrett said of Brady. Watch on YouTube Watch on Super Bowl 38: Patriots 32, Panthers 29 Brady's stats: 32-for-48 passing, 354 yards, three TDs, one INT, 100.5 rating (Super Bowl MVP) The script was slightly. Eighteen years later, Garrett will be on the opposite sideline inside Raymond James Stadium for "Monday Night Football" as the Giants' offensive coordinator with plenty of admiration for Brady earned through the years. Just how deep does it go? Jason Garrett was a reserve quarterback for the Giants when they played Brady for the first time. The feeling has obviously been mutual, and heading into Monday night's ninth - and perhaps final - meeting that pits Brady against the Giants, that respect has only grown. So to bring it up again, I do not like losing to those guys. "I’ve always joked with Eli but, yeah, and I think he likes that I bring it up all the time. "The team I would love to beat the most is the Giants, there’s no doubt about that," Brady said last month on his Sirius XM podcast with Jim Gray and Larry Fitzgerald. Make no mistake: The legendary quarterback - previously with the Patriots and now with the Buccaneers - certainly respects the history between the G.O.A.T. Tom Brady is not a fan of the New York Giants, and for good reason, considering what that franchise took from him twice on the biggest stage. That upset victory thwarted Brady's quest to add his name to. All Rights Reserved.Watch Video: David Tyree or Mario Manningham? Eli Manning shares his favorite NFL moments The Giants famously upset the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII 17-14 on a fourth-quarter game-winning drive engineered by Manning. And I made plays like that throughout my life, so like I say, now that I look back and look on that play I'm just wondering, could I have gathered myself, got up and caught that ball?" It was just more of a play where I think I could have made a better play of getting up and maybe just putting my body on the ball and just making the defenders run through me and the ball. It was a great play by Webster on the play, for him to be able to get up there and make a play on that ball. "I always talk about going up and catching the ball, but I don't know if, now that I sit back and reflect and think about this play, if I could've just stopped right there and just went up and tried to catch the ball with my body, or did I just try to catch it with my fingertips and just try to run it in right there," Moss lamented. While making that catch at full speed while covered by two defenders would have been some feat, Moss nevertheless regrets the fact that he let the ball come to him instead of stopping his momentum and going up to get the ball. ![]()
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