![]() ![]() “I’m nervous, I’m pacing,” Brady said of how he felt in that moment. “When the team was working out, I wanted to be working out too.” “I watched the first game, I was in the gym working out,” he remembered. We haven’t had a family holiday together since he was at Michigan.” Watching Jimmy Garoppolo start the season at quarterbackīrady said he was working out while watching backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and the Patriots play the Cardinals in the opening game of the 2016 season. “It actually worked out awesome for them,” said Maureen. That was a really dark time.”īut after the brutal period of “Deflategate,” the suspension that finally resulted from it was a positive moment. She held me up when I was weak and angry and sad and depressed. ![]() “A very small gesture like that allowed me to recognize the things that I need to do in our relationship to make sure that she feels supported too,” said Brady, “because she’d supported me for the previous year and a half. “That was really good for our relationship,” he said of the trip with Gisele Bündchen. “I didn’t even know what a September was like without football.īrady said that he decided to go on vacation to Costa Rica to be with his wife. “It was the first September that I’d had off since my eighth-grade year,” Brady recalled. Having to serve a four-game suspension at the outset of the 2016 season provided a stark change of pace for Brady. “We’re going to fix this.” Handling the 2016 suspension “I’m saying, ‘Mom, come on, this is what we’ve got to do, we’ve got to send you to this person, or this person,'” Brady continued. “And then I automatically - maybe it’s a little bit of a toughening up that I’ve had, but maybe I’m not the most empathetic or sympathetic - I’m trying to solve it. “I tried to remain poised and say, ‘Don’t worry, mom, we’re going to get through it,'” said Brady. She immediately began to receive treatment, which eventually meant a difficult period of chemotherapy.īrady offered an introspective recollection from that time. Galynn Brady was diagnosed with breast cancer and myeloma in 2016. We had a lot going on with my mom and Tommy.” ![]() When asked what came to mind about the year, Maureen became emotional. While the 2016 season was ultimately a happy memory for Patriots fans, it was a difficult time for the Brady family. I decided to put that behind me and then move on to the next year.” Brady’s response to his mother having cancer I thought we gave it a great fight but in the end just dealing with the results of what the New York circuit judge decided. “It’s hard to beat 31 billionaires in court. “I realized I wasn’t going to win,” Brady said of the protracted court procedure. I felt I had given them what they needed to make the right decision, but I feel like they had their mind made up.” I said what I had to say multiple times, in front of a lot of different people, in court, in public. “I don’t need to defend myself,” he said. Ultimately, Brady believed that it wasn’t productive to continuously defend his actions. “A lot of people were waiting for that moment to kind of dig in,” said Nancy. what it became were two totally different things,” he explained.īrady’s siblings shared that view, noting that accusations drifted over time as the initial reports of discrepancies in the pressure of footballs were seemingly disproven by the ideal gas law. In Brady’s view, the entire subplot was “a lot about who had power and authority.” Here are a few takeaways from Episode 7, titled, “Surrender”: The Brady family view of “Deflategate”Īfter receiving coverage in the previous episode, the “Deflategate” controversy was once again back in the documentary as Brady’s 2016 four-game suspension was discussed. ![]()
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