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 Brady, who went an edgy revenge crusade in the wake of the
"Deflategate" scandal by leading the Pats to a 10-0 start to the
2015 NFL season, said Sunday's overtime loss to Denver left him
"pissed off" and motivated to get back to his winning ways.
"It was a very hard loss," Brady said on Monday during his regular
appearance on Boston's WEEI radio station a day after New England
fell from the ranks of the unbeaten.
"I don't think I've ever been so visibly pissed off after a loss.
And I think everyone felt the same way. Hopefully we can use it as
motivation going forward.
"How it all played out, I guess I was just pretty pissed off ...
just how the last 20 minutes of the game played out."
There was room for frustration and complaint after the Patriots
squandered a 21-7 lead as they muffed a punt, lost All-Pro tight end
Rob Gronkowski with a knee injury and were on the wrong side of a
number of borderline officiating calls.
"Like I said, there's things that we could have done better. And
it's certainly not to leave it up to a call here or a call there or
one player," Brady said.
Brady rattled off details of calls that went against the injury-hit
Pats during the 30-24 loss and some that could have been called on
Denver. After getting that off his chest, the man with four Super
Bowl rings put his business face back on.
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"There's things across the board that we need to do a better job of
and we can do a better job of. And that's what the focus is going to
be this week," said Brady, whose freshly motivated Patriots host a
Philadelphia Eagles (4-7) team on Sunday that have lost three
consecutive games.
(Reporting by Larry Fine in New York; Editing by Frank Pingue)
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