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 Brady was injured during the Patriots' regular season finale on
Sunday when Miami's Ndamukong Suh rolled into his legs and he was
limping after the game but the four-time Super Bowl champion insists
his ankle has made progress.
"Feeling better. Better than I was a couple days ago," Brady, 38,
said during a news conference.
"Mentally, I'm ready to go. Physically, you always want to feel your
best and I think you've just got to work as hard as you can at doing
the right things to get to that point, so that's where I feel like
I'm at."
The Patriots, who lost a second consecutive game to end the regular
season, will host a divisional-round playoff game on Jan. 16 against
either the Cincinnati Bengals, Houston Texans or Kansas City Chiefs.
Brady, whose team clinched a first-round playoff bye, said his
Patriots are taking full advantage of some added time off having not
had a bye week in their schedule since early October.
"A lot of guys have been fighting through different kinds of bumps
and bruises over the course of the season, so you try and take
advantage of that as best you can to feel good because we're going
to need everybody a week from Saturday to be at their very best,"
said Brady.
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"It's just a lot of time obviously preparing. There are a lot of
different scenarios so you try to do your best mentally to get ready
and physically you've just got to put as much effort in as you can
to make yourself feel better."
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Mark
Lamport-Stokes)
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