Tom Brady responds to Tony Romo predicting Jaguars-Packers Super Bowl
It’s always funny when professional athletes say they don’t pay attention to what the “experts” say about them or their teams.
But when Tony Romo speaks, apparently people listen.
Tom Brady has always done a great job of blocking out the noise, which is to be expected when you’re arguably the greatest quarterback of all-time and married to a supermodel.
If you believe what was written by ESPN’s Seth Wickersham last season, the Patriots’ dynasty is crumbling, with a not-so-pretty end in sight.
Oh, and as the turmoil was supposedly at its highest, Brady took New England to another Super Bowl, and came within a couple of plays of winning his sixth championship.
Brady didn’t say much about the noise around him, but hey, this guy was a sixth-round draft pick. He knows how to play with a chip on his shoulder.
So you can understand why Brady would have a reaction when Romo, now a CBS analyst, made his Super Bowl prediction for the coming season: Green Bay and Jacksonville.
Tony Romo picked the team that Tom Brady beat in the Championship game last year without Edelman and mostly without Gronk to go to the Superbowl in 2018 instead of the Patriots and Tom Brady now has a chip on his shoulder to prove @tonyromo wrong. pic.twitter.com/WG3QETtllR
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) July 13, 2018
Brady didn’t exactly throw down a gauntlet, but he did respond, “We will see Tony, we will see!”
In Romo’s defense, while New England did knock off Jacksonville in the AFC Championship game, it wasn’t what you’d call decisive by any stretch of the imagination.
The Patriots trailed Jacksonville 20-10 midway through the fourth quarter before Brady connected on two touchdown passes to Danny Amendola for a dramatic come-from-behind victory.
Since then, New England has had a very un-Patriot-like offseason.
Amendola — the team’s third-leading receiver — and leading rusher Dion Lewis both departed via free agency.
The Patriots also traded away Brandin Cooks, who was the second-leading receiver.
Instead of rising star Jimmy Garappolo backing up the 40-year-old Brady, it’s journeyman Brian Hoyer, as Jimmy G was traded in the middle of the season to San Francisco.
Having said that, the Patriots again head into the season facing little serious competition in the AFC East, and Pittsburgh was dominated by Jacksonville twice last year — once in the regular season and again in the playoffs, with both losses coming in Pittsburgh.
So at the very least, it could be the Patriots and Jaguars once again battling it out for a trip to the Super Bowl.
If that does happen, you can be sure Brady will remember Romo’s prediction.
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