Tom Brady trying to play the "no respect" card. Seriously.

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Originally Posted by Yehoodi

Agreed, Reid & Co. will not take the Pats lightly and know what the Pats are as a team.

For me, Brady's comments were more directed towards the nah sayers around the nation, both national and local. And there have been many.

A same part of me thinks, the Pats on some level have kind of been playing possum, playing to pace themselves and be healthy in the playoffs.

They tried this when they were more banged up in 2015, exchanging health for reduce play and lost to Miami in the last game of the season.

I may be wrong, but they might have paced themselves only to crank it up in the playoffs.

They won the games the needed to, but jeez - they lost 5 games on the road and lost to 5 teams that didn't make the playoffs.