Patriots: Tom Brady snubs Nick Foles again after loss in Chicago

Tom Brady sprinted off the field after losing to Nick Foles on Thursday, just like after the Patriots-Eagles Super Bowl.

As the Bucs likely hoped when they imported him for the tail end of his storied career, Touchdown Tom Brady recreated one of his most iconic recent Patriots moments on Thursday night in Chicago.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t one of the positive ones.

After Brady threw for an absurd 505 yards in Super Bowl LII against Foles’ Eagles, he was understandably disgusted in the postgame that he hadn’t done enough to overcome Matt Patricia’s defensive negligence. As if the loss wasn’t bad enough for his resume, cameras caught him leaving the field of play without shaking his opposing QB’s hand, which led to the type of offseason media cycle that’s reserved for legends of TB12’s status.

Somehow, we ended up in this situation again on Thursday night in Chicago, with Foles’ Bears coming out on top of Brady’s Bucs in a tight game that featured a good amount of quarterback negligence and a forgotten down by Brady on the final drive. It was ugly. It was gutty. And in the end, though the game looked very different, it ended the same way: Brady sprinting off and leaving Foles in the lurch.

Of all of Tom Brady’s warts, this one is among the most intensely annoying.

How many gutting Patriots losses have ended with Bill Belichick begrudgingly shaking the opposing coach’s hand for under 1.00 seconds before sprinting off the field again? Even Rex Ryan used to receive the coldest of handshakes before both sides disappeared into the night.

We’re not sure what’s motivating Brady here (Is it something about Foles?), but this wasn’t a good look on the grandest stage in the game, and it’s definitely not one on a cold Chicago night in his 21-year career.

Isn’t it nice to wake up the morning after Tom Brady has lit the football world on fire by blanking on the number of downs he had left and snubbing Nick Foles, and know that this is no longer our problem?

Now we can cringe along with the rest of America.

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