Tom Brady Lastly Admits To One Of His Huge Controversies

Tom Brady simply shed some gentle on one in every of his first controversies ― and it gained’t make Raiders followers comfortable.

The quarterback nice admitted Thursday that the well-known “tuck rule” fumble in his first playoff sport main the New England Patriots in 2002 “may need been a fumble” — because it was dominated on the sphere.

However immediate replay officers overturned the decision and declared that Brady was within the ahead movement of passing, even when the movement was from attempting to tuck the ball away. The ruling made the dropped ball an incomplete cross, which allowed the Patriots to maintain possession.

The decision could have altered soccer historical past. The Raiders would have had the ball on their option to a probable victory with a 13-10 lead and fewer than two minutes left. However the Patriots’ Adam Vinatieri kicked a subject objective to tie the sport in regulation, then one other one in extra time for the win. The Patriots finally reached the Tremendous Bowl and gained the primary of Brady’s seven titles.

Charles Woodson, the Raider who compelled Brady to lose possession of the ball that was recovered by the Raiders’ Greg Biekert, couldn’t ignore the near-confession.

“Actually,” Woodson wrote for a Twitter clip by which he wore a glance of consternation.

Brady tried a weaselly walk-back.

Right here’s the play and commentary by Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe of “Undisputed”: