Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and New England Patriots special teams ace Matthew Slater have an enormous amount of respect for each other, and that was very clear Sunday night at Gillette Stadium.
Slater and Brady were teammates for 12 seasons from 2008 through 2019, and they won three Super Bowl titles together during that span.
Brady and the Bucs earned a hard-fought 19-17 victory in the veteran quarterback's much-anticipated return to Foxboro on Sunday night.
The two of them had a long embrace on the field after the game, and according to ESPN's Mike Reiss, "Before he left Gillette Stadium early Monday morning, Matthew Slater went to the Buccaneers’ buses to find Tom Brady.