For weeks, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick refused to publicly discuss their relationship or the issues that seemingly drove the all-time-great quarterback away from the Patriots and into the arms of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Even after the clock hit zeroes Sunday night, the embrace the two shared on the field after the Bucs outlasted the Patriots 19-17 was a muted, almost perfunctory one.
That’s because they probably knew the real conversation was meant for when the cameras were off.
Brady spoke to NBC Sports senior NFL writer Peter King early on Monday morning and shed a little more light on his clandestine postgame meeting with his former coach, which is recounted in King’s Football Morning in America column.