“It was really a great game,” Brady — speaking during a 35-minute interview on The Big Show on Sports Radio 850 WEEI Radio — said of New England’s 17-14 loss to the Giants in Super Bowl XLII. “I wish we would’ve played better at certain times, but [the Giants] made the plays and they deserved it. “And I have a lot of respect for that team because they work hard, and they have a lot of great leaders on that team. It’s kind of a blue-collar team. When you do lose a game, you at least want to lose to guys you respect. And I certainly respect those guys. I don’t respect everybody, but I do respect the Giants.”

It was a goal that went unfulfilled last year. “It was numbing,” he said of the Super Bowl loss. He particularly remembers plays he felt the Pats should have made. “Just before [halftime], on the strip sack, Randy [Moss] was behind the defense,” he recalled, “but we just weren’t able to find him in time. That should have been a touchdown.”  Instead, the Giants hit him as we was about to release the ball and forced a fumble. And in the game’s final seconds, he thought he’d connected on a bomb to Moss that was broken up by Giants cornerback Corey Webster. “Aw, man, when I let that go, I thought we had it,” he said. “I thought that was it.”

When asked who he didn’t respect, Brady said simply, “There’s four letters in their name.” When host Glenn Ordway asked, “Those green guys?” Brady laughed and responded, “Yeah, exactly.”

The Jets, of course, have four letters in their name and wear green.

Spygate was also a topic of conversation.

“It wasn’t the right thing to do,” Brady said of coach Bill Belichick’s practice of taping opposing teams’ coaching signals. “We paid the price [a $500,000 fine for Belichick, and a $250,000 fine for the organization, and the loss of a first-round draft pick]. We accepted it. And we moved on.

“And that’s what life’s about. In life, you’re accountable for your decisions, for all your actions, and once you take responsibility, and you accept the punishment, you move on.”

He hopes that everyone else will be moving on, as well.

“We dealt with it all season,” he said. “We dealt with it now, until today, throughout the offseason …We put it behind us the following week when we went out to play San Diego [in Week Two] after the Jet game [which is when the Pats were caught taping signals]. So I think it’s just … it was an incident that we accepted and we paid the price for, and a very heavy price at that, and we moved forward. So I hope everybody else does, too.”

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