Tom Brady refuses to pick sides as Patriots return to Super Bowl: 'Don’t have a dog in the fight'

The New England Patriots find themselves backmost successful the Super Bowl for the archetypal clip since the Tom Brady Era successful Foxborough, and it’s been rather the turnaround for the franchise that won lone 4 games successful back-to-back seasons heading into 2025.

But, portion Brady spent 20 seasons starring the Patriots astatine quarterback, helium is present a number proprietor of the Las Vegas Raiders, portion besides serving arsenic a FOX Sports announcer during the season.

So, is Brady inactive rooting for his aged squad?

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Tom Brady looks connected anterior to the crippled betwixt the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Giants astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected Oct. 26, 2025 successful Philadelphia. (Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

"I don’t person a canine successful the combat successful this one," Brady said connected his "Let’s Go" podcast, which came retired connected Monday night. "May the champion squad win."

The neutral reply from Brady determination makes sense, but helium does person affirmative words for his erstwhile teammate, Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel, and what the squad was capable to bash successful his archetypal twelvemonth backmost successful Foxborough.

"And successful presumption of the Patriots, this is simply a caller section successful New England, and I’m gladsome everyone’s embraced the Mike Vrabel regime. All the astonishing players that person worked truthful hard to get their nine to this position. We did it for 20 years. There was a small spot of a hiatus successful there, but the Patriots are back, and it’s a precise breathtaking clip for everyone successful New England."

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While Brady’s nonrecreational loyalties prevarication elsewhere, it’s hard to ideate idiosyncratic with a statue extracurricular Gillette Stadium not intrigued to spot if they tin get that archetypal Super Bowl ringing without him connected the sideline. He besides made definite to notation that those who judge helium doesn’t privation the Patriots to triumph a ringing without him were "idiotic" to deliberation specified a thing.

Meanwhile, immoderate of Brady’s erstwhile teammates with the Patriots weren’t bashful astir their loyalty heading into Super Bowl LX betwixt the Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, including Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman.

Tom Brady, Former New England Patriots quarterback, stands halfway signifier nether looming Super Bowl banners arsenic helium receives a lasting ovation astatine the extremity of his Patriots Hall of Fame induction ceremony.  (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Brady, though, wants to basal for bully idiosyncratic performances.

"You basal for people, and you privation them to person large performances," helium said. "Even arsenic a broadcaster, erstwhile you’re up determination benignant [of] representing what radical are watching — and I’m not moving this peculiar crippled — I conscionable privation to spot bully football. I privation to spot bully plays, bully throws, bully strategy, bully decisions, and that’s the joyousness successful the crippled for me."

Brady volition beryllium with the FOX Sports unit successful Santa Clara for FOX’s pregame sum of Super Bowl LX, though the crippled volition beryllium aired connected NBC.

While the satellite watches what happens astatine Levi’s Stadium this Sunday, Brady is possibly looking other intimately astatine the Seahawks’ violative crippled program fixed their caput manager situation.

Former New England Patriots backmost Tom Brady waves to the assemblage astatine the decision of the Patriots Hall of Fame induction ceremonies for Brady astatine Gillette Stadium, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, successful Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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It was reported that Seahawks violative coordinator Klint Kubiak volition beryllium taking the Raiders’ vacant caput coacing position, but couldn’t marque it authoritative until aft the game. Kubiak has been 1 of the brightest violative minds successful the game, reuniting with backmost Sam Darnold aft their clip unneurotic with the San Francisco 49ers, portion processing Jaxon Smith-Njigba into the league’s starring receiver successful 2025.

The Raiders person an breathtaking offseason up arsenic well, particularly with the No. 1 wide prime successful the 2026 NFL Draft, which is expected to beryllium utilized connected Indiana backmost Fernando Mendoza.

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