New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady wasn't fazed by Denver Broncos defensive tackle Terrance "Pot Roast" Knighton's Super Bowl guarantee.
With both teams owning NFL-best 11-3 records and clinching their divisions on Sunday, Brady said he didn't care much about Knighton's guarantee that his team will lift the Lombardi Trophy Feb. 1 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona.
"It doesn't matter what you say. It matters what you do," Brady said Monday during his weekly radio interview on Westwood One, according to ESPN. "Pot Roast is a big man, so I would never say anything that would get him mad at me, but I will just say there is a lot of football left to be played. [The Broncos will] have their chance and we'll have our chance, and we will do our talking on the field."
Knighton claimed that his team will be champions when all is said and done following the team clinching the AFC West for the third straight season on Sunday.
"It doesn't matter what happens. At the end of the year, we're hoisting that trophy. I don't care if New England doesn't lose again," Knighton told the Denver Post. "I don't care where we have to play. I don't care who our opponent is. We're not going to be satisfied until we hoist that trophy. So if we've got to go to New England [in the playoffs] and win somewhere we're not used to winning, we're going to make it happen. Write that. And put a big period after that one."
Brady, whose team topped the Broncos 43-21 in Week 9 action on Nov. 2, continued to say that he'll do his talking through his performance on the field.
"My dad always told me, 'Well done is better than well said,'" the quarterback said. "In the meantime, we have a lot of football left to play, and it starts this Sunday at the Jets, and nothing is really clinched at this point. There's still two very important games remaining on our schedule, and that's what my focus is on."
While the two teams have the same record, New England owns the No. 1 seed in the playoffs heading into Week 16 while Denver is No. 2 thanks to their loss in Foxboro last month -- which was the fifth straight time the Broncos have lost at Gillette Stadium.
Knighton didn't shy away from his comments when he was approached again on Monday.
"Some people will call it a guarantee, some people will call it whatever they want, you know, anything less than a Super Bowl victory is a disappointing season," Knighton said. "I stand by what I said."
The Broncos, of course, made it to Super Bowl XLVIII last year and were routed by the Seahawks to the tune of a 43-8 final score.
The Patriots have won the AFC East in five straight seasons, but they haven't appeared in the Super Bowl since losing to the New York Giants in 2011 and haven't won it all since 2004.
New England could lock up the top seed for the playoffs with a victory over the New York Jets (3-11) on Sunday combined with a Denver loss to the Cincinnati Bengals (9-4-1) on Monday.
For more coverage, follow us on Twitter @SportsWN and Like Us on Facebook
© Copyright 2024 Sports World News, All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.