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Belichick on end of Brady's Deflategate ban: 'He never left'
- Updated: September 4, 2015
Charles Krupa/APTom Brady has worked with the first-team offense throughout training camp despite not being sure until Thursday if he would be able to play for the Patriots when the season opens next week.
FOXBOROUGH – Patriots coach Bill Belichick won’t call it a comeback.
Asked for his thoughts regarding U.S. District Court Judge Richard Berman’s decision to lift quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension due to Deflategate, Belichick asserted nothing had changed in his mind.
“He never left,” Belichick said.
Brady departed Gillette Stadium Thursday night before the Patriots fell to the Giants, 12-9, in the preseason finale, but he will be under center for the start of New England’s fourth Super Bowl defense Thursday when Pittsburgh comes to town. He took snaps with the first-team offense throughout training camp and played in the first three preseason games.
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Offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels welcomed the certainty following months of speculation about Brady’s ban.
“I’m happy for Tom, and this week, hopefully, we’ll be able to focus on just football,” McDaniels said. “And he’ll be able to do that, but quite honestly, it hasn’t changed a whole lot of what we’ve done up to this point.”
Winslow Townson/APAs usual, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick says little when he met with the media on Friday.
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced Thursday that the league will appeal Berman’s decision. He also does not plan to attend the Patriots’ season opener when the team will raise its Super Bowl banner to celebrate beating Seattle in February.
Brady has yet to comment since the ban was lifted. He kept a low profile during the offseason and into training camp, allowing the legal process to play out as he made multiple court appearances in lower Manhattan.
“Tom’s a veteran player with a lot of experience, and he’s had to deal with different types of adversities and distractions in the past, whether it be injuries or personnel or something else,” McDaniels said. “I thought he went out and practiced and improved, tried to do his job, worked at his craft and put in a lot of hard work in different areas of playing the position of quarterback. He was prepared, studied hard for practice and games, the OTAs, and all those things we’ve done. That’s the best way to try to go about – control the things you can control – and I thought he did a good job of that.”
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