Brady on Moss trade: 'Deal with it, move on'
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady praised former teammate Randy Moss in his first public comments about the trade.
Speaking to Scott Zolak for Patriots All-Access Thursday, Brady acknowledged it's a big loss, but he wasn't shocked.
"Well, you don't sit here and lose a guy like that and say 'That's the greatest thing in the world.'
"At the same time, coach Belichick feels that's what he thinks he needs to do for the team. So we as players, we deal with it and we move on."
"I think I've been around long enough to realize that nothing really surprises me and the best thing for me to do is to be the best quarterback I can be for the team and I plan on being that."
"Randy's been a great player here," Brady noted.
"Randy really knows how I feel about him. I love him as a guy, as a person, as a player, (he) did a lot of great things for this team."
"Now he's playing for another team that we're going to play in three weeks," he said, alluding to Moss's return to Gillette Stadium Oct. 31 with the Vikings.
The Patriots are off this weekend and will play their first game in two weeks against the Ravens, who knocked them out of the playoffs last season.
"We'll be ready to play when we play Baltimore with the guys we've got."
Zolak asked Brady if his job just got tougher with the loss of Moss.
"You know, I think playing quarterback it's, uh, you've got to find the guy that's open and get the ball to that guy and I think that whatever we design as an offense, the guys who are in the offense are going to be capable of doing those things."
"The guys that are out there, I'll have plenty of confidence in. I know that for certain."
Brady said the replacements for Moss have different skill sets "so we'll do different things that they're good at, that maybe Randy wasn't very good at."
Patriots All-Access airs Fridays at 7 p.m. on WBZ-TV.
