LOL, Brady was seeing ghost pressure in the SB against the Giants because they got in his head.
“They(the Giants) can force the quarterback into some bad decisions and some bad throws,” Brady said. “We had too many of those the last time we played them.”
It happened three seconds after the snap, on the first play of the third quarter in the
Giants' game against the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Mass., 12 weeks ago Sunday.
Tom Brady flinched. For no apparent reason.
Linval Joseph was the closest to Brady — 2 yards away and leaping into the air — but he was stoned by New England center Dan Connolly.
Jason Pierre-Paul, who had earlier recorded his fifth sack in four games, was shielded from Brady by both tackle Sebastian Vollmer and guard Brian Waters. Chris Canty was occupied by three blockers. Osi Umenyiora had issues when he tried to loop around those four. And Mathias Kiwanuka, who had caused Brady to yell out, “Ninety-four’s the ‘Mike,’ ” when he leaned over the center, had long since dropped into coverage. Maybe Brady could’ve pump-faked or patted the ball one more time. Those would’ve been natural reactions.
But when Brady scrunched his shoulders and ducked his head like a friend had just popped out from behind a door to prank scare him, the Giants’ mysterious pass-rusher had generated another hurry.
But in the moment when Brady’s arms and torso muscles contracted, the Giants knew they were in his head — just like they’d been four years prior in their Super Bowl XLII upset of the then-perfect Patriots.
Last week,
Pierre-Paul mentioned publicly Brady "reacted to pressure that wasn't there," and used that as evidence he's "not God."