The Sports Xchange

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The last time New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady took the field with any sense of normalcy was before the AFC Championship game, when the cloud of Deflategate first formed.

Brady, who leads the NFL in passer rating and has 11 touchdowns without an interception in four games this season, gets another shot at the Colts this Sunday night in Indy.

Brady admitted the offseason was not enjoyable thanks to the constant character questions and allegations of intentionally deflating footballs for a competitive advantage. Beating the NFL gave him some satisfaction, and kept him from a four-game suspension, at least temporarily.

Now he gets another look at the Colts.

In his weekly Monday morning interview with WEEI radio in Boston, the quarterback was asked about getting ready for the rival and the game with so much on- and off-field history.

Does he have extra motivation against the Deflategate instigators?

“The way to do that is to go score as many points as possible,” Brady began. “And that takes a lot of execution, that takes a lot of communication with your teammates in practice. That’s what I’m focused on. That’s what I’m focused on every week. I think it would be a disservice to Mr. Kraft and Jonathan and our organization if I didn’t do that every week. I think I’ve tried to be very consistent over the course of my career on my attention to detail, my levelheadedness, my poise. I think that’s been a real positive for me. Now that we’re playing the Colts, for example, it’s not like, ‘All right, well, let’s go change now.’ Look, we’ve got a good thing going for a long time. And it has to do with all things that are football-related. And things that are about kind of our poise and our discipline, our execution. That’s what wins football games. Not what you say or what your talk is or the predictions you make. Like I said, those things don’t really matter in the end.”