Brady and Mathieu trash talk during the super bowl, a breakdown
What Happened
In Super Bowl LV on February 7, 2021, Tom Brady's Buccaneers beat the Chiefs to give the 43-year-old his seventh ring. Jomboy's breakdown focuses on the running feud between Brady and 28-year-old Kansas City safety Tyrann Mathieu, who jaws through nearly every snap. Mathieu picks off a tipped Brady pass, complains his way into a couple of flags, and Brady throws touchdowns to Gronkowski and Antonio Brown while screaming directly in Mathieu's face afterward. The video reads the back-and-forth body language, the missed and blown calls, and the postgame text Brady reportedly sent Mathieu to smooth things over.
Why This Matters
Trash talk between a 43-year-old and a 28-year-old is fun, but the officiating angle is the real subplot. Mathieu drew two costly flags in the second quarter while arguing, and the Chiefs were penalized 11 times in this game, a number that helped bury them in a 31-9 loss. Jomboy points out that Mathieu was right about one bad call and wrong about the Gronkowski touchdown, where the receiver didn't push off. That nuance matters because the broadcast painted Mathieu as the villain, when the tape shows a defender losing his composure under a relentless Brady. The postgame text, in which Brady apologized and called Mathieu a great leader, became its own story. Brady winning his last ring in Tampa makes the whole exchange feel like a closing chapter rather than just a spat.
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Key Moments
Who / What Is Involved
Players: Tom Brady, Tyrann Mathieu. Teams: Chiefs.
Full Transcript
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other Tom Brady's old he's 43 years old
he's getting in spats with 28 year old
matthew here there he is
waving the finger no no no no no no no
catch
matthew does a lot during plays after
plays before plays he talks a lot he has
a lot of fun
brady kind of likes it see that smile he
digs it
now we got a third and four and brady's
gonna have a pass tipped once
tip twice matthew's gonna catch it for
the interception
he gets tackled he doesn't care his
helmet falls off he likes it his hair
looks great
comes up celebrating brady says holding
first down no need to even celebrate
he's like what
he's like yeah yeah he's like what's
happening all upset
can't figure it out and he's right on
this one there's a bad call
he tells the ref the next play you gotta
stop you gotta stop
let us play i'm guessing he said
something like that could be completely
wrong then brady goes incomplete on
fourth down
and matthew runs up to him and flexes
and he's like wait where is he
where's where's the old man i'm trying
to talk [ __ ] to later on first
and ten brady's gonna throw down field
to gronk for the touchdown and matthew's
like what off
he pushed he pushed off he pushed off
he's wrong on this one gronk didn't push
off
he kind of just ran the other way and
the dude got fooled now at some point
they start talking [ __ ] br
matthew holds up four fingers brady's
yelling at him
i don't exactly know what he's saying
but it looks like i'm going your way
hopefully we get the mics coming up but
brady points him at
says it's me and you i'm going at you
and then later on
in the very next drive he goes right at
him he gets pi called here
matthew's like what no offensive push
push push he just thinks that every play
is offensive past interfering for for
pushing off
but big old smile i mean looks great
teeth look fantastic so he's probably
happy about that
then brady goes right at him again
to brown gets the touchdown nice move by
brown left foot left foot bam
a little tilt to whirl wide open
touchdown to
end the half and brady runs right up to
him
he doesn't celebrate with his teammate
brady runs right up to matthew and
starts talking right in his face and
just letting him know i told you i was
coming after you
so matthew responds he puts like one
finger in front of his face
i don't really know what he's saying
here and then brady
sees that and he says well you can't
talk [ __ ] back to me dude i just scored
touchdown so he has to have the last
word
so now he tracks him down gets in his
face again
talks some more [ __ ] matthew's upset
he's like that's un unfair he gets
flagged starts yelling and screaming on
his bench
that's all i do i'm not doing anything
as i think what he said
no i think he's talking about coverage
here anything he says like he gets past
me what's gonna happen
meanwhile brady just sitting on the
bench like an animal like an angry
person
going crazy but now brady did text him
after this apparently
and said like hey sorry you're a great
leader this was just heat of the moment
so that's nice of brady but he also won
very easy to be nice in victory
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