It wasn’t Gisele who messed up his ring finger (Brady’s psyche is another story) but rather a play against the New Orleans Saints in Week 2. The Tampa Bay quarterback threw a pass and hit a Saints defender’s helmet on the follow-through during the win that moved them to 2-0.
In the week leading up to the Buccaneers’ loss versus the Packers, Brady was showing visible signs of distress at practice. Per the Tampa Bay Times, Brady ‘would grip the football, throw a pass and then look down at his hand just before giving it a shake.’
During his weekly appearance on the ‘Let’s Go!’ podcast, Brady shared the severity of the injury while also downplaying its impact on the 45-year-old against Green Bay:
Hand injuries have been Tom Brady’s Achilles heel
Luckily, Tom Brady has avoided an actual Achilles heel injury, but his hand injuries throughout the last decade have been his worst health struggles since his ACL tear back in 2008 against the Chiefs.
In 2018, in the week leading up to the AFC Championship against the Blake Bortles-led Jacksonville Jaguars, Brady suffered a massive gash in his hand that required 12 stitches. Even last season, he hit his hand on a player’s helmet on a follow-through.
That Tom Brady has yet to let his moneymaking golden arm’s extremity issues affect him illustrates his greatness – but at some point, Father Time has to get one over on TB12.
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