{"id":2253,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2253","headline":"Felger says Brady went too soft on the Patriots","dek":"Brady called his first Patriots broadcast as New England fell 45-27 to the Packers, and Boston radio host Mike Felger says he was too afraid to criticize his old team.","body":"Tom Brady worked his first New England Patriots game for Fox Sports last weekend, a broadcast the network hyped all week, timed near the 10th anniversary of the Patriots' Super Bowl LI comeback over the Falcons. The game itself was no comeback story: New England lost 45-27 to the Green Bay Packers, with Drake Maye throwing three interceptions and Rhamondre Stevenson adding a fumble, four turnovers total from a team whose Hall of Fame former quarterback built his legacy on protecting the ball.\n\nBrady's call mostly went unnoticed nationally, but not in Boston. The Sports Hub's Mike Felger ripped Brady for being \"afraid\" to criticize the Patriots during the broadcast, a charge that echoes earlier skepticism about how Brady would handle covering his old team after he said he had \"no dog in the fight\" when New England made the playoffs last season.\n\nThe loss also put the Patriots' season in context. Nine games in, they sit as the third and final AFC Wild Card team, evidence of how far the roster still has to go even with Brady watching closely from the booth and, apparently, biting his tongue.","published_at":"2026-11-11T00:18:23.830842+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Awful Announcing","publisher":"Awful Announcing","title":"Mike Felger accuses Tom Brady of being ‘afraid’ to criticize Patriots","url":"https://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/mike-felger-tom-brady-afraid-criticize-patriots-first-game-new-england.html"},{"outlet":"Fox Sports","publisher":"Fox Sports","title":"Tom Brady On His Return From Deflategate: 'I Was There To Whoop Some Ass'","url":"https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/tom-brady-his-return-from-deflategate-i-whoop-some-ass"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Tom Brady Gives Blunt Assessment of Patriots Midway Through Season","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tom-brady-gives-blunt-assessment-172334440.html"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"‘There was some deli meat given out’: Tom Brady takes jab at Drake Maye","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/deli-meat-given-tom-brady-170746726.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Patriots Icon Tom Brady Takes Jab at Drake Maye Following Loss to Packers","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/patriots-icon-tom-brady-takes-174745565.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Tom Brady makes bold prediction Raiders will win Super Bowl in short order","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tom-brady-makes-bold-prediction-010404791.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Tom Brady Facing Serious Backlash for What He Said About Patriots QB Drake Maye","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tom-brady-facing-serious-backlash-012139265.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"'So freaking afraid': Boston radio host calls out Tom Brady","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/freaking-afraid-boston-radio-host-001502806.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Tom Brady tells hard truth about struggling Patriots","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tom-brady-tells-hard-truth-010809965.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://cdn1.thecomeback.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/2026/11/aabradyfelger.png","credit":"Awful Announcing","width":1500},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}