It’s only when Brady stops being stiff and stilted, and starts being his true trash-talking, analytical self that the documentary takes off.īrady’s breakdown of what he didn’t know or see as a rookie is fascinating. The conversation’s stilted, the jokes creaky. The first few minutes of the Brady/Woodson viewing party are a look at what kind of awkward Manningcast knockoffs are headed our way soon. Without much success against Brady’s impenetrable wall of certainty and self-belief, but still. To his credit, Woodson not only agreed to break down the agony frame-by-frame, but he continues to argue his side of the story to this day. If Woodson hadn’t won a Super Bowl of his own with the Green Bay Packers in the 2010 season, it would’ve been downright cruel.
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Brady welcomes Woodson to his enormous Florida estate to relive, face to face, one of the worst moments of Woodson’s professional career.
“The Tuck Rule” aims to explain the tuck rule, and it does so through a conceit that’s honestly a little mean-spirited. The "Tuck Rule" documentary features Charles Woodson prominently, but make no mistake: It tells the story of the infamous play Tom Brady's way. Upon further review, the officials determined that Brady’s move fell under Rule 3, Section 22, Article 2 of the NFL rulebook - also known as the "tuck rule." Under that rule, a quarterback who is pulling the ball back to their chest is permitted to continue the “tuck” motion until the ball hits the body - and if the ball is dislodged in the course of that motion, it’s an incomplete pass … even though it’s clear there was no intent to pass the ball at all. The Raiders fell on it, and the game appeared over. At this point in their careers, Woodson was much better at his job than Brady was at his, and Woodson drove hard into the defenseless Brady, dislodging the ball. But at that moment, Charles Woodson, the Heisman-winning former teammate of Brady’s at Michigan came swooping in from Brady’s right. On a crucial third-and-long, Brady dropped back to pass and, seeing nothing, pulled the ball back toward his chest. Snow fell throughout the game, a thick, gentle carpet so beautiful even Bill Belichick of all people was moved to call it “romantic.” The snow lay so heavy on the field that neither team could manage much more than slow marches down it, and with a little under two minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Patriots trailed 13-10. The Patriots hadn’t even won the first of their six Super Bowls when the Raiders came to town, hellbent on knocking out these pretenders and their replacement QB. This was before Tom Brady became the GOAT, before the Patriots became the destroyers of worlds. “The Tuck Rule” centers on a crucial play at the end of the Raiders-Patriots game. Co-produced by 199 Productions - which just happens to be the production company of one Tom Brady - it’s a carefully curated version of the truth, one that just happens to break Brady’s way at every turn. In a more accurate sense, though, “The Tuck Rule” is the first step in the construction of the post-NFL Tom Brady.
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This weekend, ESPN will debut “The Tuck Rule,” a “documentary” in the sense that it’s a series of real people discussing, dissecting and squabbling over a real historical event - the fateful play in a 2001 season AFC divisional round game between the New England Patriots and then-Oakland Raiders.
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