Former NFL cornerback Asante Samuel’s bio on social media website X is ‘Professional S— Talker.’ He backed that claim up with a string of posts targeting former teammate Tom Brady on Feb. 4.
Samuel called out the former New England Patriots quarterback for saying he wasn’t going to root for the Patriots in Super Bowl 60 on the latest episode of his ‘Let’s Go!’ podcast. Brady said he didn’t ‘have a dog in the fight in this one’ and will just be rooting for a good game between his former team and the Seattle Seahawks.
‘Tom Brady I am highly I mean highly disappointed in you not rooting for your ex teammate, (current Patriots head coach) Mike Vrabel who is about to do something special,’ Samuel wrote in one post on X.
Note: Samuel’s posts contain language that may be sensitive for some readers.
About 15 minutes later, Samuel followed up with another post.
‘Brady you can’t be the only one winning super bowls. Let me find out you hating on (Patriots starting quarterback) Drake Maye and Vrabel,’ he wrote. ”I don’t have a dog in this fight’ Not what I wanted to hear. Brady knows how I get down. This ain’t nothing new to him.’
Four hours after his second post ripping into Brady, Samuel posted twice more, calling the former Patriots quarterback ‘Flaw A– Brady’ and giving him 23 hours to respond, threatening to go ‘ape (expletive) about who you are.’
Samuel, 45, won two Super Bowls with Brady, Vrabel and the Patriots early in his playing career. He was a four-time Pro Bowler and member of the 2007 All-Pro first team in his final season with New England.
After five years with the Patriots, he played four seasons with the Eagles and two with the Falcons. Samuel finished his 11-year career after 2013 with 51 interceptions, a category in which he led the NFL in 2006 (10 interceptions) and 2009 (9).