It’s a classy gesture from the greatest quarterback of all time. But given the team he used to play for\u2014and his no “dog in the fight”<\/a> mentality heading into the Super Bowl\u2014it may or may not sit well with Patriots fans.<\/p>\n “Tom Brady texted me. That was cool,” MacDonald said on The Rich Eisen Show.<\/p>\n Eisen followed up by asking, “Tom Brady’s like, ‘Way to go?'”<\/p>\n “Yeah,” said MacDonald. “That was cool. I did tell him, I said, ‘Hey, thanks for stealing our OC.'”<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n Brady, who is a partial owner of the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a>, had a vested interest in the Super Bowl with the Raiders hiring former Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak as their new head coach. There’s also the Patriots side of things\u2014you know, the team that erected a statue in Brady’s honor after he took them to six Super Bowls.<\/p>\n Nobody can steal the memories of Brady’s historic run in New England and two decades of success. But anyone thinking that the NFL legend would parade around as a Patriots mascot, while moonlighting as a partial owner of another football team, was sadly mistaken.<\/p>\n Follow Patriots Wire on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 26, 2026, 12:18 a.m. ET While the New England Patriots were licking their wounds and dealing with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[95878,7,6,238,237,261,2635,96851,96852,95882,95885,96854,95895,95897,95906,95977,95883,97971,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-777092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-seahawks","12":"tag-seattle","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks","14":"tag-seattleseahawks","15":"tag-sstssportsnflpatriots","16":"tag-sstsnpatriots","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-taglas-vegas-raiders","19":"tag-tagnew-england-patriots","20":"tag-tagnfl-hub","21":"tag-tagoverall-negative","22":"tag-tagoverall-positive","23":"tag-tagseattle-seahawks","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-tagsuper-bowl-60","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772090896_519_86371878007-cardis-1.jpg\")