(WXYT) Matthew Stafford, traditionally a man of few meaningful words in press scrums, weighed in Tuesday on a private discussion he had with the Patriots' Tom Brady during the Lions practice for Thursday's preseason opener against the New England Patriots.
What did they talk about?
"What was coming up next, just anything and everything," Stafford reported to the gathered media. "It wasn't anything too enlightening."
He went on to give his personal impression of the superstar quarterback who still throws hard at 42 years old.
Jeff Riger asked if it blew his mind that Brady, a health nut father of three married to a swimsuit supermodel, is still going strong.
And Stafford actually answered.
"Yeah, I mean the guy looks young and does a great job when he's out there. Moving around good and he's still a really, really good player."
Brady has said he plans to play until he's 45. Stafford is 30.
In other comparisons, Brady has six Super Bowl wins under his belt and Stafford as yet has none.
But they do share some traits, per SB Nation, which wrote, "And like Brady, (Stafford) is reliable when his team needs him the most. Stafford is responsible for 20 game-winning drives in his last four seasons, including eight in 2016. That means his late-game heroics were the catalyst behind 89 percent of his team's win total that season. Brady, over the same span, produced 13 fourth quarter, game-winning drives — though four of those game in the postseason.
"Stafford isn't Brady, but he's the best quarterback the Lions have seen since Bobby Layne. Even his modest team success in the playoff black hole of Detroit has to be viewed as an accomplishment. Give me a decade of that stability with a little room to grow vs. three guaranteed playoff appearances from Brady. In this case, "very good" finds a way to outweigh "great."
Brady wrote the book on Super Bowl wins -- literally. It's called "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance." But did he try to sell him his book, a journalist asked Stafford.
Detroit's QB broke into smiles.
"No, no," he protested.
