![]() ![]() Woodson's strip of Brady on a blitz with less than two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter of the final game at Foxboro Stadium went down in NFL history when it prompted referee Walt Coleman to go to the replay and reverse what had originally been ruled a fumble that was recovered by linebacker Greg Biekert. He's someone I really have to know where he's at on every play." He's trying to strip the ball out on every play. He gets his hands on a lot of balls, not only in the pass game but in the run game. We've known each other for 20 years and I have a lot of respect for him as a player, as a person, friend, and he looks phenomenal back there. I practiced against Charles when I was in college. ![]() He's also made an interception, the 57th of his career, tops among active players. I can't say enough about how impressed I've been watching him on film."Īpproaching his 38th birthday, there's reason to be impressed with Woodson, who enters Sunday's game with the Patriots ranked third on the Raiders in tackles with 23. He makes plays all over the field - very aggressive, instinctive, strong tackler, tough. "He doesn't look like a 17-year veteran, I'll tell you that. "Woodson is extremely impressive," Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said. The 1997 Heisman Trophy winner from Michigan spent his first eight seasons in the league with Oakland, then went to Green Bay for seven before returning to the Raiders in 2013. Yes, today, more than 12 years after the play that turned that AFC divisional-round playoff game around, Woodson is still at it, back where it all began for him as the starting free safety for the Oakland Raiders. He's got long arms, (is a) really strong tackler, he's been a ball hawk his entire career." "He was making plays back then and he's still making plays the same way. "I don't think we ever talked about that, but I remember it very well and I'm sure he does, too," the play's other co-star, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, said Wednesday. FOXBORO - He has never played a down for them, but he shall forever have a prominent part in Patriots history.Ĭharles Woodson was, after all, the co-star in the "tuck rule" play in that NFL melodrama we've come to know as the "Snow Bowl." ![]()
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