 Live from Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE, covering VTUG's New England Winter Warmer 2017. Now your host, Stu Miniman. All aboard, we're back here at the VTUG Winter Warmer 2017. I'm Stu Miniman, and we're at Gillette Stadium and really thrilled to welcome our final guest of the day, Deion Branch, of course, Super Bowl, 39 MVP. I remember many games here at Gillette Stadium and watching you. Thanks so much for joining us. Man, truly appreciate you. Why am I last, though? Well, you gotta save the best for last. I appreciate you. I mean, this is it. You're our closer man. Yes, sir. This is when I need to go to, who do we throw to? We're throwing to you. I'll do my best. Awesome. So much. So, Deion, I mean, so many memories here. You think back twice with the Patriots, spent a little time up in Seattle with, I remember Pete Carroll when he was coach here. I almost stopped getting my tickets for those years, but he did well up there in Seattle. Great team. Yes. And good there. You look back at your career. What's some of your favorite memories? Man, it's clearly the Super Bowl. Super Bowl victories. I think overall, you know, I have an opportunity to be drafted by a first class organization such as the Patriots. And then also, you know, being traded to Seattle, that's another first class organization. And then having the opportunity to come back, you know, just to finish my career here. I mean, I had a little coffee break. That's what they call it in Indianapolis. That was cool, but I think overall, just being a part of this organization and having an opportunity to win two Super Bowls, we actually went to one we lost. We don't like talking about that one, but it's okay. I think overall, the overall experience, you know, just a childhood dream, you know, just being blessed and very thankful for the opportunity that I had to be here. Yeah. And, you know, the fans loved you while you were here. Yes. I got to compare and contrast for us, you know, Seattle is a class organization. They got that 12th man up there. We got some great fans here in New England. I mean, you know, 12th fan, raise a flag and stuff like that. We got better fans here, right? Way better fans. I think our thing is the fans here, you know, very spoiled. And I think that's the player's job. We do a great job of spoiling our fans. The guys in Seattle did just at the time when I was traded. Just wasn't used to actually winning, dah, dah, dah. Then now, unfortunately they won a Super Bowl, which is great. You know, it's probably one of the toughest stadiums to play in. You know, you come here, everybody's relaxed. Everybody's very nice, you know, but expectations are very high. The bar is very high here. There's been a couple of playoff games we get kind of loud here, but this is not a loud stadium. I've been to a couple others. It's louder, some other places, but you know, good support, good knowledgeable fan base. You know, you played here in, I mean, Golden Era. I mean, I started, you know, Aftercraft had bought the team and had a great run, but people would have been here. I mean, you know, many years that, you know, the Patriots had to build up and weren't, you know, the, as you said, you know, if we don't make the Patriots, the playoffs, it's like, oh my God, what happened? And we just won another ring. That's all that's about here. That's the only thing, that's what it's about here. You know, the pedigree speaks for itself. Coach Belichick, he sets the tone early, early and often, each and every year. You know, once the season is over, it's time to move on to the next year. You know, regardless if we win a Super Bowl or not, you know, we're in a playoff game, we get to the Super Bowl we win. We may celebrate for about a week. You know, then it's time to move forward to the next season. And once you get acclimated to that type of thing and going up under those situations, you understand what it's all about. It's all about right now in the present time. You know, the culture, do your job, all that stuff. All day. So you had the pleasure of working, you know, with one of the best players in the, you know, greatest of all time, you know, Tom Brady the goat, right, TV 12? Yes. We see him on social media. We see him on commercials. It seems like he's a funny, you know, you know, little bit, you know, geeky almost at times there, you know, tell us what, tell me your favorite Tom Brady members is. He is funny. Oh, he seems very funny. But I'm gonna tell you one thing what a lot of people don't understand about Tom. You see his competitive nature on the football field and that's my brother. Don't get mad at me, Tom. But I'll never forget that one day I beat him in the locker room. Well, it was during training camp and we had a little break, a two hour break or whatever. And we was playing ping pong and Tom lost like three times in a row. I beat him three times straight and it was like 15 guys waiting for next. And he just completely broke all the paddles. He was so mad, but it just goes to show you how competitive this guy is. He wants to win, you know, I mean win at everything. So clearly you know what it is on the football field. The expectations is very high for this guy. He sets the bar very high for himself and also his teammates. Yeah, I mean, I know people here in New England know, you know, he gets there early. He wants to win the competition for training camp for like, you know, the spots and everything. He's out there. That must set some of the culture if, you know, the golden boy, you know, does that. Everybody else needs to focus. And I think the younger guy, I see that. You know, he's setting the tone for the team not only just for the veteran guys, but you have these young guys who come in every year and think that once they get drafted, they've done enough. That's it. No, it's more to it than that. I mean, clearly if you see Tom Brady busting his behind every day, then you know clearly I got to do the same thing. I need to follow in the suit as well. Yeah. Kirk, you know, Tom's on this whole health kick. I mean, he's pliable and he's doing all this training. I mean, it used to be, you know, you had off seasons and things like that and you know, kind of diet and exercise. Did you see that over your career as to kind of them getting more technical and more involved and all that? Yeah, I mean, you see a bunch of guys doing that. You know, we're looking at my guy, Teddy Brusky, behind me. But you know, all the veteran guys, once you go through this certain rain and you play one, two, three, four, five years, you try to figure out what's your niche. Give me some sort of things to kind of alter my off season program. And you know, the health thing has always been a big issue. If you want to play entirely, if you want to play 20 years, you know, such as Tom, Tom want to play 20 plus years. That's the most important thing. If you stay healthy, you can play those years. So, Deion, I know you've got a lot of things to do. We appreciate you coming. And last question I've got for you. I mean, you look like you could go out and play on Sunday. A big game coming up, you know, Patriots, Steelers. What's your call? What's the score going to be? You know, what's going to happen? I think it's going to be a real good game. The Pittsburgh has always been a team that we see towards the end of the year. I mean, you got to expect the Steelers to be there Baltimore. I mean, this was an off year for the Ravens. The expectation is for Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Flacco, and Ben Rothersburg. That's what it's been. And this is what we expected. And I think the guys are going to go out and take care of business. Who knows, man? 24, 20, you know, Patriots. You know, my guys are going to put it off and I get back to the Super Bowl and get another ring. Deion Brandt, two-time Super Bowl champion. Super Bowl 39 MVP. Thank you so much for watching. We'll be back to wrap up here at the VTUG Winter Warmer 2017. You're watching The Cube at the home of the New England Patriots.