“I kind of did anything for him,” Julian Edelman said back in 2015. “If he needed something, I’ll go get ’em.” That loyalty to Tom Brady never faded. Even years after their last game together, Edelman still talks about the quarterback with awe. His respect for Brady ran deep, and at the Patriots Hall of Fame ceremony, the 39-year-old revealed the very first message they exchanged as teammates.

Edelman got Foxborough buzzing as he shared how he first met Brady. ”One of the first things Tom Brady ever said to me — I think we had just gotten out of our first practice. I’d been watching him throw and thinking, ‘Man, you work so hard,’” the ex-Patriots wide receiver said.

Then came the moment that stuck with him forever. “He (Brady) looked at me with those blue eyes and that jaw

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