Moss recounts Belichick ripping Brady in film room

Tom Brady and Bill Belichick will inextricably be linked for the remainder of their careers, but the New England Patriots head coach isn't afraid to make an example out of the greatest player in franchise history.

Brady and Belichick are looking to win their fifth Super Bowl together, but over the years, the two-time MVP has been subject to criticism as much as any player.

Randy Moss recalled Belichick ripping into Brady for missing a 5-yard pass during practice, to The MMQB's Jenny Vrentas:

We were doing two-minute and I was the single receiver. Tom Brady gave me the signal to run a 5-yard quick out. Make a long story short, me and Tom didn’t connect. For whatever reason, the ball was not caught. The ball was thrown, but it was not caught. Was it his fault or my fault? I don’t care; the ball was not completed. So we come in the next day, Bill Belichick puts up the film and basically says, 'Are you kidding me? I have my such and such All-Pro wide receiver, and I have my All-Pro quarterback, and y’all cannot complete a 5-yard out?’ He said, 'Tom, I can go down here and get the local high school quarterback to come and complete me a 5-yard out.' And everybody was like, Oooh. So basically, when he humiliated Tom, in front of the boys, man, we went out there and put everybody up. I don't care who it was; whoever was on that defense that day, they got it. And that was practice.

Brady, evidently, doesn't seem to be perturbed by Belichick's criticism.

"(Belichick) has high expectations for us, and if we are not meeting those expectations, then he is going to let you know," Brady said. "He doesn’t let things slide by because you have been here for 10 years, or because you have been to two Pro Bowls. He doesn’t care about that … that will never change with him."

New England is the most successful organization of the century, and it's a testament to Brady's and Belichick's relationship that the team is once again in the mix for another Lombardi Trophy.