“What you do learn from watching (Brady) – and then watching the Patriots organization – you get a big-picture look at it,” Griffin said. “Man, honestly, they operate like a high school football team. You remember in high school, how the coach calls everybody up, everybody runs up, gets on a knee and looks at the coach like what he is saying is the most important thing in the world? That’s how the Patriots are.

"They’re attentive. They run on and off the field. They run after practice. They do what they have to do – and everyone understands, whether they like it or not, this is what it takes to win championships. And they won the championship.