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Pick 6? Not even. A look at 2 who picked off Brady this year

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- Let's look at the really bad throws Tom Brady made this year.

It shouldn't take that long.

The four-time Super Bowl champion was intercepted only twice in 2016. With his 28 touchdown passes, that's the best ratio in NFL history.

That makes Brady one of the favorites to be the leaugue's Most Valuable Player for a third time - even though he missed four games while serving his ''Deflategate'' suspension.

But nobody's perfect.

So The Associated Press talked to the two opponents who caught Brady napping this season, Seattle's DeShawn Shead and Baltimore's Eric Weddle, about being in such an exclusive group:

HOW DID IT HAPPEN

The Patriots had thrown the ball an NFL record 258 times without an interception this season - that's between Brady and Deflategate subs Jimmy Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett - before Brady took a first-down snap at his own 36 in the second quarter of New England's Nov.