Tyrann Mathieu claims Tom Brady 'called me something I won't repeat' in deleted tweet

"He called me something I won't repeat."

Tyrann Mathieu didn’t seem to like how social media responded to the Kansas City Chiefs safety’s trash talking Tom Brady.

Mathieu and Brady got into a heated exchange during the first half of Super Bowl LV. Mathieu came away from the tiff with an unsportsmanlike penalty — and received a fair amount of criticism on Twitter for firing up Brady, who would go on to win Super Bowl MVP in the Buccaneers’ win. The Honey Badger took to Twitter to air his grievances, but he deleted his tweets not long after sharing them.

“He called me something I won’t repeat but yeah I’ll let all the media throw me under bus as if I did something or said something to him,” Mathieu wrote on Twitter in his now-deleted tweet. “Go back to my previous games against TB12 I showed him nothing but respect. Look at my interviews about him… I show grace.”

Mathieu didn’t leave the topic alone. He had more to say on Brady during a postgame videoconference.

“I never really saw that side of Tom Brady, to be honest. But whatever. I’m over it. No comment,” Mathieu told reporters in a Zoom interview. He added that Brady is a great quarterback.

Brady isn’t one to shy away from trash talk, but this interaction might have been different than the typical back and forth. As far what Brady called Mathieu, it’s unclear. But because most stars get mic’d up for the Super Bowl, we may find out more about the interaction in the coming days.