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Foles: No beef with Brady over Super Bowl handshake snub

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Nick Foles harbors no ill will toward Tom Brady, who still hasn't reached out to the Super Bowl LII MVP after snubbing him of a handshake at the end of the championship game in February.

"No, I haven't," Foles said Wednesday when asked if he'd heard from Brady since the Super Bowl, according to ESPN's Tim McManus. "We both have a lot going on in our lives so, you know, in time."

Foles and Brady engaged in a classic Super Bowl battle, with the two quarterbacks stuffing the stat sheet and trading touchdowns for much of the night until Foles' Philadelphia Eagles came up with a late defensive stop to seal the contest.

Once the score went final and confetti started to fill the stadium, Brady left the field without finding Foles and congratulating him. The two are set to meet Thursday for the first time since that night as the Eagles and New England Patriots kick off Week 2 of the preseason.

"It will happen when it happens," Foles said of an exchange with Brady. "We practiced with the Patriots several years ago, and I got to stand there and talk to Tom for quite a bit. He's a great guy. I have all the respect in the world for him.

"I think everyone's making a really big deal out of this and it's not a big deal at all. I've already talked to him before, he's a guy I've always looked up to. You've got to admire someone who is probably the greatest ever and still going strong. I mean, even at his age he seems to get better and better. I've already had a conversation with him before when we practiced, so if we have one in the future, we'll have one and it will be cool."

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