Nick Foles: Someday Tom Brady and I will talk about postgame snub

Hours after Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady told reporters he had no beef with Nick Foles, the Bears quarterback smiled when asked about one of the greatest players ever.

Brady famously left the field, rather than shake Foles’ hand, after the Eagles’ Super Bowl LII victory against the Patriots 2½ years ago. He did the same when Foles beat him earlier this month at Soldier Field.

‘‘You know, it’s happened a few times,” Foles said Thursday. “I’m sure that someday Tom and I will have a great conversation about it and probably just laugh at it.

“There’s obviously history there from a big game we both played in once and the other day on Thursday night. But it is what it is, and I think he’s a tremendous player.

“Someday we’ll have a good conversation.”

Both quarterbacks smiled awkwardly Thursday when discussing each other. The two have spoken before — they chatted at midfield after a preseason game in August 2018 — but they’re not close.

Foles referenced a joke that quarterback great Peyton Manning made in May, when he played against Brady in a nationally televised golf special. Manning was asked whom he could have brought as a caddie, and he named two players who had beaten Brady in the Super Bowl: his brother Eli and Foles. The latter went 29-for-43 for 373 yards and three touchdowns and had a touchdown catch to beat the -Patriots 41-33 on Feb. 4, 2018.

“I know, thinking back to the golf, Peyton was getting under [his] skin, and when he brought my name up, it got to him,” Foles said. “I don’t know why that is. We never had that conversation. But I think he’s a great player and obviously one of the greatest of all time.”

Foles was asked, tongue-in-cheek, how long it took him to recover from the perceived slight — on national television — after the Bears’ 20-19 win Oct. 8 over the Bucs.

“It wasn’t the first time it happened,” he said. ‘‘I just sort of laughed it off and sort of moved on with my life, and I’m sure he’s doing the same thing.”

Brady was quizzed about Foles earlier in the day, perhaps because the handshake — or lack of one — had been mentioned during a segment on NFL Network’s morning show earlier this week. Wearing a ballcap with his own TB12 logo on the front, Brady laughed when a reporter said there were “some folks wondering” about why he didn’t chat with Foles the same way he did with other quarterbacks this season.

“I think Nick Foles is a hell of a player and a Super Bowl champ, and I don’t know one reason or another why I wouldn’t do that,” he said. “Sometimes I’ve run off of the field; sometimes I haven’t.”

But Brady has spoken to quarterbacks from the Saints, Chargers and Packers — and others — during the Bucs’ 4-2 season.

“Sometimes if I have a personal relationship like I have with [the Saints’] Drew [Brees] and [the Chargers’] Justin [Herbert] and [the Packers’] Aaron [Rodgers] over the years,’’ Brady told reporters. “I don’t know. I don’t think it’s anything in particular.

“But I have great admiration for Nick, and I think that he’s a hell of a player. They’re off to a great start.”