Patriots quarterback Tom Brady addressed a media gathering today for the first time since the Super Bowl. And based on a reading of the transcript of his comments, the Associated Press appears to have misunderstood a joke he made about the ankle injury that got so much attention in February.

Both the Boston Globe and Boston Herald posted this verbatim transcript of a question and Brady’s answer:

How is the ankle and were you able to participate in the off season program as much as you have in the past?
“The ankle feels great. Yeah. It feels really good. I’ve been able to do pretty much everything. I’m still slow. I still can’t jump. I still don’t lift very much. That hasn’t changed.”

Brady seems to be making a self-deprecating joke about his lack of athleticism, but only after clarifying that “the ankle feels great.”

But the AP article suggests that Brady is still hurting. The first sentence of the AP article says, “Brady says he is slow and can’t jump because of lingering effects of an ankle injury late last season.”

No, that’s not what Brady said. He said he is slow and can’t jump because he’s slow and can’t jump. Maybe this is why the Patriots usually don’t talk to the media about injuries at all.