FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- One of the highlight plays from the final practice of New England Patriots mandatory minicamp came when cornerback Eric Rowe intercepted a Tom Brady pass intended for receiver Danny Amendola up the right sideline.

“We were just running our zone coverages, and I was just reading Tom. He tried to slip it in behind me because I saw Danny through the peripheral, kind of do the out and up,” Rowe detailed. “I just made a play on the ball.”

Rowe made a few plays on the ball in practice, taking advantage of an increase in repetitions with cornerback Malcolm Butler not present on Thursday. And while there was a brief on-field celebration for the pick, Rowe -- who is in his first full offseason with the Patriots -- made sure not to talk trash to Brady.

He said he learned from linebacker Elandon Roberts to stay buttoned up in that regard.

“Elandon told me that he did that his rookie year [in 2016] and Tom exposed him,” Rowe relayed. “So I was like, ‘Oooh, I will never. I don’t want to say nothing to him.’”

Brady always takes those interceptions hard, as he explained Thursday during an appearance at a Tony Robbins event.

“Everyone finds different forms of motivation. I’m very happy with the ways I’ve found it,” Brady said at the Boston-based event. “I left practice today, it’s my 18th year, my 18th offseason, and we were on the field for two-and-a-half hours and I thought, ‘I am the worst quarterback in the NFL. How could I have possibly made those throws? That was so dumb to do that!’

“When I walk off the field and I think ‘Man, if it’s not perfect for me’, I lose sleep. I threw an interception today, and I feel like I let the whole team down; I let all my teammates down. I let all the people who are investing in us and our team -- our fans and coaches, everyone who is sacrificing the hours on the weekend to watch, or the coaches that are sacrificing time with their family, or the players that are sacrificing all the things that are pretty robust at this point in their life, and I let them down.

“I can’t do that. I think that’s what motivates me.”