Boy, were the last five minutes of Super Bowl XLVI tough to watch.

It seemed like Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady had the Giants backed into a corner, with New England up 17-15 and just more than four minutes remaining. Brady was in New York territory hunting for the score that would seal the deal.

Then, on second-and-11, usually sure-handed slot receiver Wes Welker dropped what looked like a catchable ball five yards away from the nearest defender. The missed connection had all the makings of a classic Super Bowl moment, since it stopped a drive which could have secured Brady his fourth ring and a share of the record for most all-time.

The immediate reaction of most fans is to wonder how Welker could have dropped that pass. Indeed, any time a receiver gets both hands firmly on the ball, the expectation is they’ll pull it in.

But Welker, who at 5-foot-9 is about three inches shorter than the average NFL wide receiver, was fed the ball well over his head and slightly behind him in his route. Without excusing him for dropping a catch he should have made, it was an impressive play just for him to get his hands on it.

This fact, however, didn’t do Welker much good in the post-game press conference.

“It hit me right in the hands,” he said. “I mean, it’s a play I never drop, I always make. The most critical situation and I let the team down.”

Gisele Bundchen, Brady’s outspoken-supermodel wife, shared Welker’s sentiment after the game. As the Brazilian bombshell was waiting for an elevator to take her from her suite at Lucas Oil Stadium, she let loose a lurid tirade aimed at nearby hecklers reminding her of the Patriots’ fourth-quarter collapse.

“My husband cannot f—— throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can’t believe they dropped the ball so many times,” Bundchen said in a video captured by theinsider.com.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times’ Bill Zwecker, Brady was upset when he heard about the video because he worried about his teammates’ reactions.

But while the former Victoria’s Secret Angel should have saved the profanity until she was securely inside the elevator, and even though there is plenty of blame to go around, no one should expect her to have anything nice to say about Welker’s performance. She didn’t say anything half the country wasn’t yelling Sunday night.

And the only thing America likes more than playing Monday Morning Quarterback is a model with a foul mouth.