When Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht orchestrated the signing of Tom Brady in free agency ahead of the 2020 season, it wasn’t his first time being associated with the six-time Super Bowl winner.
Licht, 49, worked for the Patriots in one of his early NFL roles prior to the start of the Bill Belichick era.
“I got my first job with the Patriots in 1999,” Licht said in a press conference earlier this week. “It was my first full-time scouting job for a club. We went 8-8 that year. Pete Carroll was the coach. He was let go, and then Bill Belichick was hired and went right into draft meetings the minute he walked into the building.