Seventeen years have passed since Tom Brady and the Patriots won the second of their back-to-back Super Bowls.
They remain the last team to reload and repeat as champion. But Brady came oh-so-close to doing it two other times, in the 2015 and 2017 seasons.
If past is prologue, Brady will at least lead the Bucs back to the postseason this year. He accomplished this in New England every season after winning a Super Bowl except one. And that doesn’t include two other times, in the 2007 and 2011 seasons, when the Patriots lost in the Super Bowl.