The journey to the Super Bowl for the 2020-2021 Tampa Bay Buccaneers began last March. Tom Brady says he sold himself to the team. Many feel like it was likely the other way around. Whatever the lead-in, a 7-9 franchise had a new quarterback, new leader, and a light at the end of their losing culture tunnel. Or did they?
Doubt set in just as fast as the headlines hit every major and minor news outlet. Brady was too old, he was a system quarterback, he didn’t fit with Bruce Arians’ ‘no risk it, no biscuit’ mentality.