At one point during Bruce Arians’ news conference capping his farewell as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' head coach, he took one last jab at the conspiracy theory bound to linger beyond the 2022 season. Specifically, the one that put Arians at loggerheads with Tom Brady, allegedly leading to the quarterback’s brief retirement this offseason.
“People got to write s***,” Arians said. “It couldn’t be further from the truth.”
It was an interesting moment because it leans into reinforcing a question that has never been fully answered about Brady. The one that seeks to know why, after less than six weeks, Brady came back out of retirement on March 13.