Tom Brady hasn’t dropped many regular-season openers in his 20-year career, but when he has — just three times before 2020 — the NFL’s verifiable G.O.A.T. has always bounced back with a win the next week.
While it remains to be seen whether Brady, 43, remains a championship-caliber quarterback, it was good to see that with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 31-17 over the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, at the very least Brady’s penchant for season-ending resiliency remains intact.
“I think he has a pretty good history of that,” Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said after the game.