Three reasons why Buccaneers will repeat as Super Bowl champs: Tom Brady will be better in Year 2, more

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers made a habit out of shocking the NFL in 2020. At the start of free agency, they left the entire league’s jaws on the floor when they were able to lure Tom Brady to Tampa. From there, we all know the story. Not only did they find success, but they won three road playoff games en-route to a Super Bowl berth and became the first team in Super Bowl history to play the game in their home stadium. Against the Chiefs, Tampa’s defense suffocated Patrick Mahomes while Brady and company went on to win the franchise’s second title in team history. 

Now, they’re looking to do it again. The Bucs will enter the 2021 season trying to repeat as champions, a feat that hasn’t been done since Brady’s Patriots climbed the mountain in back-to-back years in 2003 and 2004. While it’s a tough thing to accomplish,

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Buccaneers, Quarterback Tom Brady, Playbook Know-how, Offense

Amid a training camp that has been in any other case correctly satisfactory, Tom Brady won’t be able to seem to get 1 aspect of his overall performance up to his normal standards.

Brady satisfied with the media soon after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Thursday early morning training camp follow and was marginally but significantly hoarse at the microphone. He laughed along at concerns about his vocal cords.

“I know, I cannot get it back,” he said when smiling. “It feels really good in the early morning and by the time practice finishes [it goes away]. I have to get my voice in form too along with my legs and every little thing else. You’re barking out alerts and there are a ton of persons out right here. Other than that, [I’m] emotion genuinely potent and actually great.”

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Tom Brady lashes out at ‘ignorant’ NFL players and here’s what set off the Buccaneers quarterback

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It’s not often you hear Tom Brady lash out at every player in the NFL, but that’s exactly what he did on Thursday. 

The Buccaneers quarterback referred to NFL players as “ignorant” and it seems the thing that set him off was the release of Forbes’ annual list of the NFL’s most valuable franchises. Brady seemed to be especially irritated by the fact that the salary cap went down this year even though the NFL’s 32 teams actually increased in value by an average of 14% (The overall increase was slightly surprising, but only because the NFL lost billions due to the pandemic).

As far as franchise value goes, no team had a bigger jump in value than Brady’s Bucs. After adding Brady — and then winning the Super Bowl — the Buccaneers jumped from being the 29th most valuable team in the NFL in 2020 ($2.28

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Why Tom Brady’s big injury from 2020 could lead to a major NFL punishment for the Buccaneers

It’s not easy to upstage yourself after six Super Bowl wins, but Tom Brady definitely managed to do that last season and that’s because not only did he end up winning his seventh Lombardi Trophy, but he did it in a year where he played the entire season with a torn MCL. 

The man won a Super Bowl playing on one leg!

Although this will look legendary on Brady’s résumé, it’s not necessarily a good thing for the Buccaneers that this injury news leaked out on Thursday and that’s because it could put them in hot water with the NFL. 

The problem for the Buccaneers is that if Brady played the entire season with an MCL tear, then he should have been listed on the team’s injury report each week during the season. The NFL has a specific rule that covers this exact situation and the rule is pretty clear. 

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Tom Brady played through a fully torn MCL during Buccaneers’ Super Bowl season, per report

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The story of Tom Brady’s first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers has become even more unbelievable. While the 43-year-old set a franchise record with 40 passing touchdowns and led the Buccaneers to a Super Bowl victory, he apparently did so on a fully torn MCL.

On Thursday, Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network reported that Brady played the 2020 season on a fully torn MCL — an injury which he had corrected via surgery this offseason. Previously, we didn’t get many specifics about the mysterious knee surgery Brady had, except that the future Pro Football Hall of Famer described it as “pretty serious,” and it was something Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians was wary of in mandatory minicamp. Brady also admitted that it was an issue he had been playing through for some time. 

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