Report: Tom Brady Actually Might Be Positioned To Fall Flat With Buccaneers

Former Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will give the Tampa Bay Buccaneers everything they lacked in the past few years. Some say Tom Brady will fall flat with the Bucs.

The Buccaneers have Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, O.J. Howard, Cameron Brate and Rob Gronkowski on the roster. Things look really good for the Buccaneers.

However, the Buccaneers’ offensive philosophy suggests something else. Let’s break it up for you. Buccaneers quarterbacks coach Clyde Christensen said that head coach Bruce Arians wants to “keep the offense the same” in the upcoming season. The Buccaneers are planning to use “Bruce’s offense with a Brady influence.”

This may not be such a bad theory. The Bucs ranked third in the NFL in total yards per game (397.9) and tied for third in points per game (28.6) in 2019. This happened the problems Tampa had with Jameis Winston. The Bucs can really use Brady instead of the current signal-caller. But, how will the 43-year-old fit in this system?

“If they ask Tom Brady to do what Jameis Winston did, just with fewer interceptions and more effectiveness, he won’t make it to Year 2 of this contract,” Nick Wright said on Friday’s episode of “First Things First” on FOX Sports 1. “He’s 43 years old, but he’s not a wizard. The idea that he can’t get beaten up, that he can’t get knocked out of the game. If you ask him to take five- and seven-step drops, stare in the face of pressure — like Bruce Arians asked Carson Palmer to do in Arizona — and get the snot beat out of him, then 2020 will be his only year with the Tampa Bay Bucs.”

Will Tom Brady fall flat?

Brady and Winston are so different. Their styles are different. Brady knows how to work in the pocket. Winston has a different arm strength.

“I don’t think it’s gonna go as well as it could go,” former NFL coach Eric Mangini said Friday on FS1. “They should say, ‘This is a Brady offense with an Arians influence,’ as opposed to the other way around. When you take a guy who’s done something for 20 years — and done it at a very high level — and put him in a new environment, what you wanna do is make him as comfortable as possible as quickly as possible. And that means doing the things that he knows, or things that he understands, the things that he has the answers to, as opposed to forcing him to learn a bunch of new things and slowing down his thought process. It really doesn’t make any sense.

“There’s so many things that Tom has to learn. It’s not that he can’t learn it. It’s not that he’s slow. That’s just why not allow him to start as fast as he possible can and be as effective as he possible can right away.”