The JoeBucsFan web site apparently steered that Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles deliberately or unintentionally threw retired quarterback Tom Brady “below the bus.”
Bowles in contrast the 2022 Detroit Lions going 8-2 after Halloween to how the 2023 Buccaneers gained 5 of their ultimate six regular-season video games to assert the NFC South division title.
“I’m positive [the Lions] really feel like they’ve grit as a result of they got here on final yr, and so they got here on to be very robust and so they proved mentally robust this yr,” Bowles stated throughout a Wednesday information convention. “We bought mentally robust this yr. They in all probability bought a yr head begin on us, however there’s some similarities that means [between the Lions and Bucs]. However we’re nonetheless two totally different groups.”
Tampa Bay performs at Detroit within the divisional spherical of the continuing postseason event this coming Sunday.
Bowles served as head coach of the 2022 Tampa Bay facet that gained the division title with a regular-season report of 8-9 earlier than the crew misplaced to the Dallas Cowboys 31-14 within the wild-card spherical of the playoffs.
Whereas that Buccaneers squad might not have been “mentally robust” per Bowles’ phrases, Tampa Bay notched a 32-9 wild-card victory over the Philadelphia Eagles this previous Monday night time.
Bowles provided his feedback after star vast receiver Chris Godwin stated following Monday’s win that present Tampa Bay gamers “are enjoying free” in comparison with how “we have been enjoying actually tight” when Brady and never Baker Mayfield was atop the depth chart final January.
It was reported final spring that not less than some inside the Buccaneers have been “relieved and rejuvenated and recharged” after Brady retired “for good” in February 2023, presumably as a result of the long run Corridor of Famer was “checked out” final season whereas coping with issues associated to his divorce from Gisele Bündchen after 13 years of marriage.
Brady will eternally be thought to be a Tampa Bay legend after he guided the membership to a Tremendous Bowl victory in February 2021. Nevertheless, there proceed to be hints that his ultimate season with the group left a foul style in some mouths despite the fact that no one related to the Buccaneers might straight use these phrases anytime quickly.
