Tom Brady, the quarterback for the Buccaneers, missed 11 days of training camp. In the Let's Go! Premiere episode from 2022, he had the opportunity to explore the subject properly, but unsurprisingly, he chose not to.
Bucs-Cowboys is preceded by Sunday's Football Night in America episode, which features a sit-down with Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy. Tampa Bay coach Todd Bowles saw a silver lining in the nearly two-week absence of the most crucial player in pewter.
Through JoeBucsFan.com, Bowles told Dungy, "I felt it was a good thing." And it assisted us in improving our running strategy. It's like, "Okay, we have to play with Kyle Trask or Blaine Gabbert; let's develop what we need to do to win the game." And I believe that since we gave our run game a bit more attention during that process—something we probably wouldn't have done without his presence—we were able to improve it slightly. In the long run, I believe it has benefited us. We realized that we are a team, not simply one guy and a team.
To turn an obvious negative into a positive, it appears as though a serious effort is being made to see the glass as half full. Furthermore, it begs the genuine question of what Bowles means when he uses the term "long run." If/when Brady leaves in 2023, Gabbert and Trask's representatives would be useful. Of course, they'll also get a lot of reps during that time. (If they are available possibilities for the job.) And another area that can be improved once Brady leaves is the run game, to the extent that it will play a larger role in the team's inevitable post-Brady existence.
So, the genuine query is as follows. Does Bowles believe that the work completed while Brady was out of the lineup will be beneficial in the "long haul" of the season, in the unlikely event that Brady decides to go "all in" once more? Jim Gray brought up the idea of NBA-style load management with Brady at one point in the new Let's Go!, which can be construed as raising the prospect that Brady will take a game off at some time in the marathon rather than the sprint of a 17-game regular season. Given the lengthened NFL season starting in 2021, Brady's response did little to dispel the hazy prospect that a 45-year-old quarterback would benefit from a second bye even if the rest of his team doesn't.
Whatever the case, the circumstance is wholly unheard of. And since one of the things we attempt to do here is digest news, evaluate its significance, and spin it forward, everything still appears to be up for discussion in terms of whether Brady will accompany the Buccaneers to every stop on a trip that begins in just four days.
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