It’s arduous to discover a extra depressing man in all of America proper now than Tom Brady.
Not solely is his marriage to supermodel Gisele Bündchen on the rocks, with Web page Six solely reporting that the 2 sides have retained divorce attorneys, his Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been struggling in a giant approach in 2022 – with the bottom level of the season coming Sunday after they have been blown out, 21-3, by a Panthers staff which fired its head coach, traded its star operating again and is on its third-string quarterback.
After the sport, Brady expressed his frustrations bluntly in a press convention.
“Nobody feels good about the place we’re at, nobody feels good about how we’ve performed or what we’re doing,” the 45-year-old quarterback advised reporters, with the Bucs now sitting at 3-4 (but nonetheless tied for first within the NFC South). “We’re all in it collectively. We’ve gotta go pull ourselves out of it.”
In accordance with ESPN, the Bucs’ locker room after the loss to the Panthers was somber, with gamers sitting “at their lockers visibly surprised and staring on the flooring in silence.” Tampa Bay was a double-digit favourite on the street towards Carolina, which had simply traded away All-Professional operating again Christian McCaffrey to the 49ers and receiver Robbie Anderson to the Cardinals. Each Panthers quarterbacks — Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold — have been unavailable for the sport on account of harm, with journeyman backup P.J. Walker getting the beginning.
But the Bucs, who got here into the sport having misplaced three of 4 (together with a Week 6 loss to the Steelers and backup QB Mitchell Trubisky), have been unable to do something towards the Panthers’ Twenty third-ranked protection (per DVOA). On the staff’s first drive, Tampa receiver Mike Evans streaked extensive open down the sphere, and Brady hit him proper within the palms for what ought to have been a walk-in landing. Nevertheless, the Professional Bowl receiver bobbled the move and was unable to safe it, watching the ball fall to the grass in entrance of him.
The Bucs didn't get one other landing scoring alternative the entire afternoon, managing solely a 27-yard Ryan Succop area purpose.
“We’re not taking part in effectively. We’re not taking part in effectively as people, we’re not taking part in effectively as a staff,” head coach Todd Bowles advised reporters after the sport. “We’re not teaching effectively. Throughout. We’re not scoring sufficient on offense. We’re not stopping them sufficient on protection. So consequently – now we have to put on this on our sleeve. We’ve bought to be grown males. We’re going to see what we’re product of – how many individuals can deal with adversity? That is as darkish because it’s going to be proper now.”
The Buccaneers have a brief week to determine it out. They head house to host the Baltimore Ravens (4-3) on “Thursday Evening Soccer.”
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