After his team's latest loss Sunday, Tom Brady downplayed the talk that he wasn't seeing eye to eye with his head coach Bruce Arians.
Maybe. But that doesn't mean the pair are a good fit.
The oil-and-water dynamic that may be existing was examined by ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky, who put a heaping of blame on Arians for the way the Buccaneers' head man is using Brady.
"Absolutely not," said Orlovsky when asked if he thought Arians was correctly using his new quarterback. "The Buccaneers offensively are the walking definition of insanity, doing the same thing over, and over, and over again and expecting results.
"Now, this week you have no plan for pressure? If there is no way to communicate at the line of scrimmage what is our plan for pressure. How are we going to communicate against it and how are going to execute with it? And the lack of play-action pass. The lack of play-action is something I’ve talked about for six weeks with this offense. Tom Brady, by every measure, is the second-ranked play-action passer in the NFL. It keeps him clean. It helps his offensive line use some protection. It creates some of the chunk passes. They ran it five times yesterday. Five. So last week he ran motion six times. Yesterday he runs play-action pass five times and he goes 4-for-5, 83 yards and a touchdown. Patrick Mahomes ran play-action pass 17 times. Right now, Bruce Arians is wasting Tom Brady. He got served on a silver platter the greatest quarterback to ever play and all you had to do was use him the right way. He’s completely failing Tom and I’ve got fear it’s going to bury this football team this season."
While Brady has the second-most passing yards in the NFL, he also is just three interceptions shy of his career-high, having totaled 11 picks. His quarterback rating sits at 95.1, which would be his second-worst since 2014.
Tampa Bay currently sits at 7-5, having lost three straight home games.
