By Noah Trombley
On Sunday, January 24th, 2021, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers led by Tom Brady went into Lambeau Field up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and defeated the Packers 31 to 26 in a wild NFC Championship game. This win propelled Brady to his 10th Super Bowl and the Bucs to their first since 2003. We also saw a definitive statement made by the former Patriots and now Bucs’ future QB hall. Brady has now officially ended the Greatest of all Time debate regarding the Quarterback position in NFL history, and here’s why. For so long, critics of Brady had looked for any reason they could to cut into his legacy and to undermine his accomplishments, and for years there was always one reason they could point to his coach.
For 20 years, Brady and Bill Belichick ruled over the AFC and the entire NFL as one of the league’s most dynamic QB coach duos as they won multiple AFC and Super Bowl titles throughout their hall of fame careers.For many critics, Belichick was the only reason Brady was that good. They called him a glorified system quarterback who only worked because Belichick knew what to do with Brady and what he was comfortable running.
Well, that all changed last year when Brady moved down south off the Atlantic Coast to sunny Florida to play with the Bucs. No offense made here to Bruce Arians, but he is no Belichick, and this was the first time he ever heads coached a hall of fame caliber QB. Brady was coming into a brand new team, a new offense complete with all-new weapons that the former Patriot had never played with before, and a new coach with who he had never worked before.
With all these new things around him, what did Brady do? He just kept on winning, winning, and winning. Brady propelled a former 7 and 9 Bucs team into an 11 and 5 powerhouse in the NFC and transformed this former lazy, sometimes high powered into yards and touchdown gaining machine that very few teams could stop during the regular season. Brady then led this team through the playoffs, including a thrilling wild-card game against a very formidable Washington Football.
Then defeated Drew Brees in New Orleans (even after New Orleans smoked the Bucs twice during the regular season), led into the NFC title game, and earned another Super Bowl trip. Brady showed that he doesn’t need a great system or a great coach to be a great QB because, simply put, he is the greatest QB ever to lace up the cleats, and there’s no denying it anymore.
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