Bucs Coach Bruce Arians Throws Tom Brady Under Bus, Says Mistakes Were His Fault

The alleged slowly-growing rift between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick was likely a large player into Brady making the decision to move on from New England, but the QB might be missing his former coach’s style of taking full blame right about now.

Tom Brady started off his career with a new team for the first time in nearly two decades with a beautiful drive capped off with a signature Brady punch in touchdown at the goal line.

It all went down hill from there. Brady ended up throwing two interceptions, one of which was a Pick-6.

Following the game, instead of accepting blame (whether true or untrue) as most football coaches do, Bruce Arians threw Brady under the bus, specifically saying both interceptions where his fault. One interception came on a play drawn up by Arians that MAYBE Patrick Mahomes could have completed, not a 43-year-old QB.

Bruce Arians‘ assessment of Tom Brady: both INTs were his fault.

First one was a miscommunication. Mike Evans read the coverage right, Brady overthrew it. Second one was a bad decision.

“I wouldn’t say he was out of sync at all, until we started screwing it up.” #GoBucs #Bucs pic.twitter.com/EwRsbwBNTm

— Grace Remington (@GraceRemiWTSP) September 14, 2020

Bruce Arians put both interceptions on Brady. Said on that first one, Mike Evans read the coverage right but Brady did not. #Buccaneers

— Michael Giardi (@MikeGiardi) September 14, 2020

Arians then went even further and said Brady played much differently in the teams Week 1 game than we did in practice.

#Bucs coach Bruce Arians on Tom Brady: "He looked like Tom Brady in practice all the time so it’s kind of unusual to see that in a ballgame because they didn’t do things that we didn’t get ready for. Everything they did we thought we were ready for.''

— Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) September 14, 2020