Tampa Bay Tuesday: Bucs end up a down short in 20-19 loss to Bears

October 11, 2020

What a difference three days makes, huh? This past Tuesday in our weekly Tampa Bay Tuesday piece I closed by saying it appeared this Buccaneers team was starting to gel and become a formidable opponent. Well, with an ugly 20-19 loss to the Chicago Bears on Thursday Night Football, I could not have been more wrong. The game ended with Tom Brady giving us his best Brian Hoyer impression, forgetting…

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Tampa Bay Tuesday: Brady and the Bucs win shootout over Chargers, move to 3-1

October 6, 2020

Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images Tom Brady looked as good as good as ever on Sunday. Brady was forced into a shootout with rookie Justin Herbert and prevailed like an old veteran should, dragging the Buccaneers to a 38-31 win over the Los Angeles Chargers. Brady and the Bucs trailed by 17-points at one point, but, he thew for 369 yards and five touchdowns (and a pick 6) in the…

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Tompa Bay Tuesday: Brady and the Bucs move to 2-1 with win in Denver

September 29, 2020

Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports It still doesn’t look right, but Tom Brady and the Buccaneers are 2-1. Brady went in to what is usually a house of horrors for him and had a good day to help get the Bucs a 28-10 win over the Broncos. We all know how it’s usually looked when he went to Denver in his career, so this was probably a nice little mental hurdle…

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Tompa Bay Tuesday: Brady, Bucs get first win of the year but it wasn’t pretty

September 22, 2020

Image courtesy of USATI Tampa Bay — First things first. We’re sticking with “Tompa Bay Tuesday” for this piece for the remainder of the year. It’s lame. We know. Oh well. Now, it wasn’t pretty, but Tom Brady and the Bucs got their first win of the year on Sunday, beating Carolina 31-17. Brady was 23-of-35 for just 217 yards, a touchdown and an interception. Mike Evans and Brady finally appeared…

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Tampa Tuesday’s: Brady’s Bucs buried in the Superdome

September 15, 2020

Photo by Butch Dill/AP By Kevin J. Stone/@kstone06 If you still miss Tom Brady, you’ve come to the right place. Throughout this season we’ll be keeping tabs on what Brady and the Bucs are doing every “TB12 Tampa Tuesday” and if you’ve got a better name please send it our way, it definitely needs work. For those that say ‘he’s not here anymore move on’, he was the greatest athlete…

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Patriots: 2020 Patriots could better off with Newton than they would be with Brady

July 1, 2020

Image courtesy of ESPN.com By Kevin Stone/@kstone06 The 2020 Patriots as constituted are better off with Cam Newton as their quarterback. Now, since most people only see, read and hear what they choose to see, read and hear, let me be PERFECTLY CLEAR about this… Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback of all time. Tom Brady will always be better than Cam Newton. Tom Brady deserves a statue outside Gillette…

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NEFJ Notebook for 6/21/20

June 21, 2020

1. First, Happy Fathers Day to all the dad’s out there. Moms are the glue that keeps a household together. Dads are the foundation. 2. I have to admit, it stung seeing Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski in Buccaneers uniforms. It wasn’t suppose to end this way but thus is life in pro sports. (Photos courtesy of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers) 3. Speaking of the Buccaneers. They have shut down…

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Brady as a Buccaneer: First Look

June 16, 2020

All photos courtesy of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. By Kevin Stone/@kstone06/@newftbj  Is everyone ok? The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tom Brady unveiled “official” photos of him in the uniform for the first time on Tuesday, and social media quickly buzzed. I am in the minority here and think he actually looks kind of normal – in a time where there is none – or at least it doesn’t seem as…

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Tompa Bay: 2020 Buccaneers schedule breakdown

May 8, 2020

By Kevin Stone/@kstone06/@newftbj You didn’t think we were done with Tom Brady talk did you? Not to worry, we’re going to have Tom Brady Tuesday coverage every week here at New England Football Journal to make sure you can still keep up with what the GOAT is doing. Brady will be in primetime plenty this season, bringing Bucs fans the attention for the first time in a long time. For…

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Patriots: Patriots trade Rob Gronkowski and a seventh round pick to the Buccaneers for a 4th round pick

April 21, 2020

In a completely unexpected trade this afternoon, former Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski ended his retirement and was traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to reunite with Tom Brady. Bill Belichick sent Gronkowski and a seventh round pick to Tampa Bay for a fourth round pick. Pick #117 to be exact. The deal was surprising, especially when you consider that Gronkowski was pretty adamant last spring that he was done….

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