{"id":82932,"date":"2020-03-17T18:46:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=82932"},"modified":"2020-03-17T18:46:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:46:35","slug":"tom-brady-signing-with-tampa-bay-buccaneers-per-schefter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/03\/17\/tom-brady-signing-with-tampa-bay-buccaneers-per-schefter\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady Signing With Tampa Bay Buccaneers, per Schefter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in his career,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/2020\/02\/15\/tom-brady-perfect-tampa-bay-buccaneers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tom Brady<\/strong><\/a> will have a new home in 2020. While it\u2019s not officially official, ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter and NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport both say that Tampa Bay should land the all-time great quarterback. Brady announced on Tuesday that he <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/2020\/03\/17\/tom-brady-is-not-coming-back-to-new-england-patriots\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wouldn&#8217;t return<\/a> to the Patriots, and now it&#8217;s official.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tampa is the expected landing spot for Tom Brady barring anything unforeseen, sources tell me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffDarlington?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JeffDarlington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s no signing date or announcement officially set up, but Brady is expected to be a Buccaneer.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1240045304235339777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Tom Brady, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Agree to Terms<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Brady is coming off arguably the worst season of his storied career. Starting in all 16 games, Brady completed 60.8% of his passes for 4,057 yards, 24 touchdowns, and eight interceptions. This was the first season he didn\u2019t earn a Pro Bowl nomination since his injury-shortened 2008 campaign. However, it\u2019s worth noting that Brady also had arguably the worst supporting cast of his career. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/E\/EdelJu00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julian Edelman<\/a><\/strong> played through a vast assortment of injuries, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GordJo02.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Gordon<\/a><\/strong> didn\u2019t pan out, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/2019\/12\/13\/new-england-patriots-rookie-nkeal-harry-spark\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>N\u2019Keal Harry<\/strong><\/a> started the year on injured reserve, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/S\/SanuMo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mohamed Sanu<\/a><\/strong> suffered a serious ankle injury shortly after arriving in New England.<\/p>\n<p>Brady, of course, entered the NFL as a sixth-round pick in the 2000 NFL Draft. After spending his rookie year as a fourth-string quarterback, Brady earned the backup role heading into 2001. Brady earned the starting job after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BledDr00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drew Bledsoe<\/a><\/strong> suffered a lung injury, and he never looked back. Throughout the remainder of the season, Brady completed 63.9% of his passes for 2,843 yards, 18 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions. He saved his best work for the postseason when he led a last-second game-winning drive to take down the St. Louis Rams and the Greatest Show on Turf.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Brady has transformed from surprise sensation into the greatest quarterback in history. Throughout his 20-year career, the quarterback has accumulated 74,571 passing yards, 541 touchdowns, and 179 interceptions while completing 63.8% of his passes. He\u2019s earned three MVPs, three First-Team All-Pro selections, four Super Bowl MVPs, and countless other records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six-time Super Bowl champion and three-time NFL MVP Tom Brady is officially the newest member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":80780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5,36],"tags":[61,38,40,1608,246,308,331],"class_list":["post-82932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buccaneers","category-patriots","category-nfl-news","tag-football","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-free-agency","tag-nfl-news","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tom-brady"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}