Patriots: Bruce Arians fuels Brady-Belichick debate with post-Super Bowl comments

While most Patriots fans found great pleasure in watching Tom Brady win a championship the year after he spurned the team in free agency, Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians has really done everything in his power to make it difficult for them to root for their former quarterback.

We’re not entirely sure what his motivation is, but Arians made himself public enemy number one in the eyes of Patriots Nation last month with his snide comments about the team’s culture and the freedom he gave Brady in terms of coaching up his new teammates, claiming that the 43-year-old signal caller wasn’t allowed to do that in New England.

Those remarks really ruffled some feathers in Foxborough, and Arians took things a step further after the Bucs’ big win by throwing gasoline on the polarizing debate about whether Brady or Belichick was more essential to the Patriots’ dynasty.

It would appear that Bruce Arians is more obsessed with determining a winner in the Brady-Belichick debate than the media.

"“Tom is playing for his teammates right now,” Arians told Sports Illustrated. “He wants those guys to experience what he’s experienced six times. I think personally, too, he’s making a statement. You know? It wasn’t all coach Belichick.”"

There goes Arians trying to stir the pot again. This is simply another case of the 68-year-old head coach trying to speak for Brady, when in actuality, the three-time MVP dismissed the idea that he was trying to show the league that he can win a championship without Belichick’s help.

If anything, Brady left the Patriots because their poor roster construction prevented him from accomplishing anything significant in 2019. Remember how quick the media was to write him off after New England was upset by Tennessee in the first round of the playoffs last year?

All Brady wanted was more help and the Bucs provided him with more than he could imagine in that department. He responded by finishing second in the league in touchdown throws (40), third in both passing yards (4,633) and first downs (233), and ninth in passer rating (102.2).

We mean no disrespect to the Patriots, but Brady was never going to post those sort of numbers had he stuck around for another season.

Again, regardless of what Arians seems to think, Brady’s decision to depart New England had more to do with the fact that the Buccaneers had all the requisite pieces in place for him to step in and be able to compete for a championship in Year 1 more than it did him wanting to make some statement to Belichick and the rest of the league.

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