Former Bucs coach Bruce Arians says the Buccaneers’ early struggles were because Tom Brady was playing “Bad”

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers did not look good in October but they have since turned it around a little bit. Obviously, with Tom Brady going through a divorce and injuries on the offensive line, Tom did not look like the Tom of old.

Well, Bruce Arians the former Buccaneers coach and senior advisor of the team was pretty critical when talking to Ira Kaufman of Joe Bucs Fan in an interview this week.

Arians said Brady was to blame and not Byron Leftwich.

“I don’t think it was fair to Byron,” Arians said of the criticism, via Joe Bucs Fan. “Nobody is going to say that Brady was playing bad, but he was playing bad. We also had growing pains on a young offensive front and we weren’t running well. There comes a time as a play-caller when you’re losing yards running the ball and you say, ‘Forget this, I’m putting the ball in Tom’s hands.’”

It is very rare to see Tom Brady and bad in an sentence, but I have to agree with Arians. The thing is Tom is now ready to strike with the coals are hot. He has the Buccaneers moving in the right direction and I would not be shocked if they ended up winning their division and making a run in the playoffs with the 45-year old QB.