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Tampa-Ball: How The Buccaneers Built A Roster of Rejects And Misfits And Won A Super Bowl 

John Nekrasov
Tampa-Ball: How The Buccaneers Built A Roster of Rejects And Misfits And Won A Super Bowl 
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When Tom Brady announced in March of 2020 that he was leaving the Patriots and moving to Tampa to try to win another Super Bowl, few people really believed he could do it. The Buccaneers had assembled a decent roster, but Brady was taking over a 7-9 team that had finished in the bottom half of the NFC South for three years running. The Buccaneers taking an aging quarterback who had just killed off his own team’s playoff run with a pick-six seemed like a punt doomed for failure. 

A year later, it turned out the Buccaneers knew exactly what they were doing.

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