“I don’t have a lot of concerns on that right now,” said Licht, who had two stints with the Patriots and became GM of the Bucs in 2014. “We have a head coach [Bruce Arians] that, to be quite frank, isn’t gonna be here for the next 15, 20 years coaching the Buccaneers. So I think it was actually a perfect marriage: You’ve got two guys that have got something to prove; they want to win, they want to win now; they’ve got the same mindset.”
“Getting Tom here, quite frankly, started with hiring Bruce last year,” Licht said. “I don’t know if we would be in this situation right now without Bruce Arians as our head coach. And they’re kind of living parallel lives right now; they’ve got something to prove, and they want to do it now.”
“He didn’t want to come in here and be the almighty,” Licht said. “He just wants to make sure that his teammates respect him. And he’s got something to prove.”
“He knows where the ball is gonna go, and he just [does] it so fast. I think that’s the thing that Tom is gonna bring to practice,” White said.
“Us as a defense, it’s gonna teach us more how to disguise, because we’re not gonna want him to pick us apart every day in training camp. We’re gonna get better with our disguises. We’re gonna try to confuse him a little. … Going against him will really make us bring our game out to a new level.”
Winning now will be no easy task for Brady and the Bucs, but if anyone can do it, it’s Tom.
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