After unretiring, NFL GOAT Tom Brady is ready to lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the pursuit of their third Super Bowl title. He is chasing his eigth. 

The Bucs will play their preseason games against the Miami Dolphins, Tennessee Titans and Indianapolis Colts in August before kicking off the regular season against the Dallas Cowboys on September 11. Brady, in his third season with the team, on Thursday said that the continuity within the organization should allow them to make another deep postseason run.

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In the last season, the 44-year-old led Tampa to their first NFC South title since 2007. In his first year, Tom Brady had guided them to the Lombardi Trophy. They had managed to overcome a big deficit against the 2022 Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams in last season’s Divisional Round. 

Brady has set some expectations for Tampa. He said that this season is their opportunity to ‘play our best football’. 

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“The season’s already started. You’re competing every day out there. You’re either getting better or you’re getting worse. You’re not going out there to break a sweat, you’re going out there to get things done. I think this should be in my opinion our best opportunity to play our best football because we’ve been together the longest, and why shouldn’t it be? We know each other, we know the scheme, we’ve been through a lot of challenging circumstances in games and now we’ve got to go out there and execute it as well as we possibly can,” the Tampa quarterback said. 

Todd Bowles has taken over the head coach’s job from Bruce Arians. The team has managed to keep their core and have added Russell Gage and defensive lineman Akiem Hicks. However, Rob Gronkowski remains a concern. 

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The tight end is returning from retirement. Brady said that he’s hopeful to have Gronk back, but if not, they’ll figure out how to fill his role.

“I think it’s just obviously totally up to him. We’d all love to play with him, but he’s got to make the best decision for himself, and he knows that. Anyone who cares about him knows that he’s doing what’s right for him, which is trying to figure it out. We don’t have training camp for about six weeks, so whatever he’s got to do to figure it out. We’ll be hopeful if he does, and if he doesn’t, then we still gotta go out there and figure out what to do,” Tom Brady added.