It’s been almost two months since the last match between these two teams and the Bucs did not remain stagnant. Just ask the captain in charge of everything.
“I think we have certainly come a long way,” said quarterback Tom Brady. “I think we will continue to improve. The more we are together, the more we talk about football, the more we try to be on the same page, the better it gets. It is a complex game – there are many moving parts [and] there is a lot of coordination involved between several different positions. I think the quarterback-receiver relationship is very important. The closer I got to Mike [Evans], Chris [Godwin], Antonio [Brown], ‘Scooter’ (Scotty Miller), Tyler [Johnson], ‘Mick’ (Jaydon Mickens) – it gets better. The tight final position, I’ve been close to Gronk (Rob Gronkowski) for a long time – I know exactly what he’s thinking [and] how it looks like. Cam [Brate] he’s a very easy guy to get to know too. We will keep trying to make improvements. We have a big test this weekend [against] one of the great NFL teams [who has] consistently one of the great teams for a long time. We’re going to have to go and play a great game of football. “