Bruce Arians advanced to a 2021 conference championship game.
Bill Belichick, no.
Arians, who now has Belichick’s former quarterback on the team, is taking a victory lap. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach fired a less-veiled shot at his New England Patriots teammate on Monday, letting the world know that he thinks he is doing a better job with Tom Brady.
‘I allow him to train’
Arians made his point in an interview with Peter King of NBC, in a discussion that praised Brady’s leadership qualities.
“Perfect leader,” Arians told King. “It’s been going on all year. I gained the air of confidence that permeates our team every day.
“I allow him to be himself. Like, New England didn’t allow him to train. I allow him to train. I just sit sometimes and watch. “
So yes. Much has been said about who would win the Brady-Belichick split after the Super Bowl winning quarterback six times fled New England to Tampa Bay. If you believe in such a count, then Brady is winning by a wide margin, sitting at two wins from the seventh championship in a season when Belichick missed the playoffs without him.
Brady is not talking about this. Arians seems happy to carry the torch along with a side of looking at me. And more power for him. These deep rides are rare in the NFL – unless you are Belichick, of course. But Aryans can also make the most of it. And if that means extra chirping from your singing, then so be it.
Arians gives Chase Young a random hit too
Monday wasn’t even the first random shot of the week fired by the Tampa Bay coach. After his Bucs defeated the New Orleans Saints in Sunday’s divisional round game, he attacked Chase Young, the phenomenon of the pass-rookie race of Washington.
Speaking about the safety of Bucs rookie Antoine Winfield Jr. after the victory, Arians argued that he, and not Young, deserves to win the honors of Defensive Newbie of the Year. He shot at Young’s statistics line for good measure.
“Seven and a half bags is nothing compared to what he did,” Arians said of Young’s bag count.
Perhaps Young angered the Aryans with his respectful comings and goings with Brady around Tampa’s win over Washington in the playoff. Or maybe Arians, who is rarely shy, is just feeling it at the precipice of the NFC championship game.
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