Bruce Arians: Tom Brady is insulted like everyone else

The Buccaneers, of course, haven’t had an offseason with their new quarterback, although Tom Brady has been leading his own practices. Offense goes against defense for the first time in Friday practice, giving Brady and the Bucs a month to figure it all out.

Coach Bruce Arians isn’t worried about Brady’s lack of time in the attack and with his (mostly) new teammates.

“Yeah, that’s probably the least of my worries right now,” Arians said Thursday, via ESPN’s Jenna Laine. “He’s where he needs to be. We need to have more direct representatives. Blocking, tackle. This game is a blocking and tackling game. Fourteen days to block and attack. Is it sufficient? And I hate to attack us. We don’t want to stand in the way, but we have to prepare to play a game. I think that’s the biggest drawback – not being in the pads and not playing fast.

Ariens’ first look at his new quarterback and his attack on something other than the air will give the coach a sense of where the Bucs are. They put towels on Monday.

“I’m just playing fast,” Arians said. “He knows what he’s doing. But now the speed will pick up for the first time for him. See how he deals with information he thinks he knows and we’ll find out what he knows and what he doesn’t know at a much faster pace, and we haven’t gone against our defense and we’re very complicated defensively, so it will be great fun for him.

The Arians don’t treat the six-time Super Bowl champion any differently from any other player. He’s “just another guy,” Arians said last week.

“He gets insulted like everyone else,” Arians said Thursday. “He did a little yesterday because he likes to throw the ball in the walk-throughs and we don’t throw the ball in the walk-throughs. But not very bad.