Tom Brady, considered the best NFL player, will play his first preseason game with the tampa bay buccaneers east saturday before the Indianapolis Colts, then that he was absent from his team’s practices for 11 days for personal reasons.
“All the players who are healthy will play; Tom is good at everything. His conditioning is very good, ”explained the coach of the Buccaneers, Todd Bowles, in the press conference this Thursday prior to the game against the Colts.
The ‘quarterback’ left the training last August 11 and returned to activity last Monday.
Bowles claimed that the absence of Tom Brady was something programmed to settle the speculations about a new retirement of the seven times NFL champion.
Tom Brady He announced his retirement last February after 23 seasons, a decision that he changed in March to play one more season.
“Tom received that permission; we had it spoken before starting the preseason. We set that time because we wanted to build team cohesion during two weeks of practice knowing that he would not be able to play the first two games of preseason,” Bowles said..
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The ‘coach’ stressed that the 15 times selected to the Pro Bowl will have no problems to be in coordination with their offensive line and receivers when they face the Colts on Saturday in the final game of the preseason.
“He is very familiar with the offense, so it is normal for him to come back and for us to go back to work to close our preseason”, confided the coach.
The need to have Tom Brady in the field is because Tampa Bay lost by an injury for 2022 to his center owner, Ryan Jensen, as well as his left guard Aaron Stinnie.
The 45-year-old quarterback will have to work with his new center, the rookie Robert Hainsey, and Luke Goedeke as left side guard.
Sin Tom Brady, Tampa Bay lost their first warm-up game against the Miami Dolphins por 26-24 with Blaine Gabbert, backup quarterback, and Kyle Trask, third quarterback, alternates on offense.
In week two of preseason the Bucs fell against the Tennessee Titans 13-3, again with Gabbert and Trask as quarterbacks.
After the last preparation duel that they will hold this Saturday against the Indianapolis Colts, the Buccaneers will debut in the 2022 campaign on September 11 against the Dallas Cowboys.
