The Tampa Bay Bucs team really needed this bonding trip to happen between their QB and head coach, but the NFL had other ideas.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and his head coach Bruce Arians reportedly planned a multi-day bonding golf outing during Week 13, the team’s bye week. Sounded like great time would’ve been had for both of them to have some personal time, but they never got a chance to play a single hole.
According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the NFL stepped in to put a stop to it.
Via ESPN:
“Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and coach Bruce Arians were planning to play golf together during the team’s bye week, perhaps on multiple occasions, until the NFL notified the team that it would be in violation of the league’s protocols, league sources told ESPN.
Brady and Arians therefore did not get to play golf together as they had planned — at a time when speculation about their relationship has persisted. Despite the ongoing narrative that Brady and Arians haven’t gotten along, multiple sources within the organization have insisted the opposite.”
The NFL’s intensive COVID-19 protocols forbids teams or players from gathering with each other outside their team facility.
The Buccaneers are scheduled to play the Vikings on Sunday.
