At 3-3, Bucs Need Leaders To Step Up

The opening six games of the Bucs’ 2022 season have been a disappointment. Of course, as recent as three years ago, a 3-3 record through six weeks would’ve felt promising. But the standard changed when Tom Brady arrived in 2020 and led Tampa Bay to a Lombardi Trophy that season before coming back and taking the team to a franchise-record 13 regular season wins last year. Nowadays, 3-3 won’t cut it. And the Bucs know that.

“We’ve been frustrated. We’ve definitely been frustrated, for sure,” Brady said during his Thursday press conference this week. “We have a lot of great competitors. Again, I don’t think anyone in your job is going to feel great if you’re doing your job and it’s not going well. It’s the same for football players, too.

“For us, when you’re at 3-3, yeah we wish were better, but we haven’t earned it. So we need to do a good job of earning it. That means going out and emphasizing the right things, working on the right things, practicing, gaining confidence and ultimately going out in the game and executing. That’s the reality of what we have to do. Our whole job is to try to go accomplish that. We’re putting a lot of focus on that.”