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Getty Images Adrian Peterson has done a lot in his NFL career, but one thing he hasn’t done is play in a Super Bowl. He’d like to sign with a team that he thinks will be back in the Super Bowl next year. That’s why Peterson, who becomes a free agent in March after playing on a one-year...

Getty Images In Tom Brady‘s final seasons with the Patriots, there was talk about the lackluster receiving groups he had to work with. There was no such talk during his first season with the Buccaneers. Tampa amassed a lot of weapons for him to work with at receiver and reaped the rewards of...

Getty Images The confetti has fallen. The dust has settled. The boats are floating. Still, the Super Bowl isn’t official until all awards have been issued. Tuesday’s PFT PM handed out five categories of them. MDS, Charean Williams, and I picked a winner for each of these: Call of the game...

Getty Images Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians has just had the greatest season of his career, but six months ago there was no guarantee he would coach at all. Arians told Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times that his wife and kids urged him to consider opting out of the 2020 season because they...

Getty Images The Buccaneers won’t have a traditional parade to celebrate their Super Bowl LV title, but they will have one befitting their moniker. According to multiple reports, Tampa will host a boat parade on the Hillsborough River on Wednesday. Details, including the time that the flotilla...

Getty Images LeBron James tweeted several times after the Buccaneers’ 31-9 victory over the Chiefs that gave Tom Brady his seventh Super Bowl ring. “IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW!! GOAT TALK,” was the last of James’ tweets. Brady is 43 and just completed his 21st NFL season. James, 36, is in his 18th...

Getty Images Waiver claims that went through during the postseason were officially processed on Monday and that meant the Jaguars added a player to their roster. The league’s daily transaction report brought word that the team has claimed linebacker Chapelle Russell. Russell was waived by the...

Getty Images When the Patriots came back to win Super Bowl LI over the Falcons, head coach Bill Belichick said one of the best parts of that 2016 team was that it took no days off. He even started chanting it. Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians doesn’t seem to live by that mantra. In an...

Getty Images In 2020, the Chiefs erased a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit to win the Super Bowl. In 2021, the Chiefs didn’t even score 10 total points in the Super Bowl. The difference in interest in the two games showed in the viewership numbers. After a delay in the release of Nielsen...

Getty Images Tampa Bay coach Bruce Arians says the inability to share their success with their fans is one of the Buccaneers’ few disappointments after winning Super Bowl LV. Arians told Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times that he would love to give Tampa a victory parade after a great sports...

Getty Images Antonio Brown scored a touchdown for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl and managed to accomplish the feat while running the wrong route. According to Buccaneers quarterbacks coach Clyde Christensen, Brown did the exact opposite of what he was supposed to do on the play...

Getty Images When Jaydon Mickens first got to the Jacksonville Jaguars as a member of their practice squad three years ago, the former undrafted wide receiver found himself sleeping in his car in the parking lot at Everbank Field. Three years later, he’s got a Super Bowl ring with the Tampa...

Getty Images The dust has settled on Tom Brady‘s first-year compensation in Tampa Bay. And Brady ended up doing pretty well. Winning the Super Bowl unlocked one final $500,000 payment for Brady, pushing his total compensation for 2020 to $28.625 million. Qualifying for the playoffs and...

Getty Images Everyone in the NFL saw the Bucs hold the Chiefs to three field goals in Super Bowl LV and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes thinks that’s going to influence their future opponents. Mahomes said on Monday that the Bucs “did a good job of kind of taking away our easy stuff” and...

Getty Images Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice has sometimes been called the best player in NFL history, but Rice says he’ll hand that status to Tom Brady. Rice said today on 95.7 The Game that he believes he played football during a tougher time than Brady, but he’ll still defer to those...

Getty Images Sunday night’s game proved yet again that a regular-season appetizer to a Super Bowl matchup means absolutely nothing. With the Chiefs losing to the Buccaneers after beating Tampa Bay in Week 12, the team that won round one is now 6-8 in the Super Bowl. (When the AFC team wins in...

Getty Images As soon as Sunday’s game ended, the Patriots’ official twitter account congratulated “the greatest of all time.” That, of course, was meant for Tom Brady. The Patriots followed that with a warning: “And Gronk, be careful with that trophy…” Rob Gronkowski dented the Patriots’ most...

Getty Images Plenty of Patriots fans still love to watch Tom Brady. Via John Ourand of Sports Business Daily, the TV rating in Boston actually surpassed the TV rating in Tampa. According to Ourand, Boston generated a rating of 57.6, which means that 57.6 percent of all TVs in the market were...

Getty Images Some like to pooh-pooh the potency of potential motivation for pro football players. Time and again, it’s proven to be a very real dynamic. And it doesn’t have to be real. As Michael Jordan proved, embellished and/or fabricated motivation works, too. For the Buccaneers, the...

Getty Images On Thursday night, Chiefs outside linebacker coach Britt Reid crashed his truck into a pair of cars that had been pulled over to the side of the road. A five-year-old girl suffered serious injuries. A GoFundMe account has been established to raise money for the ongoing care of...