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Getty Images For years, NFL teams have treated quarterbacks like employees, even when expecting quarterbacks to behave like quasi-members of management. Tom Brady‘s instant success with the Buccaneers should cause teams with truly great quarterbacks to seriously reconsider that approach...

Getty Images When outside linebacker Shaq Barrett and wide receiver Antonio Brown met with reporters after the Buccaneers won Super Bowl LV on Sunday, both impending free agents expressed a desire to remain with the team in 2021. Linebacker Lavonte David, wide receiver Chris Godwin, running...

Getty Images Buccaneers linebacker Shaq Barrett is now a Super Bowl champion. He’s also a pending free agent. Barrett led the league with 19.5 sacks in 2019. While he had only 8.0 during the 2020 regular season, he looked like a sack champion in Sunday’s 31-9 win over Kansas City. He was...

Getty Images Tom Brady won MVP honors, but he wasn’t the MVP. Bucs defensive coordinator Todd Bowles was the real MVP for a game plan that held a Patrick Mahomes offense to nine points and without a touchdown. It was the fewest points ever for a Mahomes offense, with 13 the previous low...

Getty Images Patrick Mahomes said early last week his toe was close to 100 percent. He was fibbing. A report earlier Sunday indicated the Chiefs quarterback is expected to undergo offseason surgery on the toe. Mahomes wouldn’t blame the toe for the Chiefs scoring the fewest points they ever...

Getty Images Rob Gronkowski came out of retirement to join Tom Brady in Tampa Bay. Now he’s earned a fourth Super Bowl ring for his efforts. Gronkowski is scheduled to become a free agent in March. Asked whether he’ll return in 2021, Gronkowski didn’t firmly commit to playing. But after...

Getty Images In a Week 12 game against the Bucs, Tyreek Hill had more than 200 yards in the first quarter. The Chiefs receiver finished with 269 and three touchdowns. At the end of a 75-yard touchdown in that game, Hill taunted rookie safety Antoine Winfield Jr. with his signature peace sign...

Getty Images The Chiefs’ banged-up offensive line struggled on its first drive of Super Bowl LV. Tampa Bay’s pressure repeatedly got to Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who had a nice 11-yard scramble to pick up a first down on third-and-7 but otherwise wasn’t able to do a lot. The Chiefs...

Getty Images The Buccaneers picked up their initial first down of the game, but that’s all they did on their second possession. After going three-and-out on their first drive, the Bucs got the ball back at the 20-yard line after Kansas City’s punt went into the end zone. Ronald Jones ran for...

Getty Images The wait for the first points of Super Bowl LV has come to an end. Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker provided those points with a 49-yard field goal with just over five minutes to go in the first quarter. After picking up one first down and punting on their first offensive possession...

Getty Images The Chiefs aren’t doing what they did the last time they played in Tampa. In Week 12, the Chiefs led the Buccaneers after one quarter, 17-0. The Chiefs were into their third drive when the first quarter of Super Bowl LV ended. Kansas City trailed, 7-3. On the first play of the...

Getty Images Everything was going right for the Buccaneers on their latest offensive drive. Until they got to the 1-yard line. A Chiefs goal-line stand ended with Ronald Jones getting stopped for no gain on fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line, and the score remains 7-3. The Chiefs also got a...

Getty Images Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes said during the week that his injured toe is close to 100 percent healed, but that may have been a bit of an overstatement. Mahomes is likely to have offseason surgery to repair the toe injury, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. The...

Getty Images Buccaneers safety Jordan Whitehead is set to play in Super Bowl LV despite a shoulder injury that knocked him out of the NFC Championship Game. Whitehead got in a full practice Friday after being limited earlier in the week and did not receive an injury designation for Sunday’s...

Getty Images Most who pick games, whether for fun or potential profit, lean toward Kansas City in Super Bowl LV. At least three people believe in the Buccaneers. And they’ve put up at least $1 million in money where their mouths are. Via David Purdum of ESPN.com, someone placed a $1 million...

Getty Images The NFL stands only hours away from checking the 269th box on a 269-box grid, completing the full 2020 season despite the pandemic. It has happened in large part because the NFL ditched its original plan to test players, coaches, and essential staff three times per week and instead...

USA TODAY Sports In pre-pandemic times, the Chiefs would have been in Tampa for the last week to practice, fulfill media obligations, and otherwise prepare for the Super Bowl. This year brought big changes to Super Bowl week, including the Chiefs remaining in Kansas City and traveling to the...

Getty Images After Major League Baseball removed Dodgers third basement Justin Turner from the final game of the World Series due to a positive COVID-19 test, the NFL acknowledged that it was “unlikely, but possible” that a similar event could transpire in the Super Bowl. The remains the case...

Getty Images Three players were listed as questionable for Super Bowl LV and all of them are expected to be on the field in Tampa on Sunday. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown and tight end Cameron Brate are expected to join Chiefs wide receiver in...

Getty Images John Lynch received a phone call each of the past seven years after Selection Saturday. Fourteen of 15 Pro Football Hall of Fame finalists from both 2014 and 2015 have busts in Canton already. Yet, Lynch kept getting overlooked. As it turned out, Lynch’s induction into the Hall...