Can the Bucs be even better in 2021?
Bruce Arians, Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski, and Antonio Brown said they are all planning to return to Tampa Bay next season. So senior NFL Writers Terez Paylor and Charles Robinson discuss if the Buccaneers could be even better next season. Hear the full conversation on the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen.
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CHARLES ROBINSON: I thought it was really interesting that as soon as this ended-- because like in my mind, I'm like, hmm, I wonder if this is a walk-off. Like, Brady immediately-- no, no, no. No, we're coming back.
Arians actually said, hell no, I'm coming back to do this again. Gronk has already said he wants to come back. Antonio Brown says he wants to play with Tom. Like, all the key pieces all want to come back.
Is this Bucks team-- look, Ndamukong Suh's going to be a year older. There's a lot of one-year deals. Some money is going to come into this because they had a lot of guys on one-year deals who I think actually could probably get some looks now. Can they be a better team? Like, was November, December, and January indicative of a run to 2021 in which maybe they are a better team than they were.
TEREZ PAYLOR: They're bringing everybody back too. Just like the Chiefs did this year. Chiefs went 14 and 2 this year. It was better than the year before. Like, if they found a way to bring back most of this team, they bring back the staff, they bring back the players-- like, Charles, they can do this again as long as they can bring back most people.
By the way, I wouldn't be shocked if we saw this game again. Buffalo's going to have to get better to beat Kansas City. And it is incredibly difficult to go to three Super Bowls in a row, but the Patriots did it from 2016 to 2018. So, again, there's a lot that the Chiefs have to navigate, but I wouldn't mind seeing this again if the Chiefs have a better offensive line.
CHARLES ROBINSON: And Tampa Bay-- you're like, OK, what does the NFC South look like? It's in flux. Like, up in New Orleans--
TEREZ PAYLOR: The Saints are not going to be there.
CHARLES ROBINSON: New Orleans we don't know.
TEREZ PAYLOR: No.
CHARLES ROBINSON: I mean, like the Carolina Panthers are looking for a new--
TEREZ PAYLOR: Carolina's trying to get a quarterback.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Yeah, they're trying to get a new quarterback. You got Atlanta that's figuring that out with Arthur Smith. So I mean, divisionally, they are in great shape.
And then even amongst the NFC elites, OK. Seattle, now, they fired their offensive coordinator. So now they're going to try and reconfigure maybe a little bit of what they do on offense. And then the Rams swapped out the quarterback. I Hope Matt Stafford is it. I hope that's what solves all this.
TEREZ PAYLOR: How about the Packers?
CHARLES ROBINSON: The Packers, to me, I feel like-- this is how it should be, I don't know if it is how it will be-- a huge side winner in this game. If I'm Aaron Rodgers, I am like texting clips of this game to Brian Gutenkunst, to Matt LaFleur, to everybody in administration, to Mark Murphy, to every Packers shareholder and just saying, can we do this? Can I get this? Can we just do this?
Just once, can you just sell out for me? Can you please completely sell out for me and what I think we need to do? Let me run the offense completely. Let me do all the-- just give me the team for two years and let let me see if we can do what Tom just did in Tampa Bay. I think Aaron Rodgers is a little bit of a side winner here.
TEREZ PAYLOR: Aaron Rodgers is going to show that tape to Brian Gutenkunst and do the Cuba Gooding Jr. "Show me the money." Because like, that needs to happen for sure.
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