Nfl: Brady, the nightmare continues: third consecutive knockout, his Bucs in black crisis

His nightmare is real: he no longer wins. Tom Brady falls into quarterback limbo with more defeats than wins this season and, above all, sees no way out on the horizon. The film of which he aspired to be the main protagonist, a last season on the threshold of 46 years as a winner, possibly to be crowned with the Super Bowl trophy, is turning into a hellish circle of knockout seasoned by brutal blows that now suffers almost every match.

Yes, because his Bucs no longer protect him. Or rather, his defensive line, a fundamental barrier to the incursions of the opposing defenders in search of the qb, collapses practically at every drive. He doesn’t hold up. He can’t do it. The result, ruinous for him and for Tampa, is to end up in the lands with a swarm of brawny and fierce linebackers above celebrating the sack against the player defined by most as the Goat of the NFL. Not a usual image for the NFL camps.

It also happened in the early Thursday where the linebackers of the Ravens celebrated and the Baltimore team of racing qb, aka Lamar Jackson, rejoiced for the external success. Brady has been tackled three times and avoided closing for the second time with zero touchdown passes only at the end of the match by throwing a td pass with 49 seconds on the clock, points that have not prevented the defeat.

In the sideline Tom seemed clearly nervous and it could not be otherwise. After the match, he limited himself to saying the most banal but also the right thing in the world: “We simply didn’t play well enough to win.”

Everyone agrees. Even coach Todd Bowles: “As long as you don’t play continuously for four quarters it will still be dark. That doesn’t mean we can’t get out of it, we have a lot of work to do, everyone: coaches and players.”

While the US press talks about Tom’s crisis practically every day with emphasis, not letting his readers miss all the details of the upcoming divorce with model Gizele Bundchen, he still thinks he can save the season and give himself a Hollywood movie ending. But he knows that it won’t be easy at all.

Life, in the end, is truly the same for everyone in its ups and downs: there is a man too old for competitive sport who does not want to give up on the passing of time and while his personal and family life collapses, he also collapses. his winning myth. The last challenge of the most famous number 12 in the world is to be able to change this ending.