My mind is still buzzing around the quarterbacks from the last draft. This time they got stuck with Kyle Trask, the apprentice behind Tom Brady with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
While quarterbacks that are brought off the board early in round one are regularly rolled out the red carpet, the sporting decision-makers build a team around the new hopeful and try to give him the best possible conditions, career or non-career at Late Round Quarterbacks is from much more “random” aspects dependent. More than the top talents, they have to be suddenly in the right place at the right time and who may seize the opportunity they have. Who wants to deny that the Jacksonville Jaguars, for example, will do everything in the next few years to finally create a successful era with Trevor Lawrence. If the Jaguars step on the spot in the coming season, Lawrence statistics show themselves in the middle of the league, they will step on the gas again in Florida in 2022 so that the “talent of the century” can still take off with the team.
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They all have one goal in common in Tampa
Every rep counts ???? pic.twitter.com/4pN4J3RIEC
— Tampa Bay Buccaneers (@Buccaneers) May 28, 2021
The Buccaneers had previously been the first NFL champion ever to keep all starters from the previous Super Bowl or to sign them again. Licht and Arians must have succeeded in an outstanding way in getting the players to a table and talking to them about their situation and that of the team. In Tampa there was not a single one this year who wanted to gold the triumph in the previous Super Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs. Nobody spoke of a change request, nobody of a holdout to get an even better contract elsewhere. All have one insight and one goal in common: As long as Tom Brady does not finish his career, Tampa will be playing for the title.
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Perfect situation for Trask and the Buccaneers
Back to the quarterback situation on the pirate ship: Tom Brady knows, only he determines when his career ends. In Tampa, they have aligned everything so that the most successful football player in history can add another triumph to his vita. Trask sees Brady, unlike Jimmy Garoppolo once with the New England Patriots, not as a competitor, even if the 23-year-old should really follow him. The situation for Trask couldn’t be better. He can learn from Brady every day, and it is even somewhat similar in its basic features to TB12. Trask isn’t a great athlete, but he comes across his ball placement, release, anticipation, and leadership mentality. And Trask has the usual four-year contract for a rookie – unlikely Brady will still be out of football retirement by then. At some point in the second half of his contract, Trask will likely get his chance, then he just has to take it.
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