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GM Jason Licht says Brady and Arians are ‘a perfect marriage’

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will begin the Tom Brady era this fall, and GM Jason Licht believes the Brady-Arians marriage is a perfect match.

Tom Brady will be playing for a new team and head coach for the first time in 20 years when he takes the field for the Buccaneers this season.

The six-time Super Bowl champion shocked many by leaving the Patriots for a franchise that hasn’t been to the playoffs since 2007. And, at age 42, many question whether Brady will be able to turn the Bucs into a winner during the two years of his contract.

Bucs general manager Jason Licht appeared on SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt recently and spoke about whether there is a sense of urgency to win now for the Bucs and if that could put pressure on a young team with little playoff experience.

Per Licht:

“I don’t have a lot of concerns on that right now. We have a head coach [Bruce Arians] that, to be quite frank, isn’t gonna be here for the next 15, 20 years coaching the Buccaneers. So I think it was actually a perfect marriage: You’ve got two guys that have got something to prove; they want to win, they want to win now; they’ve got the same mindset.”

Tampa Bay is going all-in on Brady these next two years, and rightfully so. When you have a future Hall of Fame quarterback, even one past 40, you maximize the opportunity while you have it. It seems the Bucs are doing that for 2020.

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Jason Licht says the Bucs’ 2020 draft class has ‘that confidence that we look for’

Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht spoke about the team’s latest draft picks and what he sees in them.

The 2020 NFL draft is over and the Buccaneers came away with one of the class’ top-ranked tackles and safeties in both Iowa’s Tristan Wirfs (No. 13) and Minnesota’s Antoine Winfield Jr. (No. 45).

Here’s the full list of the team’s 2020 draft picks:

Round 1 (No. 13): OT Tristan Wirfs, Iowa

Round 2 (No. 45): S Antoine Winfield Jr., Minnesota

Round 3 (No. 76): RB Ke’Shawn Vaughn, Vanderbilt

Round 5 (No. 161): WR Tyler Johnson, Minnesota

Round 6 (No. 194): DT Khalil Davis, Nebraska 

Round 7 (No.241): OLB Chapelle Russell, Temple

Round 7 (No. 245): RB Raymond Calais, Louisiana

(To see a full gallery of this year’s Bucs class, click here.)

Tampa Bay likes what they have in these rookies, and GM Jason Licht said they all have “that confidence that we look for.” Hear what else the general manager had to say about this new class below.

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