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Task of continuing Tom Brady's run falls on Bucs' Byron Leftwich. Success here can open head coaching shots.

In the NFL, winning generally begets opportunity — especially for offensive coaches.

As such, after a disappointing 7-9 season that saw turnovers cripple a team that finished third in total offense, no one needed to tell Tampa Bay head coach Bruce Arians the importance of adding quarterback Tom Brady to the mix this March.

“We were all on pins and needles waiting,” Arians recently told Yahoo Sports. “We never, ever thought Tom Brady would ever leave New England, and then as it was going back and forth [you say], ‘Hey, this, this is real.