Members of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coaching staff have heard the narrative that Tom Brady, or at least the 43-year-old version of Tom Brady, doesn't fit their offense with dynamic receivers in Mike Evans and Chris Godwin making plays downfield.
They just don't believe it.
"People who say that don't know our offense," offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich said in Peter King's Football Morning in America column. "I know what we really do. Who he is, and as smart as he is . . . He's done everything we ask our quarterbacks to do in this offense.