Tom Brady Says Interceptions ‘Can’t Happen’ As Quarterback Struggles

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady said the kind interceptions he threw against the Rams on Monday night ‘can’t happen’.

Tampa trailed by a field goal with two minutes left when Tom Brady failed to find tight end Cam Brate. It was his second interception of the game and the Buccaneers lost 27 – 42, leading to questions about Brady’s confidence.

“Just a bad read,” Tom Brady said. 

“Cam was running up a seam, and at the last second I saw the safety coming over and just popped it over Cam’s head. Just a bad read, a bad throw, decision — everything. Can’t happen.”

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With Brady leaving the New England dynasty he helped build after 20 years, he was always going to be scrutinized.

Head coach Bruce Arians denied that the evergreen quarterback was struggling for confidence in his new surroundings.

“We have Tom calling a lot of his own [plays], or picking his own on the sidelines from the game plan,” Arians said Tuesday. 

“I don’t think it’s a confidence problem whatsoever. It’s not lack of trust — it’s lack of continuity within the offense, of the whole picture.”

A particular issue for Brady this season is the deep ball. Through the first 7 weeks, he completed 43% of passes of over 20 yards. Since, he was completed only 1-of-19 (5.3%). Against Los Angeles he went 0 – 6 on deep ball attempts. 

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“We’ve got the guys open. We’ve just missed ’em,” Arians said. “There are times when coverage dictates you go to that guy. I think we can do a better job of utilizing the deep ball in our game plan. … But when they’re there, we need to hit ’em. We can’t have ’em going off our fingertips and we can’t overthrow ’em.

“Other than the deep ball, I think he’s getting confused a few times with coverage that might be causing some inaccurate balls, but I don’t see it at all in practice. We’re not missing the deep ball in practice, that’s for sure, so it’s just a matter of, on Sundays, hitting ’em.”