The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a Super Bowl with Tom Brady and most fans believed their window closed when No. 12 exited stage right. However, the team not only improved in record last season but are teasing an even brighter future this year.

The previously hopeless Broncos beat the Bucs 26-7 on Sunday to throw a wrench into the whole team-on-the-rise narrative that had swept the NFL after Tampa Bay opened the season with victories against Washington and Detroit.

Earlier this month, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield said that former QB Tom Brady had created a "high-strung environment" in Tampa Bay — and Brady did not take the comment lightly. Mayfield,

I thought stressful was not having Super Bowl rings,” he said. “There was a mindset of a champion that I took to work every day."

Tom Brady didn’t hold back in responding to Baker Mayfield’s recent comments that Brady created a “stressful environment” during the 2022 season.