Bowles denies Brady given preferential treatment

TAMPA, Fla. -- Tampa Bay Buccaneers manager Todd Bowles said Monday that backmost Tom Brady missing the team's walk-through to be New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft's wedding successful New York had nary interaction connected the Bucs' 20-18 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers connected Sunday.

He besides said helium doesn't judge Brady is receiving preferential attraction by being capable to be the Friday wedding -- which caused him to miss the team's Saturday walk-through -- oregon having play days disconnected oregon taking an 11-day interruption during grooming campy to thin to idiosyncratic issues.

"He works arsenic hard arsenic anybody," Bowles said. "Special attraction -- determination person been a fewer guys that person missed meetings and immoderate practices for immoderate peculiar happening -- that conscionable doesn't get publicized due to the fact that they're not him. It conscionable benignant of comes with the territory. You don't interest astir it excessively much."

Brady met the squad astatine its edifice successful Pittsburgh, wherever helium attended his accustomed pregame meetings, and helium did not instrumentality a play disconnected time the past 2 weeks.

Bowles said helium doesn't judge giving Brady clip disconnected to be a societal relation oregon thin to a idiosyncratic substance during campy has impacted his different teammates, who look to him arsenic their person and mightiness deliberation it's OK to slack disconnected oregon not enactment distant the aforesaid level of preparation.

When asked if Brady is arsenic "locked in" arsenic he's been successful the past, Bowles said, "Yes," adding that much players miss walk-throughs and meetings than radical realize.

But the Bucs' and Brady's struggles done six games person been startling for an discourtesy that averaged implicit 30.33 points per crippled done the archetypal six weeks of the play past year. In 2022, they're averaging 19.0 points a game.

Brady's Total QBR of 52.1 is his lowest since ESPN implemented the metric successful 2006. His 8 touchdown passes are his lowest since 2016, erstwhile helium saw enactment successful lone 2 games, and anterior to that, helium had 8 touchdowns successful 2011.

Brady's reddish portion completion percent is down from 62.2% this clip past twelvemonth to 56.7%. His reddish portion touchdowns are down from 11 past play and 12 successful 2020 -- erstwhile helium was playing successful a brand-new discourtesy -- to 7 this year.

Brady has been dealing with an wounded to his close ringing digit suffered successful Week 2 against the New Orleans Saints and a enarthrosis wounded since taking a hard deed successful Week 4 against the Kansas City Chiefs. Bowles said helium doesn't judge those are affecting him. Brady was past connected the Bucs' wounded study starring into the Bucs' Week 5 crippled against the Atlanta Falcons.

"As acold arsenic I know, he's wholly healthy," Bowles said. "He's wholly healthy."

When asked if there's thing health-wise that's affecting the accuracy of his throwing, Bowles said, "No."