Brady has 'zero' regrets on return despite start

MUNICH -- Despite being 4-5 and for the archetypal clip sitting beneath .500 9 weeks into the regular season, Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady said Friday helium has "zero" regrets astir rejoining the Bucs aft his 40-day status this spring.

"Zero, no. Definitely not," Brady said. "I returned due to the fact that I felt similar I wanted to vie and I spoke to the squad astir it and they were excited to person maine back. I don't truly regret those types of things -- I deliberation erstwhile I perpetrate to it, I mean it and I bash my champion and effort to springiness everything I tin to this peculiar opportunity."

Brady, on with a stout defence that saw the instrumentality of respective cardinal pieces, orchestrated an affectional come-from-behind triumph implicit the Los Angeles Rams past week with the accidental to get to .500 with a triumph implicit the Seattle Seahawks connected Sunday. That benignant of predicament would doom the Bucs successful immoderate different part successful the NFL.

But the NFC South was weakened considerably with the Carolina Panthers inactive searching for a semipermanent solution astatine the backmost presumption aft Cam Newton, the status of Drew Brees successful New Orleans and the extremity of Matt Ryan's tenure with the Atlanta Falcons, who conscionable slipped retired of archetypal spot with a 25-15 nonaccomplishment to the Panthers. The part has besides seen respective head-coaching changes.

"I deliberation the frustrating portion is we conscionable haven't played to the mode we're susceptible of playing -- that's for a fig of antithetic reasons," Brady said. "This is simply a precise important crippled for america -- we person a bye week aft this. It gives you a accidental to benignant of measure wherever you're astatine and I'd overmuch alternatively measure being 5-5 than being 4-6. We've got to conscionable triumph this crippled and it'll instrumentality attraction of that."

The Bucs' 18 points per crippled this play are the fewest by a Brady-led discourtesy done 9 games successful his career. The fewest for a Brady squad done the archetypal 10 games of the regular play was 19.6 successful 2003. The Bucs would request to people 35 points against the Seahawks connected Sunday to amended that mark.

Brady expressed interest connected his podcast earlier this week implicit a deficiency of effort, thing helium elaborated connected Thursday.

"What tin we control? We tin surely power our attitude, our effort. I deliberation everything has been beneath the enactment this twelvemonth -- we're 4-5 ... I don't deliberation there's immoderate crushed to beryllium blessed astir thing we've done," Brady said. "Obviously, we're not playing to our standards -- we're not determination from an effort standpoint, execution standpoint, affectional standpoint. We've got to fig it retired -- this is simply a bully spot to bash it."

The anticipation is that the Bucs tin spell into the bye week and deed the reset fastener -- analyzing what has and hasn't worked for them. Those person been peculiarly productive for Brady passim his career. He's 15-5 coming disconnected bye weeks. International games person been peculiarly benignant to him too. He's 3-0 successful games played extracurricular the United States.