Tom Brady’s Number Decided
March 31st, 2020
Did he give in?
The news the world has been waiting for!
No, it’s not a vaccine to squash the corona. Or a cure for cancer.
Indeed! It’s what number new Bucs quarterback Tom Brady will wear.
Brady, who wore No. 10 when playing at Michigan, and who has worn No. 12 throughout his NFL career with New England, will wear…
[drumroll]
No. 12.
The previous owner of No. 12, wide receiver Chris Godwin, has given it up, reports Scott Smith of Buccaneers.com. Per Smith, Brady did not have to cough up cash like DeSean Jackson had to fr Adam Humphries so he could have No. 11.
And Godwin will now wear No. 14.
Back to work!
March 31st, 2020 at 2:17 pm
I’d give the number up to if I wanted the ball thrown my way. Kind of a no brainer!
March 31st, 2020 at 2:25 pm
For the record and for those of you that care that there are other members of the team, Godwin will now wear 14.
March 31st, 2020 at 2:32 pm
Now that the number 12 mystery is solved, perhaps it’s time to reveal what the new uniforms will look like! Bucs fans need something to keep them going as we wait for the draft!
March 31st, 2020 at 2:33 pm
I like it. Brady 12, Evans 13, Godwin 14.
March 31st, 2020 at 2:38 pm
He did the right thing not asking for money. Everybody knows Brady took less then he could have demanded to come here. Plus now Chris gets to showcase himself on Prime Time!!! And you know all the fantasy geeks will be glued on Chris.
March 31st, 2020 at 2:42 pm
SK nailed it. Plus when we are in the red zone (aka money making time) he can just look to Tb12 and say “you look in that number 12.”
March 31st, 2020 at 2:44 pm
makes sense anyway, the #12 throwing to #13 and #14
March 31st, 2020 at 2:44 pm
No one cares ndog, this is Brady’s team now. Time to sit back and watch how the position should be played
Elita Vita, I’m ready to see the new uniforms too, at least tell us the damn date of the reveal lol
March 31st, 2020 at 2:45 pm
Chris Is a pros pro man.
Love this guy
Hey Sb u owe me a jersey
Get me Godwins
March 31st, 2020 at 2:46 pm
He’ll get a bonus for making the Probowl, and barring injury he will. We’ll have 5-6 make it this year.
March 31st, 2020 at 2:47 pm
Unless they are playing in the Superbowl.
March 31st, 2020 at 2:47 pm
Godwin is a good dude, all the way around.
March 31st, 2020 at 2:48 pm
Brady’s new sports centers are going to be called TB12. Godwin could have held out and asked for a buyout.
March 31st, 2020 at 2:49 pm
Elita Vita, I agree!
I’m not ordering my jerseys until I can get them in the new Uniforms…and I will be getting multiple jerseys.
March 31st, 2020 at 2:49 pm
I’m wondering out loud if Scotty Miller will be the permanent slot receiver.
Brady’s new little receiver version of Julian Edelman?
March 31st, 2020 at 2:53 pm
How smart is Chris Godwin…….take care of your new QB……great PR….
And…..he has a very big restructure of his contract coming…..the jersey number move will bode well with Licht & the Bucs……
March 31st, 2020 at 2:56 pm
Garbage of a post and of a writer. ! Who do you think you are to tell ppl if they did right or wrong ?
Go back to New York.
JimmyJack Says:
March 31st, 2020 at 2:38 pm
He did the right thing not asking for money. Everybody knows Brady took less then he could have demanded to come here. Plus now Chris gets to showcase himself on Prime Time!!! And you know all the fantasy geeks will be glued on Chris.
March 31st, 2020 at 2:58 pm
This will never be Brady’s team, just like he is not our QB and nothing will ever change that. He put in to much time in New England to be anything other than their QB.
Winning with Brady will be like bragging about living in your parents mansion. It’s nice and all but you know you didn’t earn it and it feels sooooooo much better to show off your mansion, you know that you actually earned the hard way and didn’t have to rely on someone else to come in and do it for you.
March 31st, 2020 at 2:59 pm
JimmyJack: he got all we could afford to give him, no other team offered him as much …he’s a 42 year old man and by taking CG12’s number shows he isn’t team first, he is all about TB12!!
March 31st, 2020 at 3:02 pm
Some folks in here just say stupid stuff or “try to correct others “ thinking they’re right all the time.
Like jimmy two face jack.
Get off my dick.
March 31st, 2020 at 3:02 pm
Ndog, I get that you are a JW fan…….I get it….but you must be carefull when you cross the line to stupidity zone……You´ll never come back…..and seems you are close to…….Be safe!
March 31st, 2020 at 3:03 pm
chris just became tom gravy’s favorite receiver before they even got started…
smart move by chris…
a lot more was at stake here tho…
ownership wants brady to wear number 12 as well…
they need to get a jump on things with producing those number 12 jerseys asap…
godwin is keeping everyone happy, and in turn they will make him a happy young man moving forward…
i’m pretty sure there has been some sort of compensation from either tom or the powers that be that is unpublicized…
there is a lot of money to be made with brady wearing number 12 as a buc – and they jumped on it fast
March 31st, 2020 at 3:07 pm
I like #14.
March 31st, 2020 at 3:07 pm
#AllAboardTheGravyTrain #TB12hasArrived
March 31st, 2020 at 3:09 pm
i’m happy for brady, and i think it was good of godwin, and if anyone does not believe that this is bradys team now, i have to say, lay the pipe down, and get off the bud, u have become delusional
March 31st, 2020 at 3:13 pm
Duh……why is media so damn dramatic about nonsense. Media are the ones who come up with stupid news like Edelman and AB to Bucs just to stir things up
March 31st, 2020 at 3:14 pm
Joe are they giving anyone a particular date on new jersey’s. They said April and tomorrow is April first. You would think they would release them early as possible with this continuous bombing economy.
March 31st, 2020 at 3:25 pm
Will Joe promise to shut down the Jaboohoo Crying Game that a certain group of posters insist on playing with every story after some appropriately dignified grieving period? Preferably before Jameis gets another job… not sure we can last that long.
March 31st, 2020 at 3:27 pm
Nice! Thank you Godwin!!!! Team player right there!!!!
Good things coming your way Chris…you know that already!
Can you imagine
Evans
Godwin
Claypool
Clyde for the checkdown…pfft! Man puhleeze! Just stop it!! LOL
March 31st, 2020 at 3:38 pm
I hope CG14 got TB12 to make a contribution to Team Godwin Foundation.
http://www.teamgodwin.org
And NDog, if you don’t get help here, please get help somewhere
March 31st, 2020 at 3:39 pm
Now, reveal the new uniforms.
March 31st, 2020 at 3:47 pm
Smartest move JW could make is to play baseball..Seriously. If he can swallow his pride.
March 31st, 2020 at 3:49 pm
NDog
So if we lose with TB12, you say “I told you so”
If we win with Brady you say ” it doesn’t count”
Just trying to be clear.
March 31st, 2020 at 3:54 pm
To Godwin.
This is the second time you made me your fan.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:04 pm
First of all jmarkbuc if you truly believe Jameis is done playing football then you can’t be helped.
Secondly I never said it wouldn’t count it just won’t feel the way it should feel and they way it felt back in 2002 and they way it would feel that is somebody else’s QB. And with that there is no right or wrong it’s the way I and I know many many many others feel like as well. So do I hope we win it all, your damn right, but I also know I would’nt be even close to as happy as I would be with our guys, not someone else’s.
There was nothing like watching Mike Alstott, Derrick Brooks, Warren Sapp, Ronde Barber, John Lynch, Shelton Quarles, etc… FINALLY win it all after seeing all the struggle they went through. Even Gruden, Keyshaun, Brad Johnson, Simeon Rice, Michael Pittman, Kerry Jenkins, etc… never won anything before coming here, so that was special.
There is no way on earth anyone that’s a Bucs fan can say they would even come close to feeling that way if Tom Brady won his 7th Superbowl here. There is just no way.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:09 pm
@jmark
Sad to say this will he view of some of the JW fans, if we do win it’ll be because the FO decided to get Brady help or the kicker didn’t shank the last kicks etc. best not to even argue when the other person views himself as always correct…
March 31st, 2020 at 4:09 pm
And the stupidity in posting continues….
No-brainer, never expected anything else! Godwin is the man, regardless of number.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:10 pm
#14#13#BESTANDEMINNFL
March 31st, 2020 at 4:17 pm
NDog
I don’t disagree that what Dungy/McKay built from the ground up was special…what might have been…..
Watching Gruden/Allen tear it down was a crime.
But to say I wouldn’t take winning with TB12 because he’s not Jaboo would be a ridiculous lie. What is on the team now is what it is, and if Tom can win here I don’t have a problem with it.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:20 pm
..and I’m serious about the baseball…but only if he’s actually good.
Think about the story line..made for TV/Media.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:21 pm
Ndog it’s over bro seriously we understand.
But every article u do this.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:30 pm
Again you guys read what you want to read. Where did I said one word about winning without Jameis in the post above? Show me?
March 31st, 2020 at 4:33 pm
Ndog – so you’re saying that it wouldn’t be the same if we won with TB like we did in 2002 season with Brad Johnson. So are you saying that Brad Johnson was a long time Buc before reaching the Superbowl? Look again chief.
You are boring with your constant negativity and your howling about the “great” Jameis Winston – and I went to school in Tallahasee and am an FSU fan.
Support the Bucs or take a hike bro.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:35 pm
love 14.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:39 pm
Good grief NDog you are slipping hard bro. You quite literally just stated that any winning this team does will be in vane because it is not done with Winston.
Wow dude. Just wow. You basically just turned your back on the team now with a statement like that…….You are putting your own opinion above the betterment of the team with a statement like that.
I want to actually question your fandom with a statement like that. But I do understand you are very emotionally attached to Winston. You maybe just need a little time to cope this and are still somewhatentally shattered…….For your sake and for the sake of the fanbase I hope you heal and can get past this. We need more diehards not less…….But of you can’t I wager we’ll be fine……..The influx of bandwagoners we are getting will be sure to breed a few extra diehards to eventually take your place.
All the best to you in you’re time of Winston grieving.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:42 pm
NDog
“Where did I said one word about winning without Jameis in the post above? Show me?”
It’s implied in nearly every one of your posts…not just the one.
Life right now, as well as in the sports world is bad enough.
Let it go.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:43 pm
No brainer and class move by Godwin. Winning a SB with TB will taste just as good as the one we brought home with the former Viking QB. This Bucs team has plenty of talent on both sides of the ball, we just need a QB to manage the game and not give it away. Brad Johnson had six interceptions in 2002.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:45 pm
And nobody is just reading what they want NDog……Perhaps you should reread yourself…….Perhaps you are so mentally shattered about this you don’t even realize we what you are saying? I don’t know bro.
2:58 post second paragraph, 1st sentance. That’s you talking about winning without Winston.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:48 pm
Jimmy jack exactly
March 31st, 2020 at 4:54 pm
It sure is funny watching Npuppy cry over losing J-booboo…
Let it go… it’s over… this is addition by subtraction
March 31st, 2020 at 4:56 pm
JimmyJack show me where I said anything about not winning with Jameis. Show me? Again you people are just proving you can’t read. You get more CLUELESS by the day, as I said nothing about Jameis other than to respond to the idiotic comment about him playing baseball. I said nothing about us not winning with or without him.
In case you can’t figure it out, which clearly you can’t cause you’re simply not bright enough, I’m talking about the journey, the struggle as that is what makes winning fun, not getting a guy who has done it 6 freaking times already, there’s no fun in that. And yes Brad Johnson was a huge piece because he got benched at FSU bounced around the NFL had not won crap before us and WAS PART OF THE STRUGGLE which again is what makes winning special.
You guys are probably part of the instant gratification crowd that doesn’t want to work for anything so I get it, but just know you will never know what winning should really feel like.
March 31st, 2020 at 4:58 pm
NDog
Living in the Glory days is over.
Look Around.
March 31st, 2020 at 5:00 pm
JimmyJack Says:
March 31st, 2020 at 4:45 pm
And nobody is just reading what they want NDog……Perhaps you should reread yourself…….Perhaps you are so mentally shattered about this you don’t even realize we what you are saying? I don’t know bro.
2:58 post second paragraph, 1st sentance. That’s you talking about winning without Winston.
Below is the exact post where does it say the words Jameis or Winston? You are full of Sh!I and lie to boot!
Ndog Says:
March 31st, 2020 at 2:58 pm
This will never be Brady’s team, just like he is not our QB and nothing will ever change that. He put in to much time in New England to be anything other than their QB.
Winning with Brady will be like bragging about living in your parents mansion. It’s nice and all but you know you didn’t earn it and it feels sooooooo much better to show off your mansion, you know that you actually earned the hard way and didn’t have to rely on someone else to come in and do it for you.
March 31st, 2020 at 5:06 pm
As long as all parties agree to the number change without any hard feelings that is great. We simply do not want any negativity surrounding this team and it seems like these two men worked it out….
March 31st, 2020 at 5:06 pm
You know what NDog…..I do enjoy a good argument with you. But this is not one of them. I honestly just feel like your falling off the deep end with this one. I’ve actually never saw a poster meltdown like this. To be honest I am kinda concerned for you.
So I think it’s best right now just to tell you that you are right. I was wrong and you are right. I don’t think I was reading what you wrote properly. Musta just misconstrued something. I went back and re-read the entire thread and you was 100% right bro. Sorry bout that.
March 31st, 2020 at 5:07 pm
“I said nothing about Jameis other than to respond to the idiotic comment about him playing baseball.”
Except you posted it at 2:58
I posted my baseball comment at 3:47
You’ve worked yourself into a tizzy…get a Xanax.
March 31st, 2020 at 5:10 pm
Hahahaha hahahahaha
Oh my
Hahahahahahaha
Npup has lost his mind
Hahahahahaha
March 31st, 2020 at 5:18 pm
Just throwing a little salt into the recent conversation, Jameis isn’t going to lead ANY team to victory next season because NOBODY is going to sign him as their starter. And if continues to hold out for mo money mo money mo money, he isn’t going to be signed AT ALL!
March 31st, 2020 at 5:18 pm
Ndog is an idiot
March 31st, 2020 at 5:30 pm
is there a way to block this trainwreck ndoooooooooooooooog!!!!?????????????
his stupidity offends the he!! out of me.
March 31st, 2020 at 5:30 pm
jmarkbuc Says:
March 31st, 2020 at 5:07 pm
“I said nothing about Jameis other than to respond to the idiotic comment about him playing baseball.”
Except you posted it at 2:58
I posted my baseball comment at 3:47
You’ve worked yourself into a tizzy…get a Xanax
Uh again lying, below is my exact post in response about your baseball comment and it posted at 4:04. You guys literally are so easy to destroy in an argument it’s ridiculous.
Ndog Says:
March 31st, 2020 at 4:04 pm
First of all jmarkbuc if you truly believe Jameis is done playing football then you can’t be helped.
JimmyJack you don’t have to tell me anything because it’s all laid out for anyone to read. You are saying I posted things I didn’t post so you are lying and that is the end of it. Arguments can be fun but not when one of the parties starts lying about the other. There’s no deep end and I’m not losing my mind I just know how I feel and I have basically have little to no excitement for this team right now cause we aren’t a team we are the Tampa Bay Brady’s and if you think guys think LVD or Marpet or Donovan Smith or Mike Evans or Godwin will get any love if we do win the Superbowl your crazy it will be 100% Brady. I had more excitement when our QB was freaking Bruce Gradkowski than I do now and that’s because he was OUR QB not somebody else’s that we are just borrowing.
I’m done!
March 31st, 2020 at 5:33 pm
Lol @jimmy, yeah, the dog is always right….he’s the man, im all about it.
Whatever you say ndog, you’re right, all good man 🙂
March 31st, 2020 at 5:33 pm
Ndog is an idiot
I’m done!
March 31st, 2020 at 5:34 pm
Had your back before, Nsog.
No more.
March 31st, 2020 at 5:44 pm
” if you think guys think LVD or Marpet or Donovan Smith or Mike Evans or Godwin will get any love if we do win the Superbowl your crazy it will be 100% Brady.”
It takes more than one man…but you know that Ndog, being the all seeing, all knowing football expert that you are.
March 31st, 2020 at 5:44 pm
is ndog actually tjmaaxxcon ???
🙂
March 31st, 2020 at 5:45 pm
tjmaxxcon or ndog…
who is most hated ?
March 31st, 2020 at 5:55 pm
Ndog is the winner there… or should we say whiner?
March 31st, 2020 at 5:59 pm
Speaking of T.m.a.x….
Is he good?
Have not heard from in awhile.
These days, you don’t know.
Hope all is well, man.
March 31st, 2020 at 6:05 pm
My question is, after every post winds up being an argument, why would anyone argue with someone you can’t reason with? Someone who is infatuated with a player that’s no longer on the team, all they can talk about is the ex-player and not the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? Let them argue with themself, IMHO.
March 31st, 2020 at 6:06 pm
So according to Ndog, if the Los Angeles Lakers were to win a championship with Lebron James leading their franchise, it won’t count because Lebron was already self-made from his time in Cleveland and Miami.
Lol whatever soothes Ndog’s mind I guess, and I still clearly remember Ndog earlier a month or two ago talking about how Bill Belichick would pick up and sign Winston to become a Patriot and lead New England to more success. Hey, Jaymiss is still on the open market and it sure seems Belichick is NOT interested in Jaymiss.
March 31st, 2020 at 6:08 pm
Yep.Ndog is an idiot
March 31st, 2020 at 6:16 pm
Godwin wearing Vinny’s number…
I don’t like it, 14 is a bad number for a WR. Should have went with something in the 80s.
March 31st, 2020 at 6:21 pm
NDog…..I had already conceeded to you. That was uncalled for.
You won the argument. No need to still worry about it.
March 31st, 2020 at 6:25 pm
Godwin don’t care!
Alpha male players like Godwin couldn’t care less about silly numbers!
This is probably a Glazer thing…for them the Brady hire is about media visibility translating to increased revenue. So they want as much Brady continuity as possible…..winning?….pffft!……sure, whatever floats your boat.
Get ready bucs rubber-neckers…..this might turn out great (for the 1st time in Glazer-brat history), or it could be just another disappointing year of let-downs, implosions and finger-pointing.
Unfortunately Howard has to take the latter because leopards don’t change their spots
March 31st, 2020 at 6:27 pm
Rod Munch……How dare you call 14 Vinny’s number!!! I demand a retraction!!
Once somebody brings more glory to a number it no longer belongs to it’s former owner.
March 31st, 2020 at 6:28 pm
And not just Lebron, but also the Toronto Raptors winning a championship doesn’t count according to Ndog since Kawhi Leonard was already self made from his time in San Antonio Spurs, and the Denver Broncos won a Super Bowl with Peyton Manning at the helm even though he too was self-made from his time in Indianapolis.
Granted in Peyton’s case he was already in decline at that point but Peyton still undoubtedly lifted that Broncos franchise when he arrived in 2012 with consistent double digit winning seasons, first round byes, pro bowl caliber production, and a MVP award in 2013. But hey Ndog says none of that counts because all those guys were self made.
March 31st, 2020 at 7:36 pm
Listen, Brady as final piece will feel different from Gruden as final piece. Gruden was a wunderkind who had no hardware before Bucs whereas Brady has a closet full of shiny trophies. However, the difference doesn’t make it any less special… and, in fact, being associated with Brady for eternity is an upgrade before a single game has even been played.
I’m fine with the Gruden won with Dungy’s team arguments… false as they are. And I’ll be fine with any argument Brady won with the receivers Jameis trained up for him… farcical as that would be. But its just not ok to be sooo negative that you appear to be wishing failure upon the Bucs and their new QB just so you can say “I told you so”. Its a bad look.
Now maybe this 8pm comments upgrade Joe’s doing will enhance the site’s “quality control” capabilities… maybe look at the poster’s IP address instead of just chosen screen name when deciding whether to block? Just a thought.
March 31st, 2020 at 7:49 pm
Great post WestChap…….And it goes to show you how it’s all just opinions…….If the media wants to play Gruden won with Tony’s team that that’s what they’ll do. Their job is to find a narritive. If they say we won because we knew the playbook then let em have at it.
None of that took away from how special that team was. Not for me anyways.
But we all different. Some fans must just live and die with what the media tells them……After all we do hear all the time fans complaining about how the media treats our team.
It’s no skin off my mind. I can have my own opinions without suckling to the media’s teet. But understand many fans can’t…….If the media’s going to tell them Brady is the only reason we won them fans are gonna believe it. Kinda sad but that’s reality.
March 31st, 2020 at 9:10 pm
New uniforms coming April 7!!!
March 31st, 2020 at 11:50 pm
all this teasing with the uniforms is crazy…especially during these times…just show us the goods already…
#DontTeaseMePleaseMe #AllPewterColorRushhhhh
March 31st, 2020 at 11:55 pm
12+13+14= Championship
April 1st, 2020 at 8:52 am
Such goings on, such goings on. I can hardly believe it. NDog = Big Sombreo. There comments are like reading a friggin book. No thanks.
April 1st, 2020 at 3:19 pm
I’m late to the party but Ndog does have a good point about Brady winning a championship here. If he does, it’ll be all about him and not the team, the headlines would be something like ‘Brady takes lowly Bucs to promise land’ and would barley mention other players that been here years before him.