Bans Arians/Brady golf summit.

So much for business talk on the golf course.

It seemed Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians and park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking Bucs quarterback Tom Brady were playing a lot of golf together over the bye, writes Ian Rapoport of NFL.com.

But the NFL quashed it.

It isn’t that NFL strongman Roger Goodell is not a golf guy (Rodney Dangerfield’s line in “Caddyshack” — which this Joe has never seen in its entirety — about golf courses rings true.), the NFL wanted to keep NFL personnel away from each other during bye weeks due to The Sickness.

Despite all the public discussion about their relationship, the wondering about whether or not they get along, how the quarterback handles being called out by the coach, Arians and Brady clearly like each other enough to anticipate two or three days of bonding over golf at Tampa’s Old Memorial Golf Club, one of the state’s best. That was the thought, with the two of them scheduling 36 or 54 holes.

Eh. So the two couldn’t make it to the 19th hole because they never got to the first hole thanks to Goodell. Well, what stopped the two from jumping on Brady’s boat and hanging out in the Gulf for a few hours?

Gulf > golf.

Joe applauds Brady and Arians for wanting to talk things over at a country club — if they need to talk things over. That is nothing but a positive sign.

So for the folks who think Arians and Brady don’t get along, this sort of tells Joe it’s a bunch of hogwash.