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“#\u2018Rude awakening\u2019: Who will win the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick divorce?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Name a more compelling on-field subplot to the 2020 NFL season than following what happ<\/a>ens in New England without Tom Brady and what happens in Tampa with Brady.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Because there isn\u2019t anything more fascinating.<\/p>\n

How will Bill Belichick and the Patriots power on while playing without Brady under center for the first time in two decades?<\/p>\n

To what kind of heights can Brady lift a Buccaneers franchise that has spent a lot more time as NFL doormats than it has winning?<\/p>\n

At age 43 and playing in a new system and with a new coach for the first time in his NFL career, can Brady be the same Brady who led the Patriots to six Super Bowl titles?<\/p>\n

Hot-button debates on these questions rage on in New England and Tampa and everywhere else.<\/p>\n

Dan Orlovsky, a former NFL quarterback and current ESPN analyst, is bullish on Brady having immedia<\/a>te success in Tampa and highly skeptical of the Patriots remaining winners without him.<\/p>\n

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Bill Belichick; Tom Brady<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI think New England is in for a rude awakening,\u2019\u2019 Orlovsky told The Post. \u201cThat roster is depleted. Yes, this was a team that was 12-4 last year, but it was 0-4 against the best teams in the AFC, getting drummed.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Now Brady is in Tampa, where he signed as a free agent in the offseason, and former enigmatic Panthers star Cam Newton is the starter in New England.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of other teams in the AFC that have closed the gap,\u2019\u2019 Orlovsky said. \u201cYes, they\u2019ve won for 20 years in a row, but not this way. It\u2019ll be interesting to see if they can pull that off.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Brady\u2019s absence puts Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels squarely in the spotlight \u2014 more than he ever has been before. How well can McDaniels, who has spent most of his career coaching Brady (though, in the end, Brady was coaching him as much as he coached Brady), tailor a new offense around Newton, who has spent the better part of the past couple of seasons with injury issues?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important person in the organization this year is Josh McDaniels,\u2019\u2019 Orlovsky said. \u201cThe most important person to Cam Newton\u2019s success is not a player. It is McDaniels.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

What are the Patriots missing most without Brady?<\/p>\n

\u201cFlawless and reliable execution,\u2019\u2019 Orlovsky said. \u201cYou knew that Tom was going to execute, that the ball was going to go where it was supposed to go when it was supposed to go there. You will miss the reliability of that. That\u2019s going to be felt.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Orlovsky sounded as certain as an analyst can be about how Brady is going to thrive in Tampa.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think he\u2019s going to have an MVP-caliber season,\u2019\u2019 Orlovsky said. \u201cThere are some people that think he\u2019s done, and I\u2019m just not that person. I think that he will have a monster season. I always say this: \u2018Be careful telling greatness when it\u2019s done. Greatness tells you when it\u2019s done.\u2019 \u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Bill Parcells, the Hall of Fame head coach who led the Patriots to a Super Bowl and won two of them with Belichick as his defensive coordinator with the Giants, has his doubts about Brady finding instant success in Tampa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re talking about a player who\u2019s 43 years old \u2026 quite frankly, my expectations are not as high as a lot of people\u2019s,\u2019\u2019 Parcells told The Post. \u201cThere\u2019s not been many guys that age to go do that successfully.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Parcells is a lot more confident in Belichick being able to continue his success in New England without Brady than Brady turning Tampa Bay into a Super Bowl contender overnight.<\/p>\n

In a sense, Parcells was endorsing system over talent.<\/p>\n

Brady in Tampa?<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me tell you something about Tampa \u2014 and I say this respectfully \u2014 they do have some firepower, but everybody\u2019s talking about how now Brady is the answer with all this firepower,\u2019\u2019 Parcells said. \u201cWell, nobody\u2019s talking about the fact that they gave up 47 sacks last year. If they give up 47 sacks, [Brady] won\u2019t make it \u2019til the 10th game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tom Brady and Bill Belichick embrace after winning the 2018 AFC Championship Game<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cYou have to be able to protect the quarterback. If you can\u2019t do that, they won\u2019t be any better. [Brady] will get them out of some [trouble]. He\u2019ll throw the ball away to make them a little bit better, but in the long run it won\u2019t work, because at some point in time he\u2019s got to be able to sit back and throw.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

It sounds like Parcells is betting on Belichick over Brady.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, obviously I want Bill to do well,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cWe worked together a long time. Now, Brady I don\u2019t know. He\u2019s been a remarkable player. But he\u2019s going to the losingest franchise in the history of the NFL. Everybody said, \u2018Well, they won seven last year.\u2019 Well, we\u2019ll see.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Orlovsky downplayed the 47 sacks, blaming many of them on quarterback Jameis Winston.<\/p>\n

\u201cTom gets rid of the ball faster and quicker than anybody ever,\u2019\u2019 Orlovsky said. \u201cThat offensive line was better than people talked about, but Jameis was just so bad last year. Jameis couldn\u2019t get the ball out quickly, he held onto it, so that really hurt the perception of that offensive line.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Is Orlovsky concerned about Brady quickly adapting to a new system, new coach and new environment?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a real thing \u2026 for most people,\u2019\u2019 Orlovsky said. \u201cI just don\u2019t think it is for Tom.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

What signs does he see that tell him that Brady isn\u2019t done?<\/p>\n

\u201cI see his arm is still plenty strong, he still moves in the pocket pretty well, he places the ball where he needs to place it \u2026 all the physical tools that are needed, he still has,\u2019\u2019 Orlovsky said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMentally I feel like I have all the ability,\u201d Brady said. \u201cI\u2019ve seen every defense. There\u2019s no play I haven\u2019t run. There\u2019s no defense I haven\u2019t seen. It\u2019s just physically, are you still able to execute your job? And I\u2019m very fortunate to still be able to do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is, the clock is ticking on everybody. We\u2019re going to have to work as hard as we can, and not waste any minutes trying to get used to one another. Embrace the challenge, and see it as an opportunity to see what we can become.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brady now gets to throw to receivers Mike Evans, who had 67 catches for 1,157 yards and eight touchdowns in 2019 and Chris Godwin, who had 86 catches for 1,333 yard and nine TDs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, the knowledge I\u2019ve had with my experience playing quarterback will allow me to transition quickly,\u201d Brady said. \u201cI know for a lot of us, things in life can change and you\u2019ve got to be able to adapt and evolve. With each of those changes comes different opportunities to learn and grow. That\u2019s where I\u2019m at.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Belichick, in his predictable low-tone drone, in May downplayed life without Brady, saying matter-of-factly: \u201cWell, we\u2019ve played at other times without Tom.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

He was referring to 2008, when Brady was lost for the season with a knee injury in the opener and New England went 11-5 with Matt Cassel at quarterback. Cassel finished the year with 3,693 yards, 21 TDs and 11 interceptions.<\/p>\n

That helped Cassel earn a large contract from the Chiefs the following offseason, but he never played that well again, proving to be a free-agent bust and finishing his career as a nondescript journeyman. Cassel\u2019s career fizzle-out only added merit to Belichick\u2019s brilliance, having been able to win with him while Brady was gone for the season.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been some chatter about Belichick\u2019s motivation to show he can win without Brady and Brady eager to prove he can win away from Belichick.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Belichick] might bring up a couple articles \u2026 everybody saying it\u2019s over \u2014 \u2018Brady this, Brady that,\u2019 \u2019\u2019 former Patriots safety and current NBC analyst Rodney Harrison said recently. \u201cOf course, he\u2019ll say something about that [to his current players]. But at the end of the day, whether he makes the point or not, he knows the team will be motivated to prove they can win without Tom.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Harrison, who played alongside Brady from 2003-08 and won two Super Bowls as a Patriot, knows exactly what the vibe is like in Foxborough right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just talk, not with the Patriots,\u2019\u2019 Harrison said. \u201cIt\u2019s a chip you carry in the weight room, you carry in the film room, in the dining room, you carry at home watching extra film, it\u2019s a chip that motivates you.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

One former Patriots player who played for Belichick, linebacker Matt Chatham, finds himself \u201cuncomfortable\u2019\u2019 with all the talk about whether either can win without the other.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like that question if sort of reserved for them for some reason,\u2019\u2019 Chatham told The Post. \u201cWe don\u2019t have that conversation about Bill Walsh and Joe Montana. I don\u2019t understand why it comes up that way for [Belichick and Brady] or Mike Shanahan and John Elway.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never did it with Elway, we never did it with Steve Young. Jerry Rice, like, \u2018Yeah, Jerry was great but he played alongside two Hall of Fame quarterbacks.\u2019 Or Thurman Thomas in the K-Gun, did being in that system elevate Jim Kelly?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe literally set aside separate rules for Bill and Tom and I think that\u2019s crazy. I don\u2019t like it. It makes me uncomfortable every time we dive into it \u2014 unless we\u2019re going to go review everyone. We only do this with Tom and Bill and that sort of drives me nuts.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Through it all, Brady, in the few times he has spoken publicly this offseason, has remained philosophical about his ballyhooed move.<\/p>\n

As a Northern California native whose idol was Montana, the former 49ers great, Brady vividly recalls the day Montana left San Francisco in 1992 after 14 seasons and multiple Super Bowl titles to continue his career in Kansas City.<\/p>\n

Now he\u2019s living out a copy of the path his idol took.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think life continues to change for all of us,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cHaving the opportunity for me to continue to play football and lead a team is something that I love doing. I\u2019ve loved playing the sport since I was a kid, since I was throwing footballs in the parking lot at Candlestick. And I still love doing that today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Can he lead a Tampa Bay franchise that hasn\u2019t reached the postseason since 2007 and hasn\u2019t won a playoff game since the Super Bowl in 2002 to the same heights to which he carried the Patriots?<\/p>\n

Will his absence spell doom for the Patriots?<\/p>\n

Name better storylines to the 2020 NFL season.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Because they don\u2019t exist.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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