1. Tom Brady starting in the Super Bowl at age 43 is incredible, but making it more impressive is the fact that the offense he’s running is a decade behind the times. It’s been primarily a play-making defense that has gotten the Bucs to this point, and the receiving corps is good enough to make a handful of plays every week. (For instance, remember in the NFC title game, when their biggest play was a 52-yarder Chris Godwin pulled down. The play design didn’t work, the play-call wasn’t good, and it resulted in Brady essentially throwing a Hail Mary… that worked.)
Slogging through an offense that provides him few answers—Tampa's great offensive games came against bottom-feeder defenses like Carolina, Atlanta (twice) and Detroit—while lacking the ability to create the time and space necessary to make second-reaction plays? This has to have been the biggest challenge of his career, and regardless of how they got here, it's ending in another Super Bowl appearance.
