TAMPA, Fla. — The window had closed. That seemed pretty indisputable.
Tom Brady had left and Ali Marpet had followed. Antonio Brown had taken his jester act on the road, and the league’s salary cap police were hovering around the front gate.
With so many free agents on the roster and so few solutions in sight, it seemed as if Tampa Bay’s run as an NFL powerhouse was going to end almost as quickly as it began.
