TAMPA, Fla. — A day after the most disconcerting loss of the season, Bucs coach Todd Bowles spent part of Monday afternoon’s postmortem downplaying the incident many national outlets were bent on overplaying.
Tom Brady’s attendance at Patriot owner Robert Kraft’s wedding in New York City on Friday night, resulting in his absence from Saturday morning’s team meetings and walk-throughs.
Naturally, Brady’s brief getaway — combined with the Bucs’ unsightly 20-18 loss Sunday to the injury-besieged Steelers — prompted rampant (if not redundant) dissection of the incident. Questions posted on social media and national sports-talk shows ranged from whether Brady gets special treatment to whether his attendance at the wedding on a game weekend put off teammates.
