It wouldn’t be surprising to catch Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht pinching himself. He won the Tom Brady sweepstakes this offseason after the quarterback left the New England Patriots and rebuffed the Los Angeles Chargers’ interest. It doesn’t quite feel real yet.
“I’m asking myself the same thing every once in a while. It feels kind of like a dream,” Licht said Monday on ESPN’s Get Up! “It was a great acquisition for us during this time with a lot of things that’s going on in the world with the health crisis. It’s been a nice escape to know that we have Tom Brady.
“It was two weeks ago today that the legal tampering or the negotiation period started when we made the first call to his agent (Donald Yee) and it seems like two months ago now. But when we made the first call at 12 o’clock and he said, ‘You made a good decision to call,’ we knew we might have a good chance of getting him.”
And the winning bid for Brady began.
