The coronavirus pandemic seems to have delayed Tom Brady's renaissance. He was mediocre in his first game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, throwing two interceptions and looking generally out-of-synch in a 34-23 loss to the New Orleans Saints.

Brady will be OK, though. He, Bruce Arians and the teams' pass-catchers will almost certainly figure something out. It's just that we're probably not going to see Brady immediately tearing up defenses as if they were old pictures of him and Bill Belichick.

There originally was the sense that -- with all that firepower in Tampa -- Brady would have a season comparable...