Tom Brady is retired again, for good this time, he says. The Bucs have lost a lot of free agents, released starters and fired several coaches.

But the chance to be great didn’t walk out of the building with Brady, coach Todd Bowles says.

Speaking to the NFL Network’s Judy Battista at the NFL’s annual meeting Sunday, Bowles discussed the loss of the future Hall of Fame quarterback, Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports.

“When you replace a player of that magnitude, first of all, you don’t replace him. You lose aura. You lose the expectation of being great. That doesn’t mean you can’t be great. You just have to do it more as a team. We did it as a team when he was there, but he was such a great player and a great person that you focus all on that. And now that that is gone, the perception is that everything else is gone, when really it isn’t.

“We have a lot of good players on our team on both sides of the ball. We have some pieces to fill, but we have a lot of good football players on our team. And we just have to understand that and not go with the so-called outside narrative and do what we have to do to win ball games.”

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