Tom Brady Washed? NFL Scouts, Coaches Aren't Counting on It

It rarely works bringing the dream team together, and that's what was trumpeted.""New pieces, no preseason; I really am not jumping to any conclusions," an AFC personnel executive said.Maybe some are insiders who have been on the wrong side of Brady heroics too many times to believe he's really done. But when Bleacher Report reached out to scouts and coaches around the league to collect reactions on Brady's performance, most of them urged fans to please hold the RIP Brady takes for the time being.Still, Sunday's lackluster Bucs debut does continue a bad pattern for Brady."If he played at a really high level last year and then he opened up the season like this, you would push it away," former Giants executive and current NFL Network analyst Marc Ross said. In his weekly availability, he praised the Saints defense, talked about the difficulty adjusting to the new terminology and the challenge of not having a preseason to figure out situational football and learn what they are good at and bad at as an offense."Your body just does things a certain way that it's done for a long time, without you having to think," Brady said. I don't know about that."The NFC South scout who thinks the Bucs won't live up to expectations this season predicts the offense will improve enough to win games but not enough to become a top offense in the league."First games are always weird," the evaluator said.