Tampa Tommy

Now that has a ring to it, right?

("Bite me hahd," Boston Sully replies.)

Still: Tampa Tommy. (Tip of the hat to the Pat McAfee Show for that.) It flows. It alliterates like a boss. It rolls off the tongue like a marble on, well, marble.

Look, don't mind me. I'm just cogitating here. Just focusing the future, on the far side of our National Outbreak -- which, with every passing day, feels more and more like we're all trapped in the early chapters of a Stephen King novel.

("Hey! Leave me out of this," Mr. King replies.)

Anyway ... I'm looking at next February. I'm looking at Super Bowl LV. and the possibility that Tampa Tommy Brady has led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to it.

I know. It seems far-fetched, sort of. The Buccaneers, after all, were a pedestrian 7-9 last season. They had the fourth-worst scoring defense in the league. A 42-going-on-43-year-old Tom Brady is going to come in and fix all that?

Well ... maybe.

Consider: While the Buccaneers were 7-9, six of their nine losses were by a touchdown or less. And, statistically, they had the best run defense in the NFL. And the other day, without warning, the Rams released three-time All-Pro running back Todd Gurley, who's still only 25 and likely still has some juice left in him ...

You see where I'm going here.

What if Gurley, intrigued by playing with Brady, signs with the Bucs? And what if Antonio Brown finally gets his life together and decides he, too, might like to play with Brady again after briefly doing so in New England?

Brown, after all, grew up in Miami. Returning to his home state might appeal. And if anyone can keep him in line, it would be Brady.

To be sure, that's a lot of ifs. But imagine Brady throwing to A.B. and utilizing Gurley as both a running back and pass-catcher out of the backfield.

In 2017 and 2018, remember, Gurley caught 123 passes for a combined 1,368 yards and 10 touchdowns. And he caught 31 more for 207 yards and two scores last season. Think even AARP Brady couldn't do something with that?

I'm not sayin', mind you. I'm just sayin'.