The Tampa Bay Buccaneers signed veteran free agent quarterback Tom Brady this offseason. Brady is considered the greatest quarterback of all-time by a pretty large group of people.

However, there's also a very large group of people that believe Brady's best days are behind him. Not only that, but that the drop off has been pretty steep.

Obviously though, not everyone believes that. And you can count Tampa Bay quarterback coach Clyde Christensen among the non-believers of the drop off.

According to Jacob Camenker of NBCSports.com, Christensen believes Brady has had zero drop off.

“There is nothing on the film that shows he is dropping off accuracy wise, arm strength wise,” Clyde Christensen said on Thursday’s episode of The Pat McAfee Show, via NBC Sports Boston.

“I watched every throw of his for four years and couldn’t see any drop off whatsoever. Anyone who says that he can’t (throw the ball) just is talking. They haven’t watched the film. He makes every throw.”

Christensen, who also has coached Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck, would know. And the QB coach suggested the Patriots’ offensive woes this past year, or at least, the reason Brady didn’t air it out as often, had more to do with the targets than the passer.

“Now, some years they had fast guys and they threw that ball up the field,” Christensen said. “Some years they didn’t. This year they didn’t and they threw more checkdowns. Any time he got his opportunity, that ball went up and usually extremely successfully.

“I think that narrative is dead off base and if I thought that way we probably wouldn’t have gone after him. He is playing at an extremely high level.”

Christensen definitely has some good points. Brady still put up good numbers and was still making a majority of his throws. However, the New England Patriots simply didn't have the same talent on offense last year.

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This led to Brady's numbers taking a dip. He still kept the turnovers to a minimum though, and threw for over 4,000 yards. So it's hard to really call that much of a “drop off”.

Christensen obviously has a reason to stick up for Brady. He brought good points to the argument when defending his new quarterback though. That's definitely hard to argue with.