Tom Brady has an unquenchable thirst for Super Bowl rings which is why he is returning for another season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Again, he's just not out there to play football for the sake of playing football; it's all about winning for the future Hall of Famer, and he certainly would love the mindset of Bucs nose tackle Vita Vea, who admitted that the Buccaneers' early exit in the last NFL playoffs made him hungrier.

Via Myles Simmons of Pro Football Talk:

“I think there is a lot to learn from the last two years,” Vea said in his press conference. “Especially us being a young group — we had a real young group when we won the Super Bowl and I think last year we had some good experience losing in the playoffs, as weird as it sounds. I think it makes you more hungry when that happens. I think there is a lot to learn from that — losing and not being there [after] winning the year before. It’s just taking those little steps to get better every day.”

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Vea is not forgetting the Buccaneers' bitter loss to the Los Angeles Rams in last season's NFC Divisional round. In that game, Brady went 30/54 for 329 passing yards and a touchdown with an interception. Vea had a nice performance himself, as he recorded a sack.

Brady's return to Tampa Bay is already a big shot in the arm of the Buccaneers' Super Bowl chances in the 2022 NFL season, but him being surrounded by players with Vea's attitude is what's really going to power the team to a potential redemption.