"If you wanted to coach why did you step down?" - Shannon Sharpe questions Bruce Arians' decision to quit Buccaneers following recent comments

Bruce Arians won his first and only Super Bowl as a head coach two seasons ago with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He continued as head coach for one more season before announcing his retirement.

Arians announced his retirement on March 30 and transitioned into a position in the front office.

There were many questions as to why Bruce Arians stepped down, especially after Tom Brady announced that he was returning for another season with the Buccaneers. Circumstances led some to believe that there was an issue between the two. One of the people who has questioned the relationship between Brady and Arians is Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe.

Shannon Sharpe said on UNDISPUTED that he thinks one of the conditions in getting Brady back was for Arians to step down as head coach.

Sharpe said:

"Skip, I don't care what anybody says. There's more to this than what meets the eye. I think 12 (Brady) came back and this was one of the conditions of him coming back. Somebody had to go somewhere. I'm not saying that you had to leave the state of Florida. You had to leave Tampa, but you had to get the hell up out of the head coaching chair."

Sharpe questions the logic of Arians' statements, saying:

"If you wanted to coach why did you step down?"

Bruce Arians explains why he stepped down as head coach

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Bruce Arians recently explained why he stepped down as head coach. Arians said his initial decision to stay with the team was due to him not knowing if Brady was coming back for another season and that he didn't want to hand Todd Bowles a team without an established quarterback. But once Brady had confirmed his return, the situation changed.

During a recent conversation with the Tampa Bay Times, Bruce Arians explained that he was already leaning towards retiring.

Arians said:

"It was time for the whole situation to change. The narrative had to change. I was very upset with the hiring cycle. I was going the other way. I was thinking he wasn’t going to play. I was thinking about who are we going to get? Who wants to trade? There wasn’t anybody to draft. That was obvious. Me, to the public, I was fine with the two we had: Blaine (Gabbert) and Kyle (Trask)."

Brady also recently addressed rumors of a falling out with Bruce Arians, claiming them to be false.

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