Tom Brady signs with Bucs: Only team happier than Tampa Bay? Buffalo Bills

Has any team had a better offseason thus far than the Buffalo Bills? The club traded for excellent Vikings receiver Stefon Diggs, and signed solid players in free agency such as cornerback Josh Norman, defensive ends Mario Addison and Quinton Jefferson, and defensive tackle Vernon Butler. Running back Melvin Gordon could be the next addition. However, the Bills are the winners of the NFL offseason because of a player they had nothing to do with: Tom Brady.

Brady officially signed a two-year, $60 million contract on Friday with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, leaving the AFC East for the first time in his career. Since Brady took over as New England's starting quarterback early in the 2001 season, the Patriots won the division every year but 2002 and 2008 (when Brady was lost to a season-ending injury in Week 1).

Buffalo, meanwhile, hasn't won the AFC East since 1995 – which, incidentally, is the last time the Bills won a playoff game. The Patriots are still favored on the William Hill NFL futures odds to win the AFC East this season, but just barely at +100 over Buffalo (+140), and the Bills could well jump into the favored role if they add Gordon (Brady's Bucs also could get him). It also will depend on what the Patriots do at quarterback.

To say Brady has dominated the Bills in his career is juuuussst a bit of an understatement. He started 35 games against them and was 32-3 SU with an average margin of victory of 12.4 points. Brady completed 63.9 percent of his passes for 8,669 yards, 70 touchdowns and 20 picks for a rating of 97.9.

In the past 30 meetings, the Patriots were 17-11-2 against the spread on the NFL picks in the series. Buffalo's last straight-up win came the last time Brady missed a game in it: Oct. 2, 2016, when the Bills were 16-0 winners in Foxborough against Jacoby Brissett. Brady was serving a four-game suspension for Deflategate.

Buffalo's most recent win before that also has an asterisk as it was Dec. 28, 2014, by a score of 17-9 in Foxborough. Brady started but didn't play very long as the Patriots had their playoff seeding locked up. Thus, the last true Buffalo win over Brady was at home on Sept. 25, 2011. Brady threw for 387 yards and four touchdowns but was picked off four times in a 34-31 loss to the Ryan Fitzpatrick-led Bills.