Saints’ Brees sees playoff clash with Brady’s Bucs as fate
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew Brees periodically discusses his long, extraordinary NFL journey in terms of fate and destiny. The Saints quarterback says, for example, that his career-threatening throwing shoulder injury at the end of the 2005 season was meant to be. It precipitated his departure from the Chargers and move to New Orleans, where […]
BVM Sports Chalk Talk: Episode 12
The divisional round of the NFL Playoffs are here. Will the Rams defense be strong enough to limit the Packers offense? Can the Bills hold off the Ravens at home? Do the Chiefs have anything to be worried about against the Browns? Do you trust Drew Brees or Tom Brady more the third time around?
Bucs, Browns, Bills out to follow footsteps of champ Chiefs
Aside from winning the final Super Bowl before the merger in 1970, the Kansas City Chiefs’ biggest claim to fame for over half a century was team founder Lamar Hunt coining the phrase Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes changed all of that a year ago when he led a furious fourth-quarter rally that sent the Chiefs […]
Brady vs. Brees: A matchup for the ages and aged
The NFL has never seen a playoff matchup quite like the upcoming one between Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Drew Brees’ New Orleans Saints. A pair of quarterbacks in their 40s still thriving on the playoff stage at an age when nearly every other great passer in NFL history was already enjoying retirement. Brees […]
Brady outduels Heinicke, leads Buccaneers past Washington
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — New team, same swashbuckling playoff success for Tom Brady. Brady threw for 381 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers past Washington 31-23 in their NFC wild-card game Saturday night for their first playoff victory since the 2002 season. Brady was critical of his play and the offense’s […]
Bucs and Browns reach territory Tom Brady visits annually
Let’s see: Tom Brady and his six Super Bowl rings versus a 7-9 division winner. Need we say more? Well, yes. Washington’s NFC East triumph is nothing to scoff at despite the losing record. A franchise in turmoil because of off-field issues that released the supposed building block at quarterback late in the season has […]
Rodgers leads Pack to top of NFC after draft disappointment
The NFC playoff field features the usual cast of quarterbacks in Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees and Russell Wilson. Now there’s also Tom Brady, who tormented the AFC field for two decades in New England. The six-time Super Bowl champion left the Patriots for the Buccaneers last spring and led Tampa Bay to its first playoff […]
BVM Sports Chalk Talk: Episode 11
Which AFC quarterback will pick up their first playoff victory? Which NFC team could pull off a Wild Card upset? How can Ohio State knock off Alabama like they did in the 2015 Sugar Bowl?
Tom Brady excited, ready to lead Buccaneers into playoffs
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — New team, same ole Tom Brady. The six-time Super Bowl champion who left New England for sunny Florida is in the playoffs for a NFL-record 18th time in 21 years, and eager to build on an ever-expanding legacy in his first postseason appearance with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Bill Belichick and […]
Brady throws for 4 TDs, Bucs pull away from Falcons 44-27
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady threw for 399 yards and four touchdowns Sunday, helping the playoff-bound Tampa Bay Buccaneers clinch the fifth seed in the NFC with a 44-27 regular season-ending win over the Atlanta Falcons. The victory, which means the Bucs (11-5) will face the NFC East champion, Washington or the Giants, on […]