Tom Brady’s Super Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers travels to New England Sunday night to take on Bill Belichick’s Patriots on Brady’s first trip to Foxboro since leaving in the 2020 offseason; Watch the Sky Sports NFL live stream at 1:20 pm Monday morning
“This has to be the most anticipated game in NFL history!”
Brady’s return to Foxboro Sunday night, a place he has called home for 20 years and where he won six of his record seven rings, has been dubbed Super Bowl 55 and ½ – it just matters so much!
This does not look like a typical match in the fourth week of the regular season. This is homecoming, this is a revenge game, and it will be a record (probably for several reasons).
The first entry on the radar; Brady is set to become the NFL’s undisputed passing leader, only needing 68 yards to get past Drew Brice’s 80,358 mark, who, to add a little extra stellar power to the process – as if this game needed it – will be there. on the night with NBC.
It is somewhat poetic that the stars making up the chart have aligned to allow Brady to break the record in front of his adoring New England believers. But it is also perhaps a bit harsh on home support, serving as a reminder of what they have lost.
🔊 “Hello from the other side.” 🎵🎶@ Adele@TomBrady returns to New England this Sunday night when his @Buccaneers take over @ Patriots on @SNFonNBC! 🏈💪
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Brady’s stock, despite his advanced years, only rose after his somewhat abrupt departure from the Patriots. He led the Bucs to Super Bowl success in their first season with the team when they beat defending champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9 in an exhibition game back in February.
The Tampa team is admittedly full of talent, but Brady is far from the others. He is arguably the best football of his legendary career at the age of 44, and even hinted that he might live to be 50!
Brady leads the NFL with 10 passes this season, bringing his 23 games total with the Buccaneers (including the playoffs) to 60. That’s five more than he had in the last two seasons with the Patriots (55 out of 36 games ), while New England is tied with the New York Giants for the fewest passes (14) since Brady arrived in Tampa to kick off the 2020 season.
The team he left has since been plagued by an identity crisis: last year the Patriots went down to their first losing season (finishing 7-9) since Brady came in as a rookie sixth-round draft pick in 2000. year.
