NFL Playoff Thread - Brady's Last Game?
Mates,
Divisional round finishes today with the following:
@ Tampa Bradys 3.0 LA Staffords 3:00 on NBC
@ K.C. 1.5 Bills 6:30 on CBS
I hadn't thought about it until today, but there is a chance, maybe even a significant chance, that this is Tom Brady's last game. He has said he would take a month after his season ends to make a decision, but at 44 yrs old with 10 (!) Super Bowls and 7 (!!!) Championship Rings, I mean, what's left if you don't get over the hump today? Should be a good game. I'd guess nearly all of us wish Matt Stafford well, glad he won last week, but can he get by the GOAT?
And that KC v. Buffalo game could be a barn-burner, too. The way Josh Allen was en fuego last weekend was pretty impressive. Sunny and cool in K.C. so weather not a big deal to those teams, unlike last night's game in Green Bay on the frozen tundra.
Our boys in Blue play IU at 3:30, so lots to keep track of. Commence furious switching back and forth when tip-off arrives.
Have a fine Sunday.
XM
January 23rd, 2022 at 2:48 PM ^
Taking the underdogs today
BUF over KC
LA over TB
Really just want to see some more great games. Yesterday was fun.
January 23rd, 2022 at 2:54 PM ^
yesterday was fun. both games decided on their respective last plays. that has to be pretty rare or maybe even a 'first' in the NFL playoffs.
January 23rd, 2022 at 2:54 PM ^
Will root for Tom until he retires.
And regardless, I think he plays out the final year of his contract and next year is his last year.
45, like he said, allows the Bucs to find a QB via the draft or free agency. And not that he wants them, a chance to give him his flowers.
If he comes back, the NFL needs to pull an NBA and get Bucs @ NE late in the year next year (I know the NFL doesn't do its schedule like that and opponents have already been announced).
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:04 PM ^
I'm rooting for Stafford. I love Brady but after watching Stafford suffer in Detroit I'm really rooting for him to win a championship.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:42 PM ^
It’s too bad they couldn’t be meeting in the Super Bowl.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:04 PM ^
Probably doesn't want to play for BUCS HC anymore...
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:07 PM ^
If Tom Brady wins the super bowl this year he might earn his right to be in the GOAT conversation.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:12 PM ^
Makes sense, you have to have a minimum of eight Super Bowl victories to be in that conversation.
/s
January 23rd, 2022 at 5:43 PM ^
If he doesn't Arians needs to bench him so we can finally see what Henson can do
January 23rd, 2022 at 6:05 PM ^
I chuckled
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:13 PM ^
Mates and Limeys,
Will Stafford have a Lions flashback?
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:19 PM ^
So far he’s looked good. Pulling for Brady, but if the Rams win, I will gladly root for Stafford.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:19 PM ^
You shut your whore mouth!
January 23rd, 2022 at 5:12 PM ^
Brady’s last game?!?! No way!!
edit: (checks score in 3rd quarter) Yikes!
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:20 PM ^
I've got Bills n Bucs.
I think Mahomes has been too inconsistent this season, and he struggles.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:21 PM ^
Duplicate
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:23 PM ^
Rams looking good early! But can't settle for field goals against TB12.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:25 PM ^
Rams D has absolutely stoned the bucks so far. Two running plays and then four straight bad offensive plays after that. You are talking about the goat, but he’s going to have to goat pretty seriously today if they’re going to win.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:26 PM ^
I hope TB wins out and then calls it a career. If I can't have that, I want a SF-CIN SB matchup, 40 years after the first one,
TB should ride off into the sunset either way, if only to upstage Rothlisberger at the 2027 HOF like Woodson did to Manning last summer. (I might be being petty.).
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:40 PM ^
40 years ago in the Silverdome. The dome was only a few years old. The first time the game was held in a cold weather city, I believe. I was a senior in HS. Man, how time flies...
January 23rd, 2022 at 5:37 PM ^
Yep. I was in my Kent Dorfman year of college.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:26 PM ^
Rams winning line play so far. If that continues this will get ugly.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:28 PM ^
Bucs missing Wirfs at LT and Jansen is playing hurt.
That is a recipe for absolute disaster against Aaron Donald and Von Miller. Those guys get to tee off on every snap now, and they dominate even against fully healthy lines anyway.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:28 PM ^
JPP is my favorite 8 fingered d lineman
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:28 PM ^
Double post
January 23rd, 2022 at 5:58 PM ^
No politics
/s
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:29 PM ^
I would like TB12 to have more NFC championships than Rodgers
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:31 PM ^
Would be surreal if this is indeed Brady’s last game, but if the Bucs get whipped today or get beat soundly I can’t image Brady would want to end his career on that note.
Gun to my head, unless they win it all again this season, Brady announces he’s coming back for one last season in 2022-23. His own last dance for unfinished business.
January 23rd, 2022 at 4:11 PM ^
Yeah I don't think he'll hang it up either. He put in a top-3 QB and MVP-conversation caliber season. I don't know what the Bucs have coming back in terms of talent, but when healthy, this team was strong and he definitely had a chance to win again.
I keep thinking about Peyton's last season and how he couldn't throw the ball 15 yards down field 2-1 INT to TD ratio his final season. Brady is a borderline MVP and he's gonna hang em up?
At this point I assume Brady comes back until he doesn't. He could be 55 years old and getting AARP newsletters and senior discounts on coffee at McDonalds and I'd still believe. What evidence is there he wont, right?
January 23rd, 2022 at 4:34 PM ^
I know Godwin is a FA. Not sure about anyone else.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:31 PM ^
Touchdown Rams
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:32 PM ^
Cooper Kupp
Why does his name make me chuckle? Can't help it.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:39 PM ^
He should be a character with Koopa Troopa.
January 23rd, 2022 at 4:37 PM ^
Best Kupps on the market. Protect the boys.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:35 PM ^
Tamp’s defense doesn’t look so good
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:37 PM ^
Brady activates cheetah mode -- escapes rusher.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:37 PM ^
Last game????? Blasphemous I tell you!
January 23rd, 2022 at 4:29 PM ^
It was just a question, but even if the bucs get this fumble recovery here at the end of the first half it unfortunately could be prophetic.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:40 PM ^
Love how Suh jumped all in Stafford's face and a few plays later, Stafford throws for a TD.
January 23rd, 2022 at 3:46 PM ^
Fuck yeah! Good for Stafford!
January 23rd, 2022 at 4:03 PM ^
Brady is pissed off now -- look out!
January 23rd, 2022 at 4:07 PM ^
January 23rd, 2022 at 4:09 PM ^
Don’t think it is going to matter. Bucs just can’t block Rams.
January 23rd, 2022 at 4:05 PM ^
Lol poor Bucs
January 23rd, 2022 at 4:23 PM ^
No Tom ouch
January 23rd, 2022 at 4:27 PM ^
The Bucs have mailed it in at halftime
January 23rd, 2022 at 4:28 PM ^
Ouch, maybe not his last game, but it's his last this year.
Rams D-line too much.
Stafford doesn't through the Mo-Town pick six anymore.
January 23rd, 2022 at 4:39 PM ^
Had Stafford moved to an actual football team sooner, we'd likely be rating him with the all time greats.
January 23rd, 2022 at 5:43 PM ^
Agreed. I get he's got a lot of INTs and "bad decisions" on his resume but how much of that maybe gets fixed whole playing for an annual contender.