Javier Trejo Garay anticipates what awaits us in the game to define the NFL champion between Kansas City and Tampa Bay
Dear friends of ESPN, We have one last game ahead of us to lower the curtain of the 2020 season and this game is the most important.
Tell them that for first time a team will play a Super Bowl at home, This is nothing new. There has been no talk of anything else in the last few hours.
But let me emphasize the irony that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, The reigning National Conference champion, played three away games this postseason and wanted the “destiny” of the most important game played at home, at Raymond James Stadium.
If they allow me to just emphasize that Bucs they will be local “locals”.
As many of you know the “local” at the Super Bowl alternates every year. One year it is up to the champion of the Americana and the next to the one of the National to exert like administrative premises. This could be a trifle for the Buccaneers because they will be playing this game at home anyway, but the benefit in this case is that they will be able to choose the color of uniform with him that they will play.
More ironically, the seeded team No. 5 of the National, as they finished Bucs in the regular season, they will host a team that finished with a better mark than that, 14-2 of the Kansas City Heads.
In the other hand, Tampa Bay has just beaten him in consecutive weeks at No. 2 and No. 1 in the National Conference, New Orleans Saints and Green Bay Packers, now go by the number of the American.
The of Heads beating the Buffalo Bills is by no means a surprise. KC finished with the best record of his Conference, is the current champion and has been playing Conference Championship Games for three years, which gives him more experience of his unquestionable talent.
In fact, for Sunday, February 7, they should be put as a favorite, although I would not be so sure to bet against the Bucs.
The most recent background
Tampa Bay i Kansas City the faces were seen in Week 12. In that game Patrick Muhammad, had one of his formidable afternoons and finished with 462 yards on air and three touchdown passes.
For his part, Tom Brady finished with 345 yards, three touchdown passes, but two interceptions.
Ni Bucs ni Heads exceed 90 yards per floor.
Although in the statistics they dominated the Heads, They won just 27 to 24.
No match is like another. We do not expect the same for this February 7, especially because Tampa Bay he has improved a lot in the second half of the season, by the way, finishing with seven straight wins, including postseason.
Do you know which team was their last defeat? Effectively against the Heads in that Week 12.
That if Tom Brady suffered with three interceptions in the game against the Packers, it was the defense that stopped Aaron Rodgers, it is true. But it is also true that TB12 will play its tenth Super Bowl.
I honestly don’t know if this generation will ever be able to see anything like it.
Another good story is precisely the duel between Brady vs. Muhammad, one 43 and the other 25. Or the duel to follow on the sides between two great head coaches such as Andy Reid of the Heads and Bruce Arians of Tampa Bay, For me both in the NFL Top-5 Coaches.
Reid takes advantage by having played more postseason games and being the coach of the champion team.
Tampa finished with the best defense against the race in the regular season, which suggests as we saw in Week 12, that the responsibility will fall on the arm of the prodigious Muhammad, the quarterback with the largest repertoire of passes and skill in the league.
On the Tampa side, Brady showed that he still has “quite a bit left in the tank” and while he had a chiaroscuro afternoon in the win over Green Bay, his experience, leadership and ability would continue to weigh on him, many like him. or not.
Another factor in favor of those of Tampa Bay is that they have a healthier ground attack and Kansas City it was a more permissive team following grass.
Tampa’s defense with extraordinary and aggressive elements such as Jason Pierre-Paul, Ndamukong Suh, Shaquil Barrett and Devin White will test the capabilities of an offensive as explosive as that commanded by Muhammad, but also has perhaps the best closed wing and Travis Kelce, Tyreek Hill, Mecole Hardman, Clyde Edwards-Helaire. That is, the matchup I think will be in that combination.
Finally, if you allow me another irony or coincidence is that three teams of Tampa Bay explaining to Buccaneers they reached the final in their respective leagues.
Tampa Bay Lightning was champion in the NHL, the Tampa Bay rays they lost the MLB World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Can these Bucs match the Lightning or will they share the outcome with the Rays?